Exam 12: Personality-Part A

Bonnie is a good student,organized,self-disciplined,and very careful about turning her work in on time.According to the Big Five Factor Model of personality,Bonnie would likely score high on:

Some psychologists believe that high self-esteem arises primarily from:

Who would personality psychologists expect to have the MOST similar personality traits?

When she makes a high grade on a test,Cynthia says,"I studied hard and did really well on that test!" When she scores low,she says,"That test was unreasonable and the professor just can't teach!" Her reactions are an example of:

Psychoanalytic theory states that when a person's pleasure-seeking drives become psychologically stuck,or arrested,at a particular psychosexual stage,they are:

Abraham Maslow designed a hierarchy of needs,promoting the idea that basic physiological and safety needs must be satisfied before a person can focus on:

Chuck is a psychoanalytic psychologist who wishes to identify the inner dimensions of personality of his client.Which test or technique would Chuck MOST likely use?

A person's tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external in the environment is called:

The technique MOST widely used by psychologists to collect information about someone's personality structure is the:

fMRI scans reveal that the _____ is activated when people make judgments of whether they possess certain personality traits compared with judging whether the traits apply to someone else.

When her roommate asked Connie why she wasn't studying for a big test scheduled for the next day,Connie replied,"It doesn't make any difference whether I study or not.I just know I'll make a low grade because I have such bad luck." It is likely that Connie has a(n):

When Robyn sees a snake,she loves the graceful way it moves across the ground.Her friend Helen is so frightened by snakes that she goes out of her way to avoid seeing them,even in zoos.George Kelly would say that:

Schwartz and colleagues (2013)analyzed Facebook pages and standardized personality tests from the same people.They found that people who commented frequently about being "sick of" things on Facebook were more likely to score highly on which dimension of personality?

Scary movies excite Ben,terrify Sarah,and bore Amy due to differences in what George Kelly termed:

Women score LOWER than do men on:

Most self-report questionnaires consist of which type of answers?

Abby is a psychologist who studies personality.Which instrument would she MOST likely use in asking people about how they act or think in particular situations?

The owner of a restaurant asks his long-term bartender to describe the personalities of five new employees.The owner is MOST likely to hear:

The _____ is a personality test that reveals underlying motives and concerns of respondents and how the respondents see the social world through the stories they create about ambiguous pictures of people.

The projective personality test that uses individual interpretations of various shapes to identify someone's inner feelings is the: