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Personality Puzzle 8th Edition Test Bank

1. Which of the following is NOT part of the psychological triad?

a. behavior c. psychological health

b. thoughts d. feelings

ANS: C DIF: Easy REF: The Study of the Person

OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Remembering

2. Personality psychology and clinical psychology overlap most often when approaching which topic?

a. personality processes c. personality development

b. personality disorders d. None of the answer options is correct.

ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: The Study of the Person

OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Remembering

3. Personality psychology shares with clinical psychology

a. an emphasis on mental disorders and the treatment of psychological problems.

b. a common obligation to try to understand the whole person.

c. a requirement that psychologists be licensed.

d. the fact that both personality psychologists and clinical psychologists are usually in private practice rather than employed by universities.

ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Study of the Person

OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Remembering

4. Which subfield of psychology uses personality psychology to understand vocational interests and occupational success and leadership?

a. social c. developmental

b. cultural d. organizational

ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: The Study of the Person

OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Remembering

5. Which part of the psychological triad corresponds to cognitions about the self?

a. thoughts c. behaviors

b. traits d. disorders

ANS: A DIF: Easy REF: The Study of the Person

OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Understanding

6. Personality is an individual’s characteristic patterns of

a. behavior. c. thought.

b. emotion. d. All of the answer options are correct.

ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Remembering

7. The unique mandate of personality psychologists is to attempt to

a. identify and measure individual differences in ability and behavior.

b. determine the effect of the social environment on behavior.

c. explain whole, functioning persons and real-life concerns.

d. prevent or treat psychological personality disorders.

ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Remembering

8. Advocates of any particular basic approach to personality historically

a. claimed that their approach explains everything worth explaining.

b. admitted that other approaches have their good points.

c. proudly asserted that they have deliberately limited what they have chosen to look at.

d. claimed that approaches cannot be compared with each other.

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Remembering

9. In observing human behavior, it is impossible to

a. understand everything about a person all at once.

b. choose to limit what you look at in a person.

c. find patterns across different kinds of observation.

d. make any real progress toward solving the personality puzzle.

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Understanding

10. The purpose of a basic approach (or paradigm) is to

a. expand the range of data you consider.

b. integrate diverse perspectives.

c. limit inquiry to certain kinds of observations and patterns.

d. resolve contradictions in data.

ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Understanding

11. The phenomenological approach leads to which two directions of research?

a. humanistic and cross-cultural perspectives on personality

b. humanistic and social-learning perspectives on personality

c. cross-cultural and cognitive perspectives on personality

d. trait and cross-cultural perspectives on personality

ANS: A DIF: Easy REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Remembering

12. Personality psychologists who adhere to the ________ approach try to understand people by way of identifying, conceptualizing, and measuring the ways in which people differ psychologically from one another.

a. psychoanalytic c. cognitive

b. trait d. phenomenological

ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

13. Personality psychologists adhering to the ________ approach try to understand people by way of psychic energy, the workings of the unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal mental conflict.

a. psychoanalytic c. cognitive

b. trait d. phenomenological

ANS: A DIF: Easy REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

14. The personality paradigm that focuses on rewards and punishments is known as the ________ paradigm.

a. trait c. phenomenological

b. behaviorist d. psychoanalytic

ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

15. ________ theories of personality apply the insights and methods derived from the study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of personality.

a. Psychoanalytic c. Cognitive

b. Trait d. Phenomenological

ANS: C DIF: Easy REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

16. Psychologists following the phenomenological approach

a. focus on the workings of the unconscious mind and the resolution of internal mental conflict.

b. study how overt behavior is affected by rewards and punishments.

c. build theoretical models of how people process information.

d. are concerned with our conscious experience of the world and the consequences of having free will.

ANS: D DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

17. Which of the following MOST closely represents a focal topic of the trait approach to personality? a. understanding mental conflicts

b. measuring and conceptualizing individual differences

c. understanding the mind in terms of biological mechanisms

d. applying principles of behaviorism and social observation

ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

18. Which of the following MOST closely represents a focal topic of the biological approach to personality? a. understanding mental conflicts

b. measuring and conceptualizing individual differences

c. understanding the heritability of behavior and personality

d. applying principles of behaviorism and social observation

ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

19. Which of the following MOST closely represents a focal topic of the psychoanalytic approach to personality? a. understanding mental conflicts

b. measuring and conceptualizing individual differences

c. discovering how conscious awareness produces uniquely human characteristics

d. applying principles of behaviorism and social observation

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

20. Which of the following MOST closely represents a focal topic of the phenomenological approach to personality? a. understanding mental conflicts

b. measuring and conceptualizing individual differences

c. discovering how conscious awareness produces uniquely human characteristics

d. applying principles of behaviorism and social observation

ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

21. Which of the following MOST closely represents a focal topic of the learning and cognitive approaches to personality?

a. understanding mental conflicts

b. measuring and conceptualizing individual differences

c. discovering how conscious awareness produces uniquely human characteristics

d. applying principles of behaviorism and social observation

ANS: D DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

22. The task of an employer who attempts to identify dependable, conscientious, and hard-working job applicants is similar to the task of the ________ psychologist, who attempts to identify and assess individual differences.

a. psychoanalytic c. cognitive

b. trait d. behavioral

ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Applying

23. Jeff suspects that his roommate’s sexist jokes may indicate that his roommate has some hidden, unconscious hostility toward women or that he feels very insecure around women. Jeff’s analysis suggests a ________ approach to personality.

a. psychoanalytic c. phenomenological

b. trait d. behaviorist

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Applying

24. Which of the following is NOT one of the basic approaches to personality?

a. psychoanalytic c. assessment

b. learning d. phenomenological

ANS: C DIF: Easy REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

25. A major advantage of personality psychology is that it focuses on the whole person and real-life concerns, yet this can often lead to overinclusive and unfocused research. Which of the following is a major theme of your textbook that speaks to this conflict?

a. The personality puzzle will never be solved.

b. The One Big Theory (OBT) can account for everything in personality.

c. Great strengths are usually great weaknesses.

d. A single basic approach must be chosen on the basis of rigorous data analysis.

ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Understanding

26. According to Funder, in what way do personality psychologists appreciate individual differences?

a. They categorize and label people; that is, they pigeonhole them.

b. They appreciate rich individual differences because the person is the starting point of personality psychology.

c. They psychoanalyze people, because there are important differences in the unconscious.

d. They focus on how similar people behave in different situations.

ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Understanding

27. What is a major advantage of using a basic approach to study personality psychology?

a. It is the only approach that uses the scientific method.

b. It focuses on the unconscious mind.

c. It uses One Big Theory.

d. It is a systematic way to study specific patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

ANS: D DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Understanding

28. According to the text, personality’s greatest strength, understanding whole persons, is also its greatest weakness.

Which term describes this fundamental observation?

a. pigeonholing c. One Big Theory

b. psychological triad d. Funder’s First Law

ANS: D DIF: Easy REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Understanding

29. Which of the following is an expression of Funder’s First Law?

a. People vary in terms of their trait levels.

b. There are no perfect indicators of personality.

c. Characteristics that are strengths in one sense are weaknesses in other ways.

d. Individual differences should not be put into the “error” term in statistical analysis.

ANS: C DIF: Difficult REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Analyzing

30. Is narcissism always a bad trait?

a. No, narcissists are highly persuasive and often make competent leaders.

b. No, narcissists sometimes act kindly toward others.

c. No, narcissists are rigid in their ethical thinking.

d. Yes, it is associated with negative outcomes like exploitativeness.

ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Analyzing

31. What is one of personality psychology’s biggest advantages over other areas of psychology? a. It uses more rigorous methods.

b. It appreciates the uniqueness of the individual.

c. It created the One Big Theory to explain whole persons.

d. It focuses on the two most important aspects of the psychological triad.

ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Understanding

32. Why haven’t personality psychologists combined all paradigms into One Big Theory?

a. A theory that tries to explain everything would probably not provide the best explanation for any one thing.

b. The manageability of research programs would be lost.

c. The different basic approaches to psychology address the same sets of questions.

d. Applying principles of behaviorism helps reduce negative behaviors, making the cognitive approach the best one.

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.5 MSC: Remembering

33. The trait approach, the behaviorist approach, and the psychoanalytic approach

a. are irreconcilable and contradictory views of human psychology.

b. are all part of the One Big Theory (OBT).

c. all address the biological basis of human psychology.

d. address different sets of questions about human psychology.

ANS: D DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.5 MSC: Understanding

34. Funder writes that there are good reasons why personality psychologists have distinct theories versus One Big Theory. Which is NOT one of those reasons?

a. One Big Theory would undermine the smaller theories.

b. There is a trade-off between breadth and depth in theories.

c. There is, for now, no accepted One Big Theory.

d. Each theory offers a different perspective on personality.

ANS: A DIF: Difficult REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.5 MSC: Analyzing

35. Personality psychology emphasizes how people are ________, whereas subfields such as cognitive and social psychology emphasize how people are ________.

a. similar to each other; different from each other

b. different from each other; similar to each other

c. essentially good; essentially bad

d. motivated by unconscious forces; motivated by conscious forces

ANS: B DIF: Moderate

REF: Pigeonholing Versus Appreciation of Individual Differences

OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Remembering

36. One critique of personality psychology is that it “pigeonholes” people. What does pigeonholing someone mean?

a. psychoanalyzing people c. statistically analyzing results

b. prescribing medication d. categorizing and labeling people

ANS: D DIF: Moderate

REF: Pigeonholing Versus Appreciation of Individual Differences

OBJ: 1.5 MSC: Analyzing

37. What is the largest and most dominant approach in personality psychology today?

a. learning and cognitive c. psychoanalytic

b. trait d. biological

ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Remembering

38. One reason why behaviorism is so effective at changing behavior is that it ignores the possibility of

a. social interactions. c. cognitive mechanisms.

b. free will. d. evolution.

ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Remembering

39. What does Funder mean when he says that personality is coherent?

a. The personality of one person depends on the personality of those around him or her.

b. Clinical psychology is the most dominant subfield.

c. Strengths are often weaknesses and vice versa.

d. Each aspect of one’s personality depends on the other parts.

ANS: D DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.5 MSC: Understanding

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Match the personality approach with the most applicable research question. a. Applied

b. Biological

c. Learning

d. Phenomenological

e. Psychoanalytic

f. Trait

1. How do rewards affect social behavior?

2. How does unconscious conflict affect well-being?

3. What characteristics of individuals predict health?

4. Are there differences in neurotransmitter expression between people?

5. How do people from individualist cultures differ from others?

1. ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Applying

2. ANS: E DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Applying

3. ANS: F DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Applying

4. ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Applying

5. ANS: D DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Applying

Match the most relevant term with each definition. a. Psychological triad

b. Funder’s First Law

c. Pigeonholing

d. One Big Theory

e. Paradigm

f. Funder’s Second Law

6. Thoughts, feelings, and behavior

7. A basic approach to personality

8. Labeling and categorizing people

9. Great strengths are often great weaknesses.

10. A framework that can predict everything about human behavior

6. ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: The Study of the Person OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Understanding

7. ANS: E DIF: Moderate REF: The Study of the Person OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Understanding

8. ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: The Study of the Person OBJ: 1.3 MSC: Understanding

9. ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: The Study of the Person OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Understanding

10. ANS: D DIF: Moderate REF: The Study of the Person

OBJ: 1.5 MSC: Understanding

SHORT ANSWER

1. Explain why Funder believes that the basic approaches to personality are complementary and not competing explanations for understanding the psychological triad.

ANS:

Answers will vary.

DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Understanding

2. Funder argues that a basic approach that is good for explaining some elements of personality is usually poor at explaining other elements of personality. Provide an example of an aspect of personality that is well explained by one basic approach but not the others. Then identify limitations in that basic approach by pointing to other aspects of personality that are better explained by a different approach.

ANS:

Answers will vary.

DIF: Difficult REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.2 MSC: Applying

3. Identify and describe the basic approaches to personality outlined in Chapter 1. Why is it useful to have a basic approach?

ANS:

Answers will vary.

DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.2 | 1.3 MSC: Understanding

4. Explain the idea of the One Big Theory. Identify the disadvantages of establishing such a theory.

ANS:

Answers will vary.

DIF: Moderate REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.2 | 1.5 MSC: Understanding

5. Define Funder’s First Law and come up with your own example to illustrate it.

ANS:

Answers will vary.

DIF: Difficult REF: The Goals of Personality Psychology

OBJ: 1.4 MSC: Applying

6. Your text states that personality psychology is both the largest as well as the smallest subfield of psychology. Explain what this means.

ANS:

Answers will vary.

DIF: Moderate REF: The Study of the Person OBJ: 1.1 MSC: Understanding

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