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6. s the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) criticised for validity?

  • I don't know
  • Yes
  • No

7. What are the big five personality factors?

  • Happiness, Anxiety, Outgoing,Agreeableness, Neuroticism
  • Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Happiness, Anxiety,
  • Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism
  • Happiness, Anxiety, Outgoing, Introverted, Extroverted

8. What is the ego according to Freud?

  • It tries to satisfy the 'id' while mediating and resolving conflicts between the 'id' and 'superego'. it operates at a 'conscience' level.
  • It tries to satisfy the 'id' while mediating and resolving conflicts between the 'id' and 'superego'. It operates on the 'reality principle'
  • It tries to match the 'ego-ideal' and operates at a 'conscience' level.
  • The unconscious, aggressive and sexually instinctive part of your mind. It operates on the pleasure principle

9. How are projective tests used for personality assessments?

  • Provided by observers, indicating whether their friend/partner/stranger possesses certain chacteristics
  • By relying on self-report by the self-evaluation of certain behaviours, thoughts or feelings
  • By presenting Ambiguous stimuli and asking for subjective interpretation
  • By measuring objective behaviour relevant to some aspects of personality

10. When did the humanistic approach start to exist?

  • In the 1950s and 1960s
  • In the 1960s
  • In the 1960s and 1970s
  • In the 1950s

11. What is a strength of the big five factor model?

  • It can be done anywhere
  • It is quick to do
  • There is a lot of empirical evidence in support of it found in several cultures
  • A lot of people agree with it

12. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) can be used for job hiring, court cases, government and military posisions

  • I don't know
  • True
  • False (all but government and military)
  • False (alll of them but court cases)

13. What is the superego according to Freud?

  • It tries to match the 'ego-ideal' and operates at a 'conscience' level.
  • It tries to satisfy the 'ego' while mediating and resolving conflicts between the 'id' and 'ego'. It operates on the 'reality principle'
  • The unconscious, aggressive and sexually instinctive part of your mind. It operates on the pleasure principle
  • It tries to match the 'ego-ideal' and operates on the 'reality principle'

14. What is a weakness of the big five factor model?

  • It does not go in depth
  • Not many people can take it
  • It is primarily descriptive
  • There isn't much evidence backing it up

15. What modern research supports Freud's theory?

  • The existence of Amygdala in the brain could be the id
  • The existence of Amygdala in the brain could be the ego
  • The existence of Amygdala in the brain could be the superego
  • The existence of thalamus in the brain could be the id

16. The humanistic approach to personality is based on the person having free well (existentialism)

  • True
  • False (it is against this)
  • I don't know

17. There is modern research to support Freud;s theory

  • I don't know
  • False (there is no research)
  • False (there is research but it is limited)
  • True

18. How does Carl Rogers use the 'Q-sort' technique with client-centred therapy?

  • Patients sort statements in order of how they think other people view them
  • Patients sort statements in order of how much they think this is like them, they then sort them how they wish they could be (their ideal self)
  • Patients sort statements in order of how they wish they could be (their ideal self)
  • Patients sort statements in order of how much they think this is like them,

19. What is a basic assumption of the factor theories of personality?

  • That people will give honest answers
  • That everyone is unique
  • That a series of items can be reduced to a smaller set of underlying fundamental dimensions
  • That a series of items can not be reduced to a smaller set of underlying fundamental dimensions

20. According to Freud's theory of personality what is the mind?

  • Something which is divided into three, conflicting, systems
  • something which varies from person to person
  • Something which cannot be explained
  • Something which can be studied scientifically