Personality Psychology MCQs

A. Research as shown monozygotic twins to have much more similar personality traits than dizygotic twins B. Both adoption studies and twin studies are consistent with a genetic influence on personality C. Adoption studies have shown that environment plays no part in the development of personality D. Children who are genetically more active and impulsive … Read more

A. Introverts: extroverts B. Extroverts; introverts C. Similar; unique D. Unique; similar

A. Competencies B. Goals and values C. Affects D. Encodings

A. Extraversion B. Neuroticism C. Self-efficacy D. Self-regulation

A. Stable, global B. Unstable, specific C. External, global D. External, specific

A. The way we feel can determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur B. The way we feel can be determined by immediate responses to situations as they occur C. Feeling angry anxious or happy might impact on any of the other types of cognition, changing the way we respond D. A dispositionally … Read more

A. Attain the attributes of the ought self B. Attain the attributes of the ideal self C. Reduce discrepancies between the actual self and ideal self D. Reduce discrepancies between the actual self and ought self E. All of the above

A. External-internal B. Experimenting-conservative C. Neuroticism-stability D. Extraversion-introversion

A. Carver and Scheier’s control theory of human functioning states that there are stable individual differences in the extent to which we attend to aspects of the self B. In control theory, if we perceive ourselves to have reached too high a standard of behavior, the personality system will increase the discrepancy between the standard … Read more

A. PessimistsB. OptimistsC. NeuroticsD. Extraverts