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6. Psychologists were surprised when it was reported that the correlation coefficients between trait self-reports and actual behaviour were around:

  • 0.3
  • 0.0
  • 0.5
  • 0.8

7. The idea that every person is unique and have traits unique to them is consistent with the _____ approach to personality

  • Idiographic
  • Commonality
  • Nomothetic
  • Implicit

8. In typologies proposed by Hippocrates and Galen, choleric people were thought to be:

  • Calm
  • Irritable
  • Depressed
  • Optimistic

9. In typologies proposed by Hippocrates and Galen, melancholic people were thought to be:

  • Irritable
  • Optimistic
  • Depressed
  • Calm

10. The idea that traits exist and have the same meaning in everyone is consistent with the _____ approach to personality

  • Commonality
  • Idiographic
  • Nomothetic
  • Implicit

11. In typologies proposed by Hippocrates and Galen, phlegmatic people were thought to be:

  • Depressed
  • Irritable
  • Calm
  • Optimistic

12. Which psychologist is best known for his 16- factor personality model?

  • Raymond Cattell
  • Hans Eysenck
  • B. F. Skinner
  • Abraham Maslow

13. According to Eysenck’s categorization a melancholic (depressed) person would be considered:

  • Introverted & high in neuroticism
  • Extroverted & low in neuroticism
  • Introverted & low in neuroticism
  • Extroverted & high in neuroticism

14. Which psychologist set out to study whether the types identified by Hippocrates & Galen could be created by combining high & low levels of two supertraits?

  • Gordon Allport
  • Hans Eysenck
  • Raymond Cattell
  • Carl Jung

15. Which approach states that traits & situations interact to influence behaviour?

  • None of these
  • Interactionism
  • Mischelism
  • Situationism

16. Cattell’s approach to understanding personality can best be described as:

  • Theoretical
  • Empirical
  • Rational
  • Psychoanalytic

17. According to Eysenck’s categorisation a sanguine (optimistic) person would be considered:

  • Introverted & low in neuroticism
  • Introverted & high in neuroticism
  • Extroverted & low in neuroticism
  • Extroverted & high in neuroticism

18. Who argued that people are either introverts or extroverts?

  • Maslow
  • Allport
  • Jung
  • Skinner

19. Situations in which individual differences can be expressed easily are termed:

  • Weak
  • Malleable
  • Strong
  • Expressive

20. Where does the term nomothetic derive from?

  • The greek word meaning "irritable"
  • The greek word meaning "law"
  • The greek word meaning "individual"
  • The greek word meaning "calm"