This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Personality > Personality Assessment – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Personality Assessment Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The following is not a use of psychological assessment:..... A) Basis for decision making. B) Forming a picture or profile of the testee. C) Find out the testee's hobbies. D) Source of hypothesis checking about the testee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Find out the testee's hobbies. 2. Which of the five dimensions of personality focuses on whether an individual is reserved or sociable (Big Five-CANOE) A) Conscientiousness. B) Neuroticism. C) Openness. D) Extraversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extraversion. 3. The environment as a source of individual behavior is a principle of the theory..... A) Psychodynamics. B) Behavior. C) Humanistic. D) Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behavior. 4. Personality is a relatively persistent pattern in an individual regarding the following things, except ..... A) Emotions. B) Way of thinking. C) Behavior. D) Favorite activity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Favorite activity. 5. Personality is something which is unique in each individual. Characteristics of Personality EXCEPT ..... A) Be vigilant. B) Listen And Learn. C) Stand Up For Yourself. D) Seek Real Friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Be vigilant. 6. Testing a pool of items and selecting those items that discriminate between groups is called A) Empirically derived test. B) Factor analysis. C) Projective test. D) Reciprocal determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Empirically derived test. 7. The switching an unacceptable impulse into its opposite A) Projection. B) Displacement. C) Reaction formation. D) Rationalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reaction formation. 8. Which of the five dimensions of personality focuses on whether an individual is trusting or suspicious (Big Five-CANOE) A) Conscientiousness. B) Neuroticism. C) Openness. D) Agreeableness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agreeableness. 9. The realm of personality assessment that may be carried out by psychology graduates except..... A) Conduct interviews and observations. B) Administer inventory test equipment. C) Perform inventory scoring. D) Interpret graphic test results clinically. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interpret graphic test results clinically. 10. A projective test consisting of a set of ambiguous scenes is known as the A) Rorschach. B) Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). C) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. D) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). 11. Personality is thought to be ..... A) Short term and easily changed. B) A pattern of short-term characteristics. C) Unstable and short term. D) Long term, stable and not easily changed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Long term, stable and not easily changed. 12. His personality types were the basis of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator A) Martin Seligman. B) Sigmund Freud. C) Carl Jung. D) Abraham Maslow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carl Jung. 13. Providing self-justifying explanations for an action A) Projection. B) Displacement. C) Reaction formation. D) Rationalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rationalization. 14. Individual differences in characteristic patterns of ..... A) Joking, happy and concerning. B) Sad, crying and worrying. C) Remembering, valuing and thinking. D) Thinking, feeling and behaving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thinking, feeling and behaving. 15. Learned helplessness is term coined by A) Maslow. B) Seligman. C) Lazarus. D) Skinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seligman. 16. Collective unconsciousness and archetypes are terms related to ..... A) Adler. B) Freud. C) Horney. D) Jung. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jung. 17. The ID is driven by the A) Pleasure principle. B) Moral principle. C) Reality principle. D) Feedback principle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pleasure principle. 18. Which of the five dimensions of personality focuses on whether an individual is practical or imaginative (Big Five-CANOE) A) Conscientiousness. B) Extraversion. C) Openness. D) Agreeableness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Openness. 19. The tendency of people to overestimate the extent to which other people are noticing them is referred to as A) Self-serving bias. B) Spotlight effect. C) Learned helplessness. D) Reciprocal determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spotlight effect. 20. Which of the five dimensions of personality focuses on whether an individual is calm or anxious (Big Five-CANOE) A) Conscientiousness. B) Neuroticism. C) Openness. D) Agreeableness. 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