Question 1

The first intelligence tests were devised by:

Accepted Answer

A)  Guilford
B)  Simon
C)  Binet
D)  Thurstone C

Question 2

Two of the following apply to a situational theory of personality:

Accepted Answer

A)  The situation in which the person operates has no great significance as far as per-sonality is concerned
B)  Ability and organizational conditions reflected in job demands, interpersonal con-tacts, and culture are considered
C)  Inborn and learned abilities, such as logical reasoning, linguistic and numeracy skills, awareness, and expertise are given due consideration
D)  Transactional analysis B

Question 3

People with an external locus of control are more likely to feel comfortable with jobs:

Accepted Answer

A)  In which uncontrollable factors play an important role
B)  In which they can delegate tasks to others
C)  That are highly structured with greater levels of compliance
D)  That are high on extrinsic motivation C

Question 4

The early tests by Binet and Simon measured intelligence in terms of:

Accepted Answer

A)  Physical age
B)  Chronological age
C)  Mental age
D)  None of these

Question 5

Traits that concern optimism, depression, and other energetic tendencies can be categorized as:

Accepted Answer

A)  Temperament traits
B)  Motive traits
C)  Stylistic traits
D)  Emotional traits

Question 6

Culture-fair intelligence tests:

Accepted Answer

A)  Attempt to neutralize the effects of forces that distinguish one culture or subculture from another
B)  Attempt to measure the factors that reflect cultural background rather than innate ability
C)  Result in an intelligence level that is computed using a formula correcting for the respondent's culture
D)  None of these

Question 7

People with a low self-efficacy:

Accepted Answer

A)  Are more likely to attribute failure to themselves and success to external factors
B)  Are more likely to reduce their effort or terminate an activity
C)  Are more likely to attribute success to themselves and failure to external factors
D)  None of these

Question 8

Which of the following is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  IQ scores are mainly determined by the environment in which someone is raised
B)  IQ scores can fluctuate over time
C)  IQ scores often lack reliability
D)  IQ scores are no more than an innate quality

Question 9

The "Big Five" factors are:

Accepted Answer

A)  Assertiveness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, nervousness, and openness
B)  Extroversion, introversion, neuroticism, psychotic, and emotional stability
C)  Extroversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness
D)  Introversion, selfishness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and intellect

Question 10

The therapeutic approach in which individuals try to make sense out of their experi-ence is:

Accepted Answer

A)  The behavioural approach
B)  The cognitive approach
C)  The projective approach
D)  The interpersonal approach

Question 11

Which is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Low self-monitors show a high degree of consistency in their behaviour, while high self-monitors change their behaviour to match each particular situation
B)  High self-monitors show a high degree of consistency in their behaviour, while low self-monitors change their behaviour to match each particular situation
C)  Low self-monitors have a low self-efficacy, while high self-monitors have a high self-efficacy
D)  Low self-monitors are critical towards their own behaviour, while high self-monitors are critical towards the behaviour of others

Question 12

The manipulation of the arrangement of blocks or pictures is part of the Wechsler:

Accepted Answer

A)  Verbal scale
B)  Performance scale
C)  Three-dimensional scale
D)  Spatial scale

Question 13

Allport puts traits into the following categories:

Accepted Answer

A)  Cardinal traits, central traits, and secondary traits
B)  Personality traits, ability traits, and emotional traits
C)  Primary traits, secondary traits, and subordinate traits
D)  Personality traits, temperament traits, and emotional traits

Question 14

Achievement differs from intelligence in that:

Accepted Answer

A)  It refers to grasping interpersonal relations
B)  It refers to a combination of intelligence and social status
C)  It refers more specifically to knowledge and skills that are acquired through training
D)  It refers to more general qualities of thinking

Question 15

Current personality research is dominated by:

Accepted Answer

A)  Allport's typology
B)  Jung's typology
C)  The Big Five factor theory
D)  Trait theories

Question 16

A researcher adopting the idiographic approach:

Accepted Answer

A)  Operates in the belief that the individual is not just a collection of separate traits, but a well-integrated organism
B)  Operates in the belief that the individual is a collection of separate traits that are integrated into one organism
C)  Operates in the belief that the individual can be described in terms of one or more variables of personality
D)  None of these

Question 17

Freud describes three levels of awareness:

Accepted Answer

A)  The conscious, the preconscious, and the post-conscious level
B)  The conscious, the unconscious, and the super-conscious level
C)  The conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious level
D)  The conscious, the unconscious, and projection level

Question 18

Which description is correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  The id gradually becomes able to protect the growing child from the internal threats from the super-ego
B)  The id consists of the inherited characteristics and can be viewed as a collection of instinctive desires, urges, or needs, all demanding immediate gratification
C)  The id gradually becomes able to protect the growing child from the internal threats from the ego
D)  None of these

Question 19

Kets de Vries and Miller identified five neurotic styles among managers:

Accepted Answer

A)  Detached, aggressive, compulsive, depressive, projective
B)  Paranoid, compulsive, depressive, projective, detached
C)  Illusive, aggressive, compulsive, dramatic, schizoid
D)  Paranoid, compulsive, dramatic, depressive, schizoid

Question 20

There are two fundamental approaches in the study of personality:

Accepted Answer

A)  The idiographic and the structural approach
B)  The psychoanalytical and the nomothetic approach
C)  The psychoanalytical and the behavioural approach
D)  The idiographic and the nomothetic approach

Exam 2: Personality and Intelligence