Exam 15: Personality and Social Interaction

Correlations between the preferences that individuals express for the ideal personality characteristics of their mates and the actual personality characteristics of their obtained mates are:

Which of the following is an example of the hardball manipulation tactic?

In the context of personality and the selective breakup of couples,which of the following is a salient feature of emotionally unstable individuals?

Husbands who score low on _____ tend to evoke anger in their wives by being condescending,neglecting and rejecting them,abusing them,committing infidelity,abusing alcohol,insulting her appearance,and exhibiting self-centeredness.

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways in which personality interacts with situations?

People who are married to someone who scores high on all of the following personality traits EXCEPT _____ tend to be more satisfied in their relationships than individuals whose spouses score low on this trait.

People who score high on Machiavellianism are more likely to pursue a:

Which of the following is an example of regression?

Kiara's 16-year-old son,Samuel,dislikes chopping vegetables.She wants him to help her in the kitchen and shows him different techniques of chopping through online videos.She makes Samuel feel that chopping is simple and a whole lot of fun and even promises to buy him a new chopping board and a set of knives.In this scenario,Kiara is most likely employing the _____ tactic of manipulation.

Francis,who is a miserable cook,is looking for a spouse who is a wonderful cook.Francis' preference for someone who cooks well best supports the _____ hypothesis on human mating.

According to George Kelly and Conley (1987),_____ has been the most consistent personality predictor of marital instability and divorce.

Botwin and colleagues found that individuals preferred mates with personality traits that:

The complementary needs theory states that individuals are attracted to those who:

Shy people engage in all of the following behaviors EXCEPT that they:

The manipulation tactic most commonly used by people low in emotional stability is:

Individuals who score high on sensation seeking scales prefer NOT to select situations that:

Unlike high-agreeable individuals,low-agreeable individuals _____.

According to the assortative mating phenomenon,individuals who score high on extraversion scales will prefer potential mates who score high on:

People consider personality traits mostly when they _____ friends.

Machiavellian strategies work best: