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Personality: Theory and Research
14th Edition
Authors: Daniel Cervone & Lawrence A. Pervin
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Table of Contents
1. Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories
2. The Scientific Study of People
3. A Psychodynamic Theory: Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
4. Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical
Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
5. A Phenomenological Theory: The Personality Theory of Rogers
6. Rogers’s Phenomenological Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical
Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
7. Trait Theories of Personality: Allport, Eysenck, and Cattell
8. Trait Theory: The Five-Factor Model and Contemporary Developments
9. Biological Foundations of Personality
10.Behaviorism and the Learning Approaches to Personality
11.A Cognitive Theory: George A. Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory of
Personality
12.Social-Cognitive Theory: Bandura and Mischel
13.Social-Cognitive Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and
Contemporary Developments
14.Personality in Context: Interpersonal Relations, Culture, and Development
Across the Course of Life
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Chapter 01: Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories
Multiple Choice
1. The text emphasizes that a big difference between intuitive theories about people and
scientific theories of personality is that the personality scientist must
a) engage in scientific observation.
b) interrelate concepts about people systematically.
c) provide ideas that are testable.
d) all of the above.
Ans: d
2. A unique feature of a course in personality psychology is that, unlike other courses, the
focus is on
a) motivation.
b) nervous system functioning.
c) the whole person.
d) social systems and culture.
Ans: d
3. The text defines personality mainly in terms of
a) consistent patterns of behavior.
b) unconscious wishes.
c) traits.
d) all of the above.
Ans: a
4. In general terms, the text suggests that the science of personality
b. is the study of how individuals differ in their perceptions and how
c. these differences relate to their total functioning.
d. attempts to understand how people are alike while recognizing that individuals are
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different in some ways.
e. attempts to develop strategies for further research.
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Test Bank & Solution Manual
Personality: Theory and Research
14th Edition
Authors: Daniel Cervone & Lawrence A. Pervin
1
,@ProfdocDigitalLibraries <Best Online Study Materials>
Table of Contents
1. Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories
2. The Scientific Study of People
3. A Psychodynamic Theory: Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
4. Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical
Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
5. A Phenomenological Theory: The Personality Theory of Rogers
6. Rogers’s Phenomenological Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical
Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
7. Trait Theories of Personality: Allport, Eysenck, and Cattell
8. Trait Theory: The Five-Factor Model and Contemporary Developments
9. Biological Foundations of Personality
10.Behaviorism and the Learning Approaches to Personality
11.A Cognitive Theory: George A. Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory of
Personality
12.Social-Cognitive Theory: Bandura and Mischel
13.Social-Cognitive Theory: Applications, Related Theoretical Conceptions, and
Contemporary Developments
14.Personality in Context: Interpersonal Relations, Culture, and Development
Across the Course of Life
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Chapter 01: Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories
Multiple Choice
1. The text emphasizes that a big difference between intuitive theories about people and
scientific theories of personality is that the personality scientist must
a) engage in scientific observation.
b) interrelate concepts about people systematically.
c) provide ideas that are testable.
d) all of the above.
Ans: d
2. A unique feature of a course in personality psychology is that, unlike other courses, the
focus is on
a) motivation.
b) nervous system functioning.
c) the whole person.
d) social systems and culture.
Ans: d
3. The text defines personality mainly in terms of
a) consistent patterns of behavior.
b) unconscious wishes.
c) traits.
d) all of the above.
Ans: a
4. In general terms, the text suggests that the science of personality
b. is the study of how individuals differ in their perceptions and how
c. these differences relate to their total functioning.
d. attempts to understand how people are alike while recognizing that individuals are
3
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different in some ways.
e. attempts to develop strategies for further research.
4
