PERSONALITY ASSESMENT EXAM 2025 GRADED A (100%
CORRECT ANSWERS)
A personality psychologist who is concerned primarily with people's unconscious mind and internal
conflict follows what approach? - Psychoanalytic Approach
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with a person's conscious experiences follows the
__________ approach. - Phenomenological
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with how a person's genes, physiology, and brain anatomy
are related to his or her personality follows the __________ approach. - Biological
A systematic, self-imposed limitation of observations, patterns, and ways of thinking about these
patterns is called __________. - The Basic Approach
Behaviourism, social learning theory, and cognitive personality psychology comprise which of the
following approaches to psychology? - Learning and Cognitive Approach
How do clinical psychology and personality psychology overlap? - Clinical and personality psychology
share a common responsibility to understand every feature of an individual, not just single aspects
about them.
How people feel, think, and behave are parts of __________. - The Psychological Triad
Humanistic psychology pursues how conscious awareness can produce uniquely human attributes
such as __________. - existential anxiety, creativity, and free will
Is "stubbornness" a good personality trait to have? - Yes and no; it can be a strength in some
situations and a weakness in others
One branch of the phenomenological approach focuses on how conscious awareness produces
uniquely human attributes and the other branch focuses on __________. - the degree to which the
experience of reality may be different in different cultures
One disadvantage of creating "One Big Theory" of personality psychology is that __________. - It
would explain some parts of behavior well and other parts not as well
, Personality psychology can be organized into __________ basic approaches. - 5
Personality psychology emphasizes individual differences. How does this focus serve as one of the
discipline's strengths? - It leads personality psychologists to be extremely sensitive to the fact that
people really are different from each other
Personality psychology's biggest advantage over other areas of psychology is that - the psychology of
whole persons is taken into account
The different approaches to studying personality __________ rather than __________ each other. -
complement; compete with
The three parts of the psychological triad are __________. - not always consistent at all times
The trait approach to personality psychology best describes what situation? - a psychologist focusing
on ways that people differ from one another in behavior and disposition, and how these differences
might be measured
When defining personality, we could say that personality is best described as - people's characteristic
patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior together with the psychological mechanisms, hidden or
not, behind those patterns
When patterns of behavior are extreme, unusual, and problematic, personality psychology overlaps
with __________. - Clinical Psychology
Which of the following is an example of a basic approach, or paradigm, of personality psychology? -
the Psychoanalytic Approach
According to the text, what is the central principle behind the use of S data? - People are the best
experts on their own opinions and behaviors
Because any piece of L data can have many different causes, it is extremely difficult to directly
connect life outcomes with specific personality traits. This key disadvantage to L data is referred to as
__________. - Multidetermination
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A personality psychologist who is concerned primarily with people's unconscious mind and internal
conflict follows what approach? - Psychoanalytic Approach
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with a person's conscious experiences follows the
__________ approach. - Phenomenological
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with how a person's genes, physiology, and brain anatomy
are related to his or her personality follows the __________ approach. - Biological
A systematic, self-imposed limitation of observations, patterns, and ways of thinking about these
patterns is called __________. - The Basic Approach
Behaviourism, social learning theory, and cognitive personality psychology comprise which of the
following approaches to psychology? - Learning and Cognitive Approach
How do clinical psychology and personality psychology overlap? - Clinical and personality psychology
share a common responsibility to understand every feature of an individual, not just single aspects
about them.
How people feel, think, and behave are parts of __________. - The Psychological Triad
Humanistic psychology pursues how conscious awareness can produce uniquely human attributes
such as __________. - existential anxiety, creativity, and free will
Is "stubbornness" a good personality trait to have? - Yes and no; it can be a strength in some
situations and a weakness in others
One branch of the phenomenological approach focuses on how conscious awareness produces
uniquely human attributes and the other branch focuses on __________. - the degree to which the
experience of reality may be different in different cultures
One disadvantage of creating "One Big Theory" of personality psychology is that __________. - It
would explain some parts of behavior well and other parts not as well
, Personality psychology can be organized into __________ basic approaches. - 5
Personality psychology emphasizes individual differences. How does this focus serve as one of the
discipline's strengths? - It leads personality psychologists to be extremely sensitive to the fact that
people really are different from each other
Personality psychology's biggest advantage over other areas of psychology is that - the psychology of
whole persons is taken into account
The different approaches to studying personality __________ rather than __________ each other. -
complement; compete with
The three parts of the psychological triad are __________. - not always consistent at all times
The trait approach to personality psychology best describes what situation? - a psychologist focusing
on ways that people differ from one another in behavior and disposition, and how these differences
might be measured
When defining personality, we could say that personality is best described as - people's characteristic
patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior together with the psychological mechanisms, hidden or
not, behind those patterns
When patterns of behavior are extreme, unusual, and problematic, personality psychology overlaps
with __________. - Clinical Psychology
Which of the following is an example of a basic approach, or paradigm, of personality psychology? -
the Psychoanalytic Approach
According to the text, what is the central principle behind the use of S data? - People are the best
experts on their own opinions and behaviors
Because any piece of L data can have many different causes, it is extremely difficult to directly
connect life outcomes with specific personality traits. This key disadvantage to L data is referred to as
__________. - Multidetermination
