A. identical twins reared together
B. identical twins reared apart
C. fraternal twins reared together
D. non-twins reared together
Related Mcqs:
- Adopted children’s similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to_____________; adopted children’s similarity to their adoptive parents is generally attributed to____________________.
A. heredity; the environment
B. the environment; heredity
C. the environment; the environment
D. heredity; heredity - 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 - The theory of forgetting that stresses the similarity of items in memory is _________________?
A. decay
B. interference
C. consolidation
D. psychodynamic - Recent work in behavioural genetics has examined the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to human behavior. But which of the four assertions below is NOT true?
A. Research as shown monozygotic twins to have much more similar personality traits than dizygotic twins
B. Both adoption studies and twin studies are consistent with a genetic influence on personality
C. Adoption studies have shown that environment plays no part in the development of personality
D. Children who are genetically more active and impulsive can cause their parents to be more responsive to their needs than other children - Which of the following coefficients of correlation indicates the strongest relationship between two sets of variables?
A. -0.98
B. 0.90
C. 0.00
D. 1.20 - 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 - 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 - 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 - The nomothetic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______whereas the idiographic approach to personality emphasizes that people are_______.
A. Introverts: extroverts
B. Extroverts; introverts
C. Similar; unique
D. Unique; similar - 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
