The nomothetic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______whereas the idiographic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______.

Related Mcqs:

1. ________ approach emphasizes the role of instinctual processes and their modification in the course of interaction with the society.

   A. Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
   B. Cognitive Approach
   C. Holistic Approach
   D. Stimulus-Response Behaviouristic Approach

2. Saima often has temper tantrums and pouts when she can’t have her own away. She often behaves impulsively and becomes extremely impatient if she can’t have the things that she wants immediately. According to Freud’s view of the personality, Saima’s personality appears to be dominated by:

   A. her id
   B. her alter ego
   C. her ego
   D. reaction formation

3. Personality theorists believe there may be______factors or very board dimensions that make up a person’s personality.

   A. 3
   B. 10
   C. 7
   D. 5

4. The strongest support for the theory that personality is heavily influenced by genetics is provided by strong personality similarity between:

   A. identical twins reared together
   B. identical twins reared apart
   C. fraternal twins reared together
   D. non-twins reared together

5. If you know the personality of an identical twin, you can expect the personality of the other twin to be:

   A. unrelated
   B. similar
   C. identical
   D. conflicting

6. According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?

   A. Competencies
   B. Goals and values
   C. Affects
   D. Encodings

7. The approach-approach conflict involves ____________?

   A. A stable equilibrium
   B. An unstable equilibrium
   C. An oscillation of (A. and (B.
   D. Neither (A. nor (B. (C.
   E. None of these

8. This approach on only acknowledges that other bases than be scientific approach exit, but consciously attempts to use other approaches, This style acknowledges that the norm is an opinion-based on theoretical perspective and not an axion. The basic assumption of the style is that there are ever-expanding______________programmers:

   A. Educational
   B. Research
   C. General
   D. Informational

9. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classifies people according to personality types identified by:

   A. Carl Rogers
   B. Albert Bandura
   C. Carl Jung
   D. Abraham Maslow

10. Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.

    A. 1 & 2
    B. 3 & 4
    C. 1 & 3
    D. 2 & 4