The term personality refers to:

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

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. 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

7. The term “reinforcement” refers to the pairing of ___________?

   A. CS and US
   B. CR and UR
   C. US and UR
   D. CS and CR

8. The term “germ cell” when used in genetics refers to ___________?

   A. Somatic cells
   B. Body cells
   C. Ova and sperm cells
   D. Both (A. and (B.
   E. None of these

9. The term schema refers to _____________________?

   A. a proposition
   B. a control process in long-term memory
   C. the mental representation of a concept
   D. None of these

10. The term ‘role- conflict’ refers to which one of the following situations?

    A. Two individual with conflicting interests try to work together
    B. An individual faces two or more conflicting expectations
    C. Two individuals with differing specializations try to do a similar kind of work
    D. None of the above