Personality Assessment Quiz 3 (12 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

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1. ..... refers to the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors

Correct Answer: A) Reciprocal Determinism.

2. The perceived lack of control that a person develops from repeated inescapable adverse events

Correct Answer: B) Learned helplessness.

3. "The ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality" Which of the following is true for the above statement?

Correct Answer: B) Defense Mechanisms.

4. He organized needs into a hierarchy with the top being self-actualization

Correct Answer: C) Abraham Maslow.

5. The act of banishing anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings and memories from consciousness

Correct Answer: A) Repression.

6. Scientific personality assessment can be done using the techniques below, except.....

Correct Answer: B) Read the zodiac.

7. An individual's sense of self worth is referred to as

Correct Answer: D) Self-esteem.

8. Redirecting impulses to a less threatening object

Correct Answer: A) Displacement.

9. A person's characteristic pattern of behavior

Correct Answer: B) Trait.

10. In Erikson's psychosocial theory, the formation of trust and attachment to the world around an individual is formed during.....

Correct Answer: D) Now.

11. A statistical technique used to identify clusters of related items is called

Correct Answer: B) Factor analysis.

12. The SUPEREGO is driven by the

Correct Answer: B) Moral principle.