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441) Allport and Odbert (1936) identified how many words to describe personality traits?
a) 1800
b) 4500 ✅
c) 3100
d) 5000
442) What is an example of Cattell’s common traits?
a) Memory for ancient history, language
b) Interests in particular musicians
c) Intelligence, sociability and dependency ✅
d) None of these
443) What is Rorschach’s projective test designed to measure?
a) Unconscious intention ✅
b) Dreams
c) Consciousness
d) Brain size
444) Which of the following is not a projective test?
a) Word association test ✅
b) Rorschach’s inkblot test
c) Thematic apperception test
d) Sentence completion test
445) Which of the following is an acronym for MMSE?
a) Multi-memory state examination
b) Multiple regental strata evaluation
c) Mini mental state examination ✅
d) Meta mental structural evaluation
446) Which of the following processes deals with how well an individual remembers a model’s action after it is no longer readily available?
a) Attitudinal
b) Retention ✅
c) Reproduction
d) Reinforcement
447) One trait that dominates a personality so much that it influences nearly everything a person does?
a) Global Trait
b) Cardinal Trait ✅
c) Specific Trait
d) Central Trait ✅
448) Talkative vs. silent; frank, open vs. secretive; adventurous vs. cautious; sociable vs. reclusive. These traits describe which dimension of personality?
a) Agreeableness
b) Conscientiousness
c) Extraversion ✅
d) Culture
449) From the Big Five personality dimensions, behaviors such as speaking fluently, displaying ambition, and exhibiting a high degree of intelligence is:
a) Agreeableness
b) Openness
c) Extraversion
d) Conscientiousness ✅
450) Which type of personality focuses on how people adapt to everyday life and interventions to improve the lives of people using psychodynamic therapy?
a) Academic psychology
b) Clinical Psychology ✅
c) Practical Psychology
d) Applied Psychology
451) Which of the following would be a phenomenological approach to the study of personality?
a) Emphasize subjects' feelings
b) Emphasize subjects' thoughts
c) Emphasize the meaning that people ascribe to events, not simply the objective events themselves
d) Attempt to understand an individual in his or her fullness, rather than only selected aspects of the person relevant to a small number of traits or other dimensions
e) All of the above ✅
452) What is the trait approach to personality?
a) Assumes that people are motivated by unconscious emotional conflicts
b) Assumes that each individual has stable personality characteristics ✅
c) Assumes that people's thoughts and beliefs are central to personality
d) Assumes that people have an innate tendency to become self-actualized
453) Eysenck originally developed ………, a highly researched factor theory of personality.
a) An interpersonal trait model
b) A sixteen-factor model
c) A three-factor model ✅
d) The Big Five
454) Select the correct hierarchical order of qualities of an individual.
a) Ability-Skills-Aptitude-Competency
b) Aptitude-Ability-Skills-Competency ✅
c) Skills-Aptitude-Competency-Ability
d) Competency-Skills-Ability
455) Behavior in all its aspects can be studied scientifically through a single technique or approach known as……….
a) Learning ✅
b) Teaching
c) Observation
d) None of these
456) Observational method can be suitable for……….
a) Child’s cognitions
b) Child’s personality ✅
c) Changing environment of the child
d) Changing attitude
457) An enduring attribute of a person that appears constantly in a variety of situations is
a) Behavior
b) Trait ✅
c) Attitude
d) Culture
458) Good-natured, cooperative, and trusting are the features of………
a) Introversion
b) Agreeableness ✅
c) Extraversion
d) Conscientiousness
459) Responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement-oriented are features of………
a) Extroversion
b) Conscientiousness ✅
c) Openness
d) Agreeableness
460) Imaginative, artistically sensitive, etc., are features of………
a) Openness ✅
b) Extroversion
c) Agreeableness
d) Conscientiousness
461) Tensed, insecure, and nervousness are features of………
a) Emotional instability ✅
b) Agreeableness
c) Extroversion
d) Conscientiousness
462) Some people strongly believe that each person has control of his own life. This is:
a) Extroversion
b) Conscientiousness
c) Internal locus of control ✅
d) External locus of control
463) Some people think that what happens to them is a result of fate, chance, luck, etc. This is:
a) Extroversion
b) Conscientiousness
c) External locus of control ✅
d) Internal locus of control
464) ……… is the tendency of an individual, which directs them inward to handle and process ideas and thoughts within themselves.
a) Extroversion
b) Introversion ✅
c) Internal locus of control
d) External locus of control
465) ……… persons are likely to be most successful in the field of advertisement, sales department, public relations, etc.
a) Extroversion ✅
b) Conscientiousness
c) Internal locus of control
d) External locus of control
466) ……… persons are likely to be most successful in the field of research and work based on abstract ideas.
a) Extroversion
b) Introversion ✅
c) Internal locus of control
d) External locus of control
467) What is the definition of Attitude?
a) A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person’s behavior. ✅
b) A person, place, or thing.
c) A word that describes action.
d) All of the above.
468) Social thought and social behavior are both influenced by:
a) Attitudes ✅
b) Research procedures
c) Behavioral constraints
d) Self-schematic conceptualization
469) Which of the following is true?
a) Accurate predictions of specific behavior can be derived from people's specific attitudes ✅
b) Attitudes formed as a result of direct experience are poor predictors of behavior
c) The more general the attitudes involved, the greater the accuracy in predicting particular behaviors
d) The best conclusion is that attitudes do not predict behavior
470) All of the following are true about attitudes, except one. Which is false?
a) Attitudes are evaluations of people, objects, and ideas.
b) Attitudes are related to our temperament and personality.
c) Attitudes rarely change over time. ✅
d) Attitudes can be changed with persuasive communications.
471) The "ABCs of attitudes" refers to
a) Aptitudes, brainwashing, and cognition
b) Attraction, behavior, and compliance
c) Affect, behavior, and cognition ✅
d) Affect, bogus pipeline, and cognitive dissonance
472) How many components of attitude?
a) 2
b) 3 ✅
c) 4
d) 5
473) Which of the following statements is not true?
a) Attitudes are inherently unstable. ✅
b) Attitudes are learned.
c) Attitudes are a predisposition to behave in a particular way.
474) Which of the following is NOT a dimension of attitude?
a) Cognition
c) perception
b) conation✅
d) All of these
475) The behavioral component of attitude is called…
a) cognition
b) conation ✅
c) affect
d) All of these
476) Which of the following is an example of an attitude?
a) I really like your shirt. ✅
b) Our family has a new pet.
c) I am interested in studying cultural psychology.
d) I am thinking of a career in medicine.
477) Which of the following is NOT a component of attitudes?
a) Cognitive
b) Affective
c) Personal ✅
d) Behavioral
478) A positive attitude can…
a) Be detrimental
b) Improve motivation ✅
c) Cause a lack of effort
d) None of these
479) The two types of attitudes are…
a) Bad/Good
b) Positive/Bad
c) Positive/Negative ✅
d) Negative/Good
480) A group of individuals having essentially the same social status in a given society is called a…
a) Struggle
b) Social class ✅
c) Social group
d) Secondary group
481) The rank and position of a person in a group or of a group in relation to other groups is termed as…
a) Role
b) Status ✅
c) Both a and b
d) None of these
482) The behavior expected of one who holds a particular status is usually termed as…
a) Role ✅
b) Status
c) Both a and b
d) None of these
483) Role and status are two aspects of the same…
a) Personality
b) Phenomenon ✅
c) Situation
d) None of these
484) When a status may have many roles to play it is known as…
a) Role playing
b) Role sets ✅
c) Role adjustment
d) None of these
485) Ascribed status as the name explains is one…
a) Achieved through effort
b) Ascribed to use by society ✅
c) Both a and b
d) None of these
486) A boss is in a… status.
a) Ascribed ✅
b) Achieved
c) Both a and b
d) None of these
487) Wife, husband, prime minister, and student are all examples of… status.
a) Ascribed status
b) Achieved ✅
c) Contemplated
d) None of these
488) Position of a person or group in a society is called…
a) Role
b) Status ✅
c) Position
d) All of these
489) A position in a hierarchy of social rank is known as…
a) Role
b) Norm
c) Goal
d) Status ✅
490) Social psychology began with the study of…
a) Culture
b) Groups ✅
c) Society
d) Status
491) Process where old behavior is removed and new behavior is learned is known as…
a) Socialization ✅
b) Re-socialization
c) Anticipatory socialization
d) Primary socialization
492) Family is a/an…
a) Secondary group
b) Primary group ✅
c) Formal group
d) Peer group
493) There are some groups on which members do not rely solely for satisfaction of their needs. These groups are known as…
a) Secondary groups ✅
b) Primary groups
c) Formal groups
d) Informal groups
494) In cohesive groups, conformity is…
a) Low
b) Negligible
c) A fluctuating point
d) High ✅
495) Social groups have…
a) A haphazard structure
b) A dynamic structure
c) A definite structure
d) No definite structure ✅
496) In Social Psychology, Culture is:
a) An organized pattern of beliefs and habits ✅
b) A collection of religious rituals
c) An artistic accomplishment and talent
d) A system of polished manners and outfit
497) The movement or shift from one status position to another in a given social space or system of stratification is known as:
a) Social mobility ✅
b) Marginality
c) Cultural hybrid
d) Group dynamics
