Exam 13: Personality

How do the idiographic and nomothetic approaches to studying personality differ?

As part of the general testing done in your psychology class, you turn out to be very high on the trait of self-monitoring while your roommate scores low on this trait. What should others expect regarding the consistency in your and your roommate's behaviours?

Dr. Heinz's theory of personality relies heavily on Freud's ideas. Which of these techniques would Dr. Heinz be LEAST likely to use with someone?

A science teacher takes her class to a wildlife refuge so they can observe and record monkeys in their natural habitats. The teacher states that monkeys, like humans, have different personalities. The students think it is ridiculous to think that animals have "personality." Who is correct?

Who is most likely to adopt a nomothetic approach to the study of personality?

A plausible explanation for the apparent stability in personality after the age of 50 is that:

Dara recently was in a car accident and her doctor told her she may have mild frontal lobe damage. How will frontal lobe damage likely impact Dara?

In Eysenck's view, people who score high on the neuroticism scale tend to:

Temperamental differences in humans are primarily a function of:

Ahmed states that he has high self-esteem and is happy with his life. Based on this information, it is possible to predict:

Your professor believes that both emotions and expectations related to what might happen in the future strongly affect behaviour. In addition, events in the environment affect one's current expectations and emotions. From a theory of personality perspective, your professor is acting most like a ____________ theorist.

In Freud's structural model of personality:

In terms of the number of structures (e.g., the id) that Freud believed made up the mind, which other theory is most similar?

A widely held stereotype of Canadians' personalities is that they are low in neuroticism and high in agreeableness compared to people of other cultures. Research suggests that Canadians are:

If in your development you had become fixated at the anal stage (according to Freud's theory) which of the following would likely characterize your behaviour?

Katya prefers to be in calm and quiet environments. She feels both nervous and exhausted when she is in loud places with noisy people. In fact, she admits she would rather spend almost all of her time alone. In Katya, the ____________ is more active than the ____________.

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of temperament?

Janine loves to get attention in social situations. She often talks about herself and her many achievements (which she usually exaggerates), and believes others should perceive her as especially interesting, worthy, and valuable. Janine has:

Psychologists would label a disposition to act in a certain way over time and various situations:

Linden is a very resilient woman who uses her positive emotions to help her arrive at novel solutions to solve life problems and deal with setbacks and negative life experiences. Linden's behaviour is most directly explained by: