Exam 6: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior

A researcher who starts with an interest in delinquency and then identifies the traits associated with that category of behavior is taking a ________ approach.

What are essential traits according to Jack Block?

Negative emotionality in Tellegen's three-factor model is closest to which trait in Eysenck's model?

The ________ is a personality assessment device consisting of a deck of 100 cards,each of which describes an aspect of personality.These cards are sorted into categories by the respondent.

In order to alleviate the effects of bias in employment testing,employers might want to use ________ because they typically do not show racial or ethnic differences.

Match the most associated trait factor with each facet. -Hostility

Match the most associated trait with each behavior or emotional outcome. -Charming demeanor

What are the essential traits according to Hans Eysenck?

Which dimension of personality assessed by the Narcissistic Personality Inventory appears to be the one most responsible for obnoxious and arrogant behavior?

Which trait describes people who are psychologically well adjusted and tend to be religious?

Which essential trait theorist developed a model with the strongest ties to psychoanalytic ideas?

Match the most associated trait with each behavior or emotional outcome. -Creative hobbies

Which of the following is NOT a currently discussed explanation for narcissistic behavior?

Match the most associated trait with each behavior or emotional outcome. -Higher grade point average

People who adjust their behavior to best fit the situation are called ________,and people whose behavior is guided by their personality are called ________.

Given Snyder's description of self-monitoring,you would expect someone who is low in self-monitoring to be ________ than someone high in self-monitoring.

According to a relatively recent study,which of the following is one of the reactions of individuals high on right-wing authoritarianism when playing experimental games?

Sally is seriously depressed at age 18.Research using the Q-sort suggests that as a child,she probably would have been described as ________.

The Big Five are believed to be orthogonal factors of personality.What does orthogonal mean?

Which Big Five domain captures a tendency to experience negative emotions?