PSYC 332 - Chapter 7 & 8 (Trait Approach) Exam || With Multiple Choice Questions & 100% Accurate Answers
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PSYC 332 - Chapter 7 & 8 (Trait Approach) Exam || With Multiple Choice Questions & 100% Accurate Answers
PSYC 332 - Chapter 7 & 8 (Trait Approach) Exam || With Multiple Choice Questions & 100% Accurate Answers
A psychologist examines six personality tests. She suspects that four of the tests ar...
PSYC 332 - Chapter 7 &
2024
8 (Trait Approach) Exam
|| With Multiple Choice
Questions & 100%
Accurate Answers
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Approach) Exam || With Multiple Choice
Questions & 100% Accurate Answers
A psychologist examines six personality tests. She suspects that four of the tests are
really measuring the same personality trait and that the other two measure another
personality trait. What kind of research should the psychologist conduct to test her
hypothesis?
A. A field study
B. A case study
C. Factor analysis
D. Idiographic research - ANSWER - C. Factor analysis
Which of the following statements is true about the trait approach?
a. No major schools of psychotherapy have evolved from the trait approach.
b. Most trait researchers do not focus on predicting behavior.
c. Trait theorists place emphasis on identifying the mechanisms that determine
behavior.
d. The trait approach is the best approach for predicting change in personality. -
ANSWER - No major schools of psychotherapy have evolved from the trait approach.
Which approach to personality has relatively little to say about why people behave the
way they do?
A. Trait
B. Psychoanalytic
C. Behavioral/social learning
D. Cognitive - ANSWER - A. Trait
Which of the following is true about the trait approach to personality?
A. Trait researchers generally are not interested in understanding and predicting the
behavior of a single individual.
B. It is not easy to make comparisons across people with the trait approach.
C. The trait approach has been responsible for generating a number of useful
approaches to psychotherapy.
D. Trait theorists place a greater emphasis on discovering the mechanisms underlying
behavior than do theorists from other approaches to personality. - ANSWER - A. Trait
researchers generally are not interested in predicting the behavior of a single individual.
, Recent research on the "Big Five" personality factors uses an approach to
understanding personality similar to that advocated by
a. Raymond Cattell.
b. Carl Jung.
c. Gordon Allport.
d. Henry Murray. - ANSWER - Raymond Cattell
Recently, many researchers using factor analysis have uncovered what they believe to
be the number of basic personality factors. How many of these factors did they find?
A. Three
B. Five
C. Sixteen
D. Sixteen to 20 - ANSWER - B. Five
Traits were introduced into the field of personality psychology by
a. Raymond Cattell
b. Henry Murray
c. Gordon Allport
d. Hans Eysenck - ANSWER - c. Gordon Allport
One team of researchers improved its ability to predict behaviour from personality
measures by dividing participants into those for whom the trait is and is not relevant.
This approach is similar to that advocated earlier by
a. Raymond Cattell
b. Henry Murray
c. Gordon Allport
d. Hans Eysenck - ANSWER - c. Gordon Allport
Explanation: Central traits vs. Secondary traits
A man is said to have one personality trait that dominates his personality. Allport would
identify this personality trait as a
A. common trait.
B. central trait.
C. cardinal trait.
D. secondary trait. - ANSWER - C. cardinal trait.
Karen always approaches tasks in an organized, faithful manner. She persists at a
difficult job longer than most people and generally accomplishes more. Karen is
probably high in which of the Big Five traits?
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