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