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6. Raymond Cattell's gactor analysis of personality traits found how many personality factors?

  • 16
  • 12
  • 14
  • 20

7. Which of Rogers' versions of the self is socially constructed, and not who we really are?

  • Actual self
  • Self-concept
  • Ideal self
  • Real organismic self

8. Which of these is a projective test to measure personality?

  • Emotional Stroop Test
  • Self-report questionnaire
  • Rorschach Inkblot Test
  • Implicit Association Test

9. According to Stoughton's 2013 study on online behaviours and the Five Factor Model, which factor is associated with badmouthing on social media?

  • Low agreeableness
  • High neuroticism
  • Low extraversion
  • High conscientiousness

10. Which of Eysenck's factors is this... high levels results in emotional instability and spotaneous activity, low levels makes individuals reflective. They often have a highly reactive autonomic NS.

  • Extraversion
  • Introversion
  • Neuroticism
  • Psychoticism

11. What 2 traits did Oosterhof + Todorov (2008) consider to be the most important in faces?

  • Trustworthiness and dominance
  • Trustworthiness and youthful-attractiveness
  • Dominance and youthful-attractiveness
  • Dominance and recognisability

12. According to Bleidorn (2016), which factor resulted in high self-esteem regardless of geographical area?

  • Low neuroticism ratings
  • High extraversion ratings
  • High neuroticism ratings
  • High conscientiousness ratings

13. According to Hayes and Joseph (2003), which 2 factors contribute the most to higher happiness (but not necessarily higher life satisfaction)

  • High agreeableness and low neuroticism
  • High extraversion and high neuroticism
  • High extraversion and low neuroticism
  • High conscientiousness and low neuroticism

14. Which of these is not a trait of the Dark Triad?

  • Psychopathy
  • Extraversion
  • Narcissism
  • Machiavellianism

15. Based on Paulhus and Williams' (2002) research, which of the following statements is true?

  • Narcissism was negatively correlated with extraversion
  • Agreeableness negatively correlated with all 3 aspects of the Dark triad
  • Openness positively correlated with machiavellianism
  • Openness negatively correlated with machiavellianism

16. What does Maslow's hierarchy of needs (1954) suggest?

  • We can work on things in any order, but must complete the hierarchy
  • We must work on things in order, up the hierarchy e.g. safety, then love
  • There is no structure to what we need the most
  • We must work on things in order, down the hierarchy e.g. safety, then physioligical wellbeing

17. Which of these is a strength of Eysenck's Theory of Personality?

  • It has significant applications to mental health
  • Cross-culturally valid test (EPQ)
  • All of these
  • Child version of the test (EPQ) has been developed

18. What does the Emotional Stroop Task find?

  • We are slower at answering the written word related to stress
  • Speed of answers is unrelated to stressful words
  • We are slower at answering the colour of words relating to stress
  • We are faster at answering the colour of words relating to stress

19. Which of these is a criticism of self-report questionnaires in measuring personality?

  • Time consuming
  • Issues of social desirability bias
  • Expensive
  • Can only be done in person

20. According to learning theory, the 3 important factors in developing personality are...

  • Social, behavioural and environmental
  • Personal, behavioural and environmental
  • Personal, social and environmental
  • Personal, environmental and social