QUESTION 1What is personality, according to your text?
A) a person’s social skills
B) the reaction of a person to social forces
C) the underlying causes within the person of individual behavior and experience
D) the individual’s level of adjustment or mental health
QUESTION 2Which of the following kinds of questions are not addressed by personality theory?
A) questions about personality dynamics
B) questions about personality development
C) questions about personality description
D) questions about personality diffusion
QUESTION 3When we ask, “How is one person different from another?” we are asking questions about the
__________ of personality.
A) description
B) dynamics
C) development
D) destiny
QUESTION 4When we ask, “How do people adjust to their life situations?” and “How does their thought affect what
they do,” we are asking questions about the __________ of personality.
A) description
B) dynamics
C) development
D) destiny
QUESTION 5When we ask, “How do biology and experience influence a person from childhood onward?” we are asking questions about the __________ of personality.
A) description
B) dynamics
C) development
D) destiny
QUESTION 6Categories of people with similar characteristics are called
A) factors.
B) traits.
C) types.
D) sets.
QUESTION 7Hippocrates, in ancient Greece, described sanguine, melancholic, choleric, and phlegmatic
__________ of personality.
A) traits
B) types
C) dynamics
D) factors
QUESTION 8A measure in which a person is given a score on some dimension, for example, a score of 61 or 85 on
a 100-point scale of “traditionality”, is a __________ measure.
A) qualitative
B) quantitative
C) factorial
D) typological
QUESTION 9How can we describe personality?
A) Factors
B) Traits
C) Types
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
QUESTION 10Which of the following does not describe a trait?
A) Trait scores are discontinuous variables
B) A person is given a numeric score to indicate how much of a trait the person possesses
C) There are many traits to describe everyone
D) A person can be described on every trait.
QUESTION 11Which of the following does not describe a personality type?
A) Membership to a type is all or nothing.
B) A person belongs to one and only one category.
C) There are many different types to describe everyone.
D) A person fits into only one type.
QUESTION 12Like traits, factors are
A) broad.
B) quantitative.
C) qualitative.
D) developmental stages.
