Question 1

You are about to undergo delicate brain surgery that requires great skill on the part of the surgeon.As the surgical team wheels you into the operating room,you hope the surgeon has a high level of _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  ego
B)  extraversion
C)  self-efficacy
D)  superegoE) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 2

What do Abraham Maslow's and Carl Rogers's theories have in common?

Accepted Answer

A)  They are both stage theories.
B)  They focus on unconscious motivation.
C)  They believe that each human being is free to choose his or her own destiny.
D)  They both fit in the learning/cognitive perspective.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 3

Freud's refusal to believe his patients who said they were sexually molested as children is an example of _________.

Accepted Answer

A)  the horn effect
B)  unconscious motives
C)  interviewer bias
D)  the halo effectE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

Jung believed that there were two levels to the unconscious mind,the personal and the ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  collective
B)  animus
C)  anima
D)  preconsciousE) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 5

What is Freud's term for the primitive,biological side of personality?

Accepted Answer

A)  id
B)  ego
C)  superego
D)  preconsciousE) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 6

Probably the biggest problem with personality assessments by behaviorists is the _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  observer effect
B)  subject bias
C)  experimenter bias
D)  test biasE) A) and D)
F) C) and D) A

Question 7

Adoption studies focusing on the heritability of traits have _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  disputed the findings of twin studies
B)  been attacked for ethical reasons
C)  confirmed what twin studies have shown
D)  shown that twin studies have methods that need to be reexaminedE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 8

One of the dangers of taking online personality tests is ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  they are all invalid
B)  there is a small normative group
C)  there are too few of them
D)  there is no face-to-face contact to help put the results in perspectiveE) C) and D)
F) B) and D) D

Question 9

What did Raymond Cattell call the underlying traits that direct surface traits?

Accepted Answer

A)  source traits
B)  secondary traits
C)  background traits
D)  subordinate traitsE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 10

When one thinks of "value judgment" in relation to personality,one is thinking about ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  soul
B)  character
C)  temperament
D)  conscienceE) A) and D)
F) A) and C) B

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What do Abraham Maslow's and Carl Rogers's theories have in common?

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Freud's refusal to believe his patients who said they were sexually molested as children is an example of _________.

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Jung believed that there were two levels to the unconscious mind,the personal and the ________.

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What is Freud's term for the primitive,biological side of personality?

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You are about to undergo delicate brain surgery that requires great skill on the part of the surgeon.As the surgical team wheels you into the operating room,you hope the surgeon has a high level of _____.

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What do Abraham Maslow's and Carl Rogers's theories have in common?

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Freud's refusal to believe his patients who said they were sexually molested as children is an example of _________.

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Jung believed that there were two levels to the unconscious mind,the personal and the ________.

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What is Freud's term for the primitive,biological side of personality?

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Probably the biggest problem with personality assessments by behaviorists is the _____.

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