Exam 13: Personality

Naoko is a university student from Japan and as part of a psychology research study has just taken a personality trait assessment. How is Naoko likely to rate herself on the dimensions of agreeableness and neuroticism, compared to the average university student in Canada?

If you were a parent who endorsed Carl Rogers's person-centred approach to personality, how would you treat your child?

In Eysenck's theory, psychoticism means:

Oren is a very rigid person and must have things his own way. Other people find his attitude annoying, but Oren refuses to change. In Freud's view, Oren is fixated at which stage of development?

Imagine that Eysenck has classified one of your roommates as an extrovert and the other as an introvert. When you come into the room you slam the door very loudly, surprising them both. Who would show more physiological arousal to this event?

Bandura's cognitive-social theory of personality sees ____________ as an important determinant of behaviour.

As a child, Erin was always getting into trouble with her parents because she liked to steal cookies from the cookie jar. She was not concerned with the consequences and would steal cookies even when she knew she might get punished. Erin's impulse is based in what Freud called:

Although specific genes seem to be involved in personality, the effects of these genes on behaviour are small. Why?

Broadly speaking, your textbook divides personality assessment procedures into ____________ measures.

Your friend says her dog, a cocker spaniel, has a very outgoing personality. On the basis of research reported in your textbook you argue that: