PSYC 341 Quiz 6 Spring 2020

PSYC 341 Quizzes

Question 1

McCrae and Costa (1996) objected to earlier personality theories as relying too heavily ON

Question 2

Cattell and McCrae and Costa both used a(n) _____ of gathering data

Question 3

According to Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, which of the following statements is true of basic tendencies?

Question 4

Which of the following techniques is used by most researchers to identify personality traits?

Question 5

According to Costa and McCrae, maladjustment occurs when?

Question 6

Identify a true statement about characteristic adaptation as a core component of the Five-Factor Theory.

Question 7

 Individuals who score high on _____ tend to be anxious, temperamental, emotional, and vulnerable to stress-related problems.

Question 8

Which of the following is a characteristic of people who score high on the openness to experience factor in the Five Factor Model?

Question 9

The concept of humanity embodied by trait and factor theories is best described as

Question 10

Hans J. Eysenck insisted that only _____ major factors can be discerned by a factor analytic approach.

Question 11

Which of the following is not one of the postulates of basic tendencies?

Question 12

The ve factors of the Five-Factor Model have been found across cultures and show some permanence with

Question 13

People who consistently seek out dierent and varied experiences score high on

Question 14

People who score in the direction of agreeableness tend to be

Question 15

In Cattell’s inductive method of research,

Question 16

Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa agreed with Hans J. Eysenck that personality traits are _____ and follow a bell-shaped distribution.

Question 17

The principal dierence between basic tendencies and characteristic adaptations is their

Question 18

The advocates of the Five-Factor Theory favor the _____ rotation method of factor analysis.

Question 19

In the NEOPI (1992), Costa and McCrae revealed two additional trait dimensions. They were

Question 20

Which of the following was an ideal factor that allowed Costa and McCrae to investigate the question of how personality is structured?

Question 21

Which of the following is not one of the ve factors in the Five-Factor Model of personality traits?

Question 22

According to Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, _____ is dened as everything a person does, thinks, or feels across his or her whole lifespan.

Question 23

Although factor and trait theories are dicult to rate on several dimensions with respect to the concept of humanity, they clearly rate very high on

Question 24

The essence of basic tendencies is their basis in biology and their _____ over time and situation.

Question 25

According to the Five-Factor Model, _____ describes people who are ordered, controlled, organized, ambitious, achievement focused, and self-disciplined.

Question 26

Which is not one of the four levels of behavior organization recognized by Eysenck?

Question 27

Which of the following is not one of the personality assessments created and developed by Eysenck?

Question 28

According to Hans J. Eysenck, which of the following statements is true about people who score high on neuroticism?

Question 29

The people who most inuenced Eysenck were

Question 30

Which of the following was proposed by Hans J. Eysenck?

Question 31

Eysenck's encounter with the fascist right and his later battles with the radical left suggested to him that the trait of _____ was equally prevalent in both extremes of the political spectrum

Question 32

Hans J. Eysenck described a trait as

Question 33

A major thrust of Eysenck's theory is that personality results from the basic genetic and neurophysiological makeup of humans. Which biological research ndings support this assertion?

Question 34

Which of the following is not one of Eysenck's criteria for identifying factors?

Question 35

According to Grossarth-Maticek, who had very low deaths from either cancer or cardiovascular disease?

Question 36

In the context of Eysenck’s biologically based factor theory, the key for Eysenck was that the individual dierences in people's personalities were due to

Question 37

Eysenck claimed that introverted neurotics are characterized by all of the following except

Question 38

According to Eysenck's ndings, cold, nonconforming, and aggressive personalities tend to score high on

Question 39

According to Eysenck, low levels of cortical arousal and high sensory thresholds characterize individuals who score high on the _____ scale.

Question 40

Eysenck's P type is a bipolar factor consisting of

Question 41

According to Hans J. Eysenck, introverts can be described as being

Question 42

Some people are vulnerable to psychiatric illness because they have a genetic or acquired weakness that predisposes them to the illness. This explanation for an illness is what Eysenck called the

Question 43

According to Eysenck, high P scorers are

Question 44:

Eysenck and Grossarth-Maticek found that

Question 45

Eysenck's three general types or superfactors are

Question 46

According to the four-level hierarchy of behavior organization proposed by Hans J. Eysenck, _____ are at the highest level of behavior organization

Question 47

Which trait theorist was a native of Germany but lived and worked for much of his professional life in England and at the University of London?

Question 48

According to Eysenck, an individual characterized by hysteria, suggestibility, and somatic symptoms would score high on the _____ scale.

Question 49

In Hans J. Eysenck's theory of personality, individuals who score low on psychoticism tend to be

Question 50

Which of the following is not listed by Eysenck as a criterion for identifying a factor?