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Organizational Behavior Practice Test Questions: Personality
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Organizational Behavior Practice Test Questions: Personality
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1. ——— is an external, unstable attribution for why something happens to a person?
2. Adler described that Someone who feels as though they are not living up to expectations would be
3. Which one best describes a person. who is sensitive and intellectual? William Sheldon suggested that body build was associated with personality traits.
4. Natali . What is the difference between nomothetic and idiographic approaches to personality?
5. Approximately how many trait words for personality are there in the English language?
6. he Ancient Greeks hypothesized that there were 4 different personality characteristics. The four characteristics are
7. During psychology you are falling asleep. You know last night you only got three hours of sleep; therefore you have a valid reason. The person sitting in front of you is sleeping also. You automatically think that they are lazy and really dont care about the class. This is an example of
8. Which of the following is the Humanistic psychologists embraced the idea of:
9. Devin's personality is researched through 3 factors: extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism. This personality trait model is called
10. If you had a correlation of positive one, the related items would be:
11. The MMPI is used to measure:
12. Talkative vs. silent; frank, open vs. secretive; adventurous vs. cautious; sociable vs. reclusive these traits describe which dimension of personality?
13. Which of the statements below are FALSE?
14. Sheldon proposed the traits that would best describe a football player would be:
15. Psychologists seek to understand Robs personality through his thoughts, beliefs and their impact on his behavior in certain situations. This is known as the
16. What is meant by ‘interactionism’ in personality psychology?
17. From the Big Five personality dimensions, behaviours such as speaking fluently, displaying ambition, and exhibiting a high degree of intelligence is
18. Which of the following is not a defence mechanism?
19. Which range best targets the number of 'Central Traits' that have been identified?
20. Who is the pioneer that proposed the 16 basic dimensions of normal personality and devised a questionnaire (16PF) to measure them?
21. What type of personality focuses on how people adapt to everyday life and intervenes to improve the lives of individuals through therapy?
22. Positive correlations (from 0.01 to 1.00) indicate that, as one factor goes ________, the other factor goes __________.
23. What is the trait approach to personality?
24. When analyzing a past president to describe his personality by coding letters or speeches he has written, you are using a process called
25. Which of the following is NOT given as a criticism of the Type A/B personality theory?