Personality & Human Development – TAKE HOME QUIZ

Directions: Respond to each question to the best of your abilities. (1 point each)

1.)Parents who disguise hostility toward their children by becoming overly protective of them are very likely using the defense mechanism of ______

  1. Projectiond. Reaction Formation
  2. Regressione. Displacement
  3. Rationalization

2.)Mrs. Sunstedt believes that parents should accept and try to understand their children’s feelings and should honestly disclose their own inner feelings to their children. Her approach to parent-child interaction was most explicitly recommended by ______

  1. Albert Bandurad. Carl Rogers
  2. Gordon Allporte. Carl Jung
  3. Sigmund Freud

3.)During the course of successful prenatal development, a human organism begins as a(n) ______

  1. Embryo and finally develops into a zygote
  2. Zygote and finally develops into an embryo
  3. Embryo and finally develops into a fetus
  4. Zygote and finally develops into a fetus
  5. Fetus and finally develops into an embryo

4.)Three month-old Andrew was obviously startled by the first ring of the telephone, but with each subsequent ring he seemed to become less reactive. This best illustrates the process of ______

  1. Accommodationd. Habituation
  2. Conservatione. Attachment
  3. Imprinting

5.)The belief that some distressing physical symptoms could not be readily explained in terms of neurological impairments contributed most directly to ______

  1. Allport’s interest in personality traits
  2. Freud’s interest in unconscious conflicts
  3. Maslow’s interest in self-actualization
  4. Bandura’s interest in personal control
  5. Rogers’ interest in unconditional positive regard

6.)At 12 months of age, Jeremy shows no more desire to be held by his parents than by complete strangers. His behavior best illustrates ______

  1. Object permanenced. Attachment
  2. Insecure attachmente. Egocentrism
  3. Habituation

7.)For several months after he lost his job of nearly 20 years, Mr. Ullomi frequently lost his temper and suffered periodic crying spells. His behavior is most clearly an example of ______

  1. Displacementd. Projection
  2. The Oedipis Complexe. Regression
  3. Reaction formation

8.)A child’s realization that others may have beliefs which the child knows to be false best illustrates that the child is not completely ______

  1. Assimilatedd. Habituated
  2. Egocentrice. Accommodated
  3. Imprinted

9.)There is very little relationship between the age of an adult and his or her ______

  1. Fluid intelligenced. Susceptibility to accidental physical injury
  2. Ability to recall meaningless informatione. Susceptibility to colds and flu
  3. Level of life satisfaction

10.)According to Kohlberg, morality based on the avoidance of punishment and the attainment of concrete rewards represents a(n) ______morality

  1. Egocentricd. Concrete operational
  2. Conventionale. Postconventional
  3. Preconventional

11.)According to Erikson, trust is to ______as identity is to ______

  1. Infancy; childhoodd. Adolescence; adulthood
  2. Childhood; adolescencee. Infancy; adolescence
  3. Adulthood; childhood

12.)In formulating his theory of psychosocial development, Erikson would have suggested that authoritarian parents are likely to inhibit young children’s ______

  1. Theory of mindd. Conventional morality
  2. Autonomy and initiativee. Habituation
  3. Assimilation and accommodation

13.)As personality descriptions become more positive, the Barnum effect becomes stronger. This best illustrates ______

  1. The spotlight effectd. An external locus of control
  2. Unconditional positive regarde. Attributional style
  3. Self-serving bias

14.)Lambs raised in the barn where the cattle are kept tend to stay near the cattle when subsequently placed in open pasture. This best illustrates a process known as ______

  1. Assimilationd. Accommodation
  2. Imprintinge. The rooting reflex
  3. Conservation

15.)Morris is hostile, aggressive, and socially destructive. According to Carl Rogers, this behavior pattern results most directly from ______

  1. Reciprocal determinismd. Inborn personality traits
  2. Cultural influencese. An internal locus of control
  3. The collective unconscious

16.)Freud’s theory of personality has been repeatedly criticized because it ______

  1. Underestimates the importance of biological contributions to personality development
  2. Is contradicted by recent research demonstrating the human capacity for destructive behavior
  3. Is overly reliant upon observations derived from Freud’s use of projective tests
  4. Offers few testable hypotheses that allow one to determine its validity
  5. Relies on overly simplistic explanations of behavior and conditioning

17.)Four-year-old Jennifer mistakenly believes that her mother would like to receive a toy doll as a Christmas present. This best illustrates Piaget’s concept of ______

  1. Accommodationd. Conservational
  2. Attachmente. Egocentrism
  3. Object permanence

18.)Which of the following is most likely to be associated with high self-esteem?

  1. The spotlight effectd. An external locus of control
  2. An Electra complexe. Reciprocal determinism
  3. Self-serving bias

19.)Maslow most clearly interjected his own personal values into his study of self-actualized individuals by ______

  1. Selectively studying people with qualities he admired
  2. Interpreting their flattering self-descriptions as a self-serving bias
  3. Overemphasizing the value of their loyalty to cultural norms
  4. Using projective tests to assess their motives
  5. Using free association and dream analysis

20.)Darlene smoked heavily during the entire nine months of her pregnancy. Her baby will most likely be ______

  1. Underweightd. Hearing impaired
  2. Autistice. Insecurely attached
  3. Hyperactive

21.)Explaining why the best work of scientists is often produced in early adulthood while that of novelists often originates during middle adulthood requires a distinction between ______

  1. Initiative and generativityd. Fluid and crystallized intelligence
  2. Concrete and formal operationse. Conventional and postconventional morality
  3. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies

22.)The best evidence that four-month-old infants possess visual memory capabilities comes from research on ____

  1. Imprintingd. Object permanence
  2. Conservatione. Habituation
  3. The rooting reflex

23.)A postconventional level of morality is most likely to be found in cultures that value ______

  1. Individualismd. Social harmony
  2. Utilitarianisme. Socialism
  3. Communism

24.)Compared with those who perceive an external locus of control, people who perceive an internal locus of control are ______

  1. Likely to experience low self-esteem
  2. Extremely introverted personalities
  3. Likely to be academically successful
  4. Not easily able to delay gratification of their personal desires
  5. Likely to experience depression

25.)Which of the following statements concerning the effects of aging is true?

  1. Aging inevitably leads to total memory failure if the individual lives long enough
  2. Aging increases susceptibility to short-term ailments such as the flu
  3. Significant increases in life satisfaction are associated with aging
  4. The aging process can be significantly affected by the individual’s activity patterns
  5. Aging is not a naturally occurring process

26.)Unrealistic optimism could best be described as a(n) ______

  1. Self-serving biasd. Self-reference phenomenon
  2. Reaction formatione. External locus of control
  3. Fixation

27.)Boris does not like chemistry, but he has chosen it as his college major simply to prove that he is just as smart as his father, who is an outstanding chemist. A psychoanalyst would be most likely to suggest that Boris suffers from an unresolved ______

  1. Oral fixationd. External locus of control
  2. Free associatione. Projection
  3. Oedipus complex

28.)According to Freud, the part of the personality that represents our sense of right and wrong and our ideal standards is the ______

  1. Collective unconsciousd. Id
  2. Egoe. Superego
  3. Self-concept

29.) An individual who perceives an internal locus of control would most likely show signs of a ______

  1. Weak idd. Strong ego
  2. Strong ide. Weak superego
  3. Weak ego

30.)Which of the following test characteristically describes personality in flattering terms?

  1. Rorschach Inkblot test
  2. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
  3. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  4. MMPI
  5. Thematic Apperception Test

Yellow Sheet

  • Jean Piaget
  • Erik Erikson
  • Harry Harlow
  • Abraham Maslow
  • Mary Ainsworth
  • Lawrence Kohlberg
  • Hans Eysenck
  • Hermann Rorschach
  • Karen Horney
  • Martin Seligman
  • Raymond Cattell