social personality theory

social personality theory

Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)

1. A is a conceptual tool for understanding certain specified phenomena.

a. theory
b. theoretical construct
c. psychological test
d. variable

2. Personality researchers use:

a. self-report measures
b. projective tests
c. behavioral measures
d. All of the above.

3. The unconscious is least likely to be revealed through:

a. the interpretation of dreams
b. humor
c. objective tests
d. free association

4. According to the text, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke in symbolic terms of the future potentials of the world because he was:

a. a minister
b. an intuitive type
c. black
d. an extravert

5. The archetypes that are closest to consciousness are the:

a. Great Mother and the Spiritual Father
b. Hero and the Trickster
c. Mandala and the Self
d. Shadow and the Anima (or Animus)

6. Organ inferiority, the aggressive drive, masculine protest, superiority striving, and perfection striving are:

a. stages that occur, one after the other, in the development of normal personality
b. stages that occur, one after the other, in the development of unhealthy personality
c. processes in the development of Adler’s thinking about personality
d. various diagnostic categories

7. The effects of birth order are:

a. consistently found, by research, to confirm Adler’s predictions
b. universal across cultures and socioeconomic levels
c. significant for achievement, supporting Adler’s theory, but not for other aspects of personality
d. often significant in research, but with varying effects in different studies

8. The task of infancy, in Erikson’s terminology, is to develop a sense of:

a. autonomy
b. the body
c. trust
d. attachment to the mother

9. Erikson’s theory implies that problems with technology are relevant to which stage of development?

a. second
b. fourth
c. sixth
d. seventh

10. The appeal of love is related to:

a. the self-effacing solution
b. the expansive solution
c. resignation (solution)
d. None of the above.

11. When Allport met Freud, what happened?

a. Freud analyzed Allport’s dreams.
b. Freud experienced a powerful countertransference.
c. Allport thought that Freud misunderstood him.
d. Allport proposed that he develop a test to measure Freudian defense mechanisms.

12. Which of the following is not listed by Allport as characteristic of a normal, mature adult?

a. warm human interactions
b. emotional security
c. realistic perceptions
d. financial success

13. Cattell classified projective tests, such as the Rorschach inkblot test, as:

a. D-data
b. L-data
c. Q-data
d. T-data

14. Imitating others is made possible biologically by:

a. mirror neurons
b. memory strategies
c. evolved psychological mechanisms
d. temperament

15. Children who cried and clung to their mothers, in Kagan’s studies, were called:

a. inhibited
b. neurotic
c. difficulty children
d. uninhibited

16. In addition to Freud’s first three psychosexual stages, Dollard and Miller described a fourth stage, concerned with conflict over:

a. anger
b. sex roles
c. siblings
d. playmates

17. Because they both thought in terms of privacy and power, Nixon and Kissinger could relate well to one another, according to Kelly’s Corollary.

a. Choice
b. Commonality
c. Modulation
d. Sociality

18. “Slot-movement” refers to:

a. radical changes, such as from atheist to “born-again Christian”
b. role changes, such as moving from being a student to being an employee
c. gambling
d. a method for scoring personality tests

19. Adam doesn’t know whether he will be thanked or criticized if he helps cook dinner. He is uncertain about:

a. self-efficacy expectancies
b. competencies
c. encoding strategies
d. behavior-outcome expectancies

20. “If I ask Jane to go to the movies, will she go, or reject me?” This is a question of:

a. reciprocal determinism
b. stimulus-outcome expectancies
c. behavior-outcome expectancies
d. self-efficacy expectancies

21. Bandura expanded learning theory by his work on the importance of:

a. extinction
b. generalization
c. modeling
d. punishment

22. The best guide to healthy growth, according to Rogers, is:

a. a professional psychotherapist
b. a religious philosophy of life
c. the organismic valuing process
d. careful reasoning

23. Adolescents who are creative are likely to have had parents who:

a. encouraged their children’s curiosity in early life
b. encouraged their children to control their emotions
c. were critical of them
d. helped their children with their work

24. Which of the following illustrates B-motivation?

a. jealousy
b. beauty, truth, and justice
c. focused attention
d. business

25. Buddhism traces its roots back about years.

a. 1000
b. 1500
c. 2500
d. 5000

Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)

1. Psychology attempts to understand human nature using the method of:

a. science
b. literature
c. intuition
d. philosophy

2. A 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

3. Personality dynamics includes which of the following?

a. adaptation to the environment
b. cognitive processes
c. cultural influence
d. All of the above.

4. Biological influences result in differences in styles of behavior and emotional reactions in infancy and afterwards. Which term best describes such differences?

a. personality
b. trait
c. type
d. temperament

5. Theoretical constructs are:

a. obsolete in modern personality theory
b. the concepts of a theory
c. used only in experimental research
d. used only in correlational research

6. A theory that offers practical strategies for improving human life is said to have:

a. comprehensiveness
b. applied value
c. generalizability
d. empirical verifiability

7. Which approach to reliability can be used if subjects are tested on only one occasion, using only one test?

a. test-retest reliability
b. alternate forms reliability
c. split half reliability
d. No reliability tests are possible with only one testing session.

8. Freud’s theory challenged our trust in:

a. conscious experience
b. science
c. therapy
d. hypnosis

9. According to Freud, a child who has been sexually abused and who cannot remember the experience:

a. is psychotic
b. is lucky, since the event cannot have produced any psychological damage
c. has suppressed the experience into the preconscious
d. has repressed the experience into the unconscious

10. According to Freud’s hedonic hypothesis, people seek:

a. consciousness
b. pleasure
c. ego
d. the opposite-sex parent

11. anxiety signals that id impulses may break through (overcome repression) and be expressed.

a. Moral
b. Neurotic
c. Reality
d. Hedonic

12. A person who borrows or merges his or her identity with someone else, such as a powerful parent, is using the defense mechanism of:

a. identification
b. projection
c. reaction formation
d. rationalization

13. Attitudes toward money are, according to psychoanalytic theory, related to development during the stage.

a. oral
b. anal
c. phallic
d. latency

14. What was Jung’s attitude toward scientific methods and language?

a. He praised scientific methods above literary methods.
b. He rejected science, saying it is unsuitable for understanding the psyche.
c. He accepted experimental science, but not survey methods.
d. He agreed with Freud’s opinion about science.

15. The persona is the aspect of personality that:

a. adapts to the world
b. is the basis for the true Self
c. deceives others
d. contains the sexual and aggressive instincts

16. Jung’s concept of the “collective unconscious” is controversial because:

a. it is difficult to operationally define
b. it suggests that personality is inherited, thus contributing to racism
c. it is contrary to the environmental emphasis of most of psychology
d. All of the above.

17. Jung understood religious symbolism in terms of the:

a. personal unconscious
b. collective unconscious
c. persona
d. diffusion hypothesis

18. Symbolic therapy techniques used by Jung included:

a. artistic creations
b. myths
c. attention to symbols
d. All the above.

19. An individual’s personality type, consisting of introversion or extraversion plus the dominant function, is called the:

a. character type
b. diagnosis
c. psychological type
d. genotype

20. According to Adler, the basic human motivation is to strive toward:

a. a better situation
b. sexual fulfillment
c. balance between the conscious and the unconscious
d. inner peace

21. In Adler’s theory, a superiority complex is:

a. a sign that a person has achieved a high level of mental health
b. a requirement to become a therapist
c. unhealthy
d. not mentioned

22. Which phrase did Adler use to refer to people who do not develop in a healthy way?

a. mistaken styles of life
b. psychologically underdeveloped
c. neurotic misfits
d. retarded

23. Which statement best describes the attitude of Adlerian psychologists toward parents?

a. Parents can learn to be more effective through training programs.
b. Parents have much less impact on their children than is generally supposed.
c. Parents should limit their families to no more than two children.
d. Parents know what is best for their children.

24. Adler described the youngest child as likely to be:

a. pampered or spoiled
b. high in social interest
c. deformed
d. rebellious

25. Which of the following is not one of Adler’s “tasks of life”?

a. love
b. reproduction
c. social interaction
d. work

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