Personality
Traits are defined as:
physical characteristics that distinguish us from other people
relatively enduring characteristics that influence our behaviour across many situations
unconscious tendencies to act in different ways according to the situation
permanent personality tendencies that determine our behaviour in any situation
relatively enduring characteristics that influence our behaviour across many situations
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Projective tests claim to reveal information about:A. career aptitude
B. intellectual attainment
C. unconscious processes
D. parenting style
Phrenologists tried to find out about personality by:
A. reading a personโs horoscope
B. feeling a personโs skull
C. looking at a personโs hands
D. asking people questions
The Barnum effect helps to explain peopleโs belief in:
A. fortune-telling
B. astrology
C. horoscopes
D. all the above
The discovery that the heritability of the Big Five personality traits is around 40% โ 50% suggests that:
A. the environment plays no role in personality
B. genes play no role in personality
C. the environment plays an important role in personality
D. the Big Five traits account for about half of our personality
The ________ complex is to girls as the ________ complex is to boys.
A. Electra, Oedipus
B. Oedipus, Electra
C. oral, phallic
D. phallic, oral
Which of the following characteristics describe someone who, according to Maslow, is self-actualized?
A. creativity
B. confidence
C. spontaneity
D. all of the above
Humanistic psychologists embraced the idea of:
A. repression
B. free will
C. unconscious drives
D. the id
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