The psychologists who developed the inkblot test was:
A. Piaget B. Freud C. Rorschach D. Jung
Personality Psychology MCQs
According to Freud, children develop unconscious sexual desires for the parent of the opposite sex during the_______stage.
A. latency B. phallic C. oral D. anal
A person who is careless and disorganized most clearly ranks low on the Big Five trait dimension of:
A. extraversion B. openness C. emotional stability D. conscientiousness
Athletes often attribute their losses to bad officiating. This best illustrates:
A. learned helplessness B. the spotlight effect C. self-serving bias D. an Electra complex
Martin Seligman advocates a positive psychology, which focuses on topics such as:
A. external locus of control B. projection C. optimism D. the Barnum effect
All of the following are examples of objective tests Except the:
A. MMPI-2 B. NEO-PI C. BFQ D. TAT
A young man explained that he did poorly on his exam because his eyes hurt the test was unfair, and he did not feel the subject was important anyway. The young man is using what type of defense mechanism?
A. rationalization B. fantasy C. projection D. displacement
According to Rogers, for a child to develop a healthy personality, the parents must:
A. avoid the use of punishment B. exhibit unconditional love toward the child C. create an atmosphere of intellectual stimulation D. present physical challenges to ensure healthy growth
Freud believed that at each psychosexual stage a different part of the body becomes:
A. id-fixated B. archetypical C. an erogenous zone D. a source for modeling
The term personality refers to:
A. her hereditary aspects of one’s emotional nature B. unique and enduring behavior patterns C. favorable and unfavorable personal characteristics D. charisma, character, or temperament