Exam 11: Personality

If a personality test measures consistently every time it is given, we say that the test is __________.

The influence that external settings or circumstances have on the expression of personality traits is referred to as

In order to uncover his client's deeply hidden or unconscious wishes, thoughts, and needs, Dr. Ables is administering a personality test in which his client will describe ambiguous stimuli. This category of personality tests is called a(n) __________ test.

In order for a test to be considered a "good test," the test must be

The theories that attempt to learn what characteristics make up personality and how they relate to actual behavior are the __________ theories.

Raymond Cattell measured the visible features of personality, which he called surface traits, and found that these traits clustered together to form more basic traits, which he called source traits.

Most "personalities" involve a mix of costs and benefits with very extreme personality patterns often

Appreciation of beauty and excellence, gratitude, hope, humor, and spirituality describe the human strength, identified by Seligman and Peterson, called __________.

Colby and Carleton own a business. Most of their friends and colleagues would say Colby, who manages the business on a daily basis, is down-to-earth and conventional in his thinking, while Carleton is the "dreamer" and "big idea" partner, who is always coming up with new ways to promote and expand the business. Regarding the five-factor model, Colby would rate low and Carleton would rate high on the __________ dimension.

According to Rotter's social learning theory, the anticipation that making a response will lead to reinforcement is called

According to Dollard and Miller, which of the following are guided by cues so that they bring about a reward?

According to the Big Five model of personality, which is the best personality pattern?

The source traits identified by Cattell can be measured using a test known as the

Regarding introversion-extroversion, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Cattell used a statistical technique called factor analysis to reduce a large number of visible traits into 16 __________ traits, or factors.

Personality starts to stabilize at around age three and continues to "harden" well past age 50.

To group a person's numerous surface traits into 16 source traits, Raymond Cattell used a statistical procedure called __________.

The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was developed by personality theorist Henry Murray.

Classifying people into two or three types is more informative than rating people on a list of traits.

Contemporary psychodynamic theorists generally agree that some part of the human mind is unconscious and plays an important role in shaping human behavior.