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Carl Rogers believed that conditions of worth can produce serious negative consequences for people by creating significant _____________ between self-perceptions and experience.


A) congruence
B) self-consistency
C) incongruence
D) inconsistency

E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

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When James became the class bully at the age of twelve, his friends just shook their heads. After all, his father has a violent temper and is very aggressive so what did they expect? Which perspective on personality might categorize a person this way?


A) Psychodynamic approach
B) Biological approach
C) Freudian approach
D) Humanistic approach

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Research evidence exists


A) for both stability and change in personality traits over time
B) for both a degree of stability and some capacity for change in personality traits across situations
C) that personality traits are stable over time but changeable across situations
D) that personality traits show both stability and change over time and across situations

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Elaine is participating in a study. Periodically she receives a text from the research team. She responds to the text by recording exactly what she was doing when she got the text. Elaine is giving a(n)


A) interview
B) personality scale
C) projective test
D) remote behavioural sample
E) likert-type response

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Jung believed humans possess a _______ unconscious based on their life experiences and also a __________ unconscious that consists of memories accumulated throughout the entire history of the human race.


A) collective; personal
B) personal; collective
C) inherited; collective
D) collective; inherited

E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

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Octavia enjoys being around others and is well-known for her social grace. She is warm and engaging with everyone she meets, regardless of whether the setting is the classroom, her workplace, a restaurant, or her own home. Since Octavia has a fairly stable way of relating to other people, we can say that her behaviour is probably


A) related to her desire for achievement.
B) a manifestation of a personality trait.
C) a manifestation of her superego.
D) a manifestation of her id.
E) related to her desire for acceptance.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

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The distinctive and relatively consistent ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize a person's responses to various life situations defines the concept of ________________.


A) self-efficacy
B) internalization
C) personality
D) self-verification

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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Eysenck's theory of personality included three dimensions: Introversion-Extraversion, Stability-Instability and Psychoticism-Self-Control.

A) True
B) False

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What cultural and gender differences have been found in self-concept research?

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Which of the following is one of the six principles for effective goal setting?


A) Decide punishments for missing goals
B) Set short-range and long-term goals
C) Leave the time span for goals open-ended
D) Set general emotional goals rather than specific behavioural goals

E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

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How does research evidence bear on the assumption of stability across time and across situations?

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A psychoanalytic theorist who wants to criticize humanistic theories of personality but does NOT want to be critical of his own perspective would most likely point out which of the following? Humanistic theories ________.


A) rely too heavily on people's conscious reports of their experiences
B) have too many concepts that are hard to operationally define
C) have failed to generate any additional research
D) engage in circular reasoning by confusing explanation and description

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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You really want to buy a new iPhone. But you can't seem to save enough money to get it. So you end up buying a cheaper flip phone and decide that the iPhone was not really that great and highly overpriced. According to Freud, this reflects the defence mechanism of


A) denial
B) projection
C) sublimation
D) reaction formation
E) rationalization

F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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What is one common criticism of psychoanalytical theory?


A) it does not consider the role of unconscious forces
B) it is difficult to test
C) it does not take into account environmental factors
D) it does not consider the role played by defense mechanisms
E) it only takes neurotransmitters into account in a very limited waay

F) C) and D)
G) D) and E)

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A student is very happy with life: The student is a persistent high achiever, is less susceptible to social pressure, and has very fewer interpersonal problems. The student has a ___________.


A) high self-esteem
B) low self-esteem
C) high self-concept
D) low self-concept

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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According to the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS) model, a consistent way of responding to similar situations is called a(n) ____________.


A) encoding strategy
B) competency belief
C) if-then behavioural consistency
D) reinforcement value

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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If you wanted to learn about someone's personality, one simple thing you could do would be to talk to him or her for a while and ask a few questions. Your method of learning about this person's personality is most similar to which type of personality assessment?


A) A projective test
B) An interview
C) A behavioural assessment
D) An oral personality test

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Which of the following approaches to personality is best able to resolve the apparent contradiction between the assumption that people's personalities are stable and research results indicating that people's behaviours are not particularly consistent over time or across situations? The ____________ perspective.


A) trait
B) psychoanalytic
C) social cognitive
D) behavioural

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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In the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS) , concepts such as self-efficacy and locus of control would most likely be placed in which of the following categories?


A) Encoding strategies
B) Goals and values
C) Expectancies and beliefs
D) Affects

E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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A central concept in Carl Rogers's theory is our consistent set of perceptions of and beliefs about ourselves referred to as


A) unconditional positive regard
B) the need for positive self-regard
C) the self
D) self-actualization

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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