Exam 12: The Individual Mind Personality and the Self

Michael grew up in an individualistic culture.He is most likely to ____.

Autobiographical and episodic memories are important components of self-knowledge;however,as one psychologist noted,"The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which ____ (Greenwald,1980,p.604)."

Which of the following is an advantage of personality inventories?

Surprisingly,research involving the use of a meta-analysis (Barrick & Mount,1991)found that there is rather little relationship between the Big Five trait of _____ and job performance.

Jim is on a diet.At his office,his co-workers often bring in donuts,cookies,and other snacks for the group.He has done fairly well in resisting the temptations each day.How does he likely feel by late afternoon?

Researchers have identified structural correlates in adult brains for four of the Big Five personality traits: extroversion,agreeableness,neuroticism,and conscientiousness.Describe the trait of openness.Why might this trait be the one that is not yet correlated with structures of the brain?

People with high self-esteem tend to have greater happiness and persistence because they ____.

To avoid the pitfalls of observation and interview,many psychologists turn to ____.

According to your text,what does the science of personality explore?

Increasingly,analysis of data from cell phones or social media provides personality psychologists with ___________________ snapshots of real behavior.

Which qualities best describe collectivism?

According to Walter Mischel,if a child experiences a particular situation,he or she will then respond with a unique,stable set of behaviors.These if-then patterns will be characteristic of an individual,leading to the stable characteristics we think of as ____.

Aaron,a premed student,received an A on his anatomy and physiology exam.He told his roommate that he had studied for the exam,and that it was just good luck that the professor had asked so many questions that he understood.Aaron appears to have ____.

Yanni is a very serious and capable medical student.At home with his mother,though,he becomes a joyous boy again,telling her stories about his classes and professors and making her laugh.This implies that the interpersonal self is ____.

Most efforts to study the effects of genetics on personality use ____.

Roger is 3 years old and very exuberant.His mother has little patience with him and is most accepting of him when he plays very quietly by himself.According to Carl Rogers's humanistic theory of personality,what is the most likely result of this upbringing?

Based on research (Gardner,Gabriel,& Lee,1999),which of the following is true?

Of the following topics related to Freudian theory,which is not currently a topic of research in psychological science?

East Asians have a much higher probability of having the S allele of the serotonin transporter gene than people living in many other parts of the world.There is a positive correlation between the percentage of S allele carriers and a culture's rating on a scale from individualistic to collectivistic.What does this correlation mean at the population level? How do individuals with the S allele vary from those with the L allele,individually and within societal context?

The text notes that Professor Jennifer Mather tested 44 octopuses systematically for their responses to stimuli such as being touched with a brush.What did she find?