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6. What characterises an ETIC approach

  • Projective and implicit tests
  • Translated personality questionnaires
  • Child personality questionnaires
  • Personality terms found in native language

7. What are the three traits in the three-factor model of traits from faces?

  • Youth-attractiveness, dominance, extraversion
  • Approachability, extraversion, openness
  • Trustworthiness, dominance, youth-attractiveness
  • Emotional, conscientiousness, trustworthiness

8. What did female faces correlate with in research by Penton-Voak et al (2006)?

  • Extraversion, neuroticism, openness
  • Conscientiousness and openness
  • Only extraversion
  • Only neuroticism

9. What are the levels in Eysencks Hierarchical model?

  • Surface level (e.g sociable), Primary response (e.g talking to people), Secondary response (e.g positive body language)
  • Surface level (e.g sociable), Primary response (e.g talking to people), Cardinal response (e.g positive body language)
  • Trait level (e.g sociable), Habitual response (e.g talking to people), Specific response (e.g positive body language)
  • Specific response (e.g positive body language), Trait level (e.g sociable), Habitual response (e.g talking to people)

10. Which of these is a weakness of Eysencks theory?

  • Does not have applications in mental health
  • Psychoticism scale has low internal reliability
  • Psychoticism scale has low internal validity
  • Is not cross culturally valid

11. Who was one of the first to use factor analysis in personality traits?

  • Spearman
  • Cattell
  • Binet
  • Allport

12. What did male faces correlate with in research by Penton-Voak et al (2006)?

  • Only neuroticism
  • Extraversion, neuroticism, openness
  • Only extraversion
  • Conscientiousness and openness

13. What are the 3 categories of traits in Allports lexical approach?

  • Source, Surface, Cardinal
  • Cardinal, Central, Secondary
  • Primary, Surface, Source
  • Primary, Cardinal, Secondary

14. What was associated with social media 'badmouthing' in a study by Stoughton et al 2013?

  • High extraversion, low neuroticism
  • Low neuroticism, high conscientiousness
  • Low agreeableness
  • High extraversion

15. What do Cattells 'Constitutional traits' refer to?

  • Genetic traits (uncommon)
  • Genetic traits (common)
  • Experience (common)
  • Environmental traits (uncommon)

16. What was associated with social media photos of substance abuse in a study by Stoughton et al 2013?

  • Low agreeableness
  • Low neuroticism, high conscientiousness
  • High extraversion
  • High extraversion, low neuroticism

17. Eysenck 1993,1994; What do creative people score highly in?

  • Extraversion
  • Psychoticism
  • Neuroticism
  • Extraversion, Neuroticism, Psychoticism

18. What characterises an EMIC approach?

  • Projective and implicit tests
  • Translated personality questionnaires
  • Personality terms found in native language
  • Child personality questionnaires

19. What is the main proposition of Eysencks theory of personality?

  • Fundamental traits are biologically based, but environment influences how they are expressed
  • Personality traits are relatively stable and only reflect temperement
  • Fundamental traits are environmentally based, but biology influences how they are expressed
  • Personality is based on the formation of the nervous system

20. What was associated with higher life satisfaction in a study by Hayes and Joseph (2003)?

  • Low agreeableness
  • High extraversion
  • Low neuroticism, high conscientiousness
  • High extraversion, low neuroticism