WGU D564 Theories of
Personality OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
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1. Which statement describes how the theoretical issue of biological influences
is addressed by the behavioral approach to personality? - ANSWER ✓
Reinforcement effectiveness is influenced by species differences.
2. What is the behavioral approach to the theoretical issue of culture? -
ANSWER ✓ Society shapes personality by providing the conditions of
learning.
3. Which trait has a positive outcome on well-being, according to positive
psychology? - ANSWER ✓ Experiential flow
4. A person had a heart attack and is working with a health psychologist to
improve their daily functioning. What traits from positive psychology will
the person's psychologist advise them to consider during recovery? -
ANSWER ✓ Active coping, optimism, and spirituality
5. Which characteristic does a fully functioning person display when they rely
on their inner guide to dictate behavior, according to Rogers? - ANSWER ✓
Organismic trust
6. What are personality traits? - ANSWER ✓ Stable and enduring qualities that
define a person's behavior and reactions to various situations.
,7. Which psychological approach to personality suggests that personality is
divided into distinct categories and that individuals belong to one specific
category with no partial memberships? - ANSWER ✓ The type approach
8. What is a primary characteristic of the nomothetic approach in the study of
personality in psychology? - ANSWER ✓ The nomothetic approach
compares many people and their behaviors based on a few numerical scores,
making it difficult to understand one whole person.
9. Which term refers to the ways in which individuals adjust to the changing
demands and opportunities of the world around them? - ANSWER ✓
Adaptation
10.Which term refers to the unique characteristics that relate to individual
behavior and experience? - ANSWER ✓ Personality
11.What are the fundamental aspects that all theories of personality must
address? - ANSWER ✓ Description, dynamics, and development
12.Shaping - ANSWER ✓ the idea similar to that of a sculptor that shapes a
piece of clay into a statue by gradually shaving here and there until a square
block comes to resemble a person or an animal.
13.Punishment - ANSWER ✓ an aversive consequence that follows an act in
order to stop the act and prevent its repetition.
14.Five principles of how to punish - ANSWER ✓ 1. availability of alternatives
(e.g., Halloween party so kids avoid pranks) 2. behavioral and situational
specificity 3. timing and consistency (e.g., hitting dog for making mess
hours earlier) 4. conditioning secondary punishing stimuli (e.g., counting to
3) 5. avoiding mixed messages (e.g., cuddling with child after punishing)
15.Dangers of punishment - ANSWER ✓ 1. punishment arouses emotion 2. it is
difficult to be consistent 3. it is difficult to gauge the severity of punishment
4. punishment teaches misuse of power 5. punishment motivates
concealment
,16.Habit hierarchy - ANSWER ✓ in Dollard and Miller's social learning theory,
all of the behaviors an individual might do, ranked in order from most to
least probable.
17.Drive - ANSWER ✓ in learning theories, a state of psychological tension,
the reduction of which feels good.
18.Primary drives - ANSWER ✓ in learning theories, a drive that is innate to an
organism, such as the hunger drive.
19.Secondary drives - ANSWER ✓ in learning theories, a drive that is learned
through its association with primary drives, and includes drives for love,
prestige, money, power, and the avoidance of fear and of humiliation.
20.Frustration-aggression hypothesis - ANSWER ✓ in Dollard and Miller's
social learning theory, the hypothesis that frustration automatically creates
an impulse toward aggression.
21.Approach-avoidance conflict - ANSWER ✓ in Dollard and Miller's social
learning theory, the psychological conflict induced by a stimulus that is at
once attractive and aversive (e.g., sky-diving).
22.Five key assumptions of the approach-avoidance conflict - ANSWER ✓ 1.
an increase in drive strength will increase the tendency to approach or avoid
a goal. 2. whenever there are two competing responses, the stronger one
(i.e., the one with greater drive strength behind it) will win out. 3. the
tendency to approach a positive goal increases the closer one gets to the
goal. 4. the tendency to avoid a negative goal also increases the closer one
gets to that goal 5. most important, tendency 4 is stronger than tendency 3.
23.Expectancy value theory - ANSWER ✓ Rotter's theory of how the value and
perceived attainability of a goal combine to affect the probability of a goal-
seeking behavior.
24.Expectancy - ANSWER ✓ in Rotter's social learning theory, the degree to
which an individual believes a behavior will probably attain its goal.
, 25.Lfficacy expectations - ANSWER ✓ in Bandura's social learning theory,
one's belief that one can perform a given goal-directed behavior.
26.Learning - ANSWER ✓ in behaviorism, a change in behavior as a result of
experience.
27.Behaviorism - ANSWER ✓ the theoretical view of personality that focuses
on overt behavior and the ways in which it can be affected by rewards and
punishments in the environment.
28.Functional analysis - ANSWER ✓ in behaviorism, a description of how a
behavior is a function of the environment of the person or animal that
performs it.
29.Empiricism - ANSWER ✓ the idea that everything a person knows comes
from experience.
30.tabula rasa - ANSWER ✓ Latin for 'blank slate,' term used by 19th century
philosopher John Locke used to describe the mind of a newborn baby ready
to be written on by experience.
31.Humanistic perspective - ANSWER ✓ Emphasizing the human potential for
self-growth and focusing on how healthy people develop.
32.Difference from psychoanalytic and behaviorist perspectives - ANSWER ✓
It contrasts by emphasizing self-growth, whereas psychoanalytic focuses on
psychological disturbances and behaviorist focuses on responses to the
environment.
33.Main theorists of humanistic perspective - ANSWER ✓ Carl Rogers and
Abraham Maslow.
34.Carl Rogers's two categories of the self - ANSWER ✓ The ideal self and the
real self.
35.Ideal self - ANSWER ✓ The person you would like to be.
36.Real self - ANSWER ✓ The person you actually are.
Personality OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<NEWEST VERSION>
1. Which statement describes how the theoretical issue of biological influences
is addressed by the behavioral approach to personality? - ANSWER ✓
Reinforcement effectiveness is influenced by species differences.
2. What is the behavioral approach to the theoretical issue of culture? -
ANSWER ✓ Society shapes personality by providing the conditions of
learning.
3. Which trait has a positive outcome on well-being, according to positive
psychology? - ANSWER ✓ Experiential flow
4. A person had a heart attack and is working with a health psychologist to
improve their daily functioning. What traits from positive psychology will
the person's psychologist advise them to consider during recovery? -
ANSWER ✓ Active coping, optimism, and spirituality
5. Which characteristic does a fully functioning person display when they rely
on their inner guide to dictate behavior, according to Rogers? - ANSWER ✓
Organismic trust
6. What are personality traits? - ANSWER ✓ Stable and enduring qualities that
define a person's behavior and reactions to various situations.
,7. Which psychological approach to personality suggests that personality is
divided into distinct categories and that individuals belong to one specific
category with no partial memberships? - ANSWER ✓ The type approach
8. What is a primary characteristic of the nomothetic approach in the study of
personality in psychology? - ANSWER ✓ The nomothetic approach
compares many people and their behaviors based on a few numerical scores,
making it difficult to understand one whole person.
9. Which term refers to the ways in which individuals adjust to the changing
demands and opportunities of the world around them? - ANSWER ✓
Adaptation
10.Which term refers to the unique characteristics that relate to individual
behavior and experience? - ANSWER ✓ Personality
11.What are the fundamental aspects that all theories of personality must
address? - ANSWER ✓ Description, dynamics, and development
12.Shaping - ANSWER ✓ the idea similar to that of a sculptor that shapes a
piece of clay into a statue by gradually shaving here and there until a square
block comes to resemble a person or an animal.
13.Punishment - ANSWER ✓ an aversive consequence that follows an act in
order to stop the act and prevent its repetition.
14.Five principles of how to punish - ANSWER ✓ 1. availability of alternatives
(e.g., Halloween party so kids avoid pranks) 2. behavioral and situational
specificity 3. timing and consistency (e.g., hitting dog for making mess
hours earlier) 4. conditioning secondary punishing stimuli (e.g., counting to
3) 5. avoiding mixed messages (e.g., cuddling with child after punishing)
15.Dangers of punishment - ANSWER ✓ 1. punishment arouses emotion 2. it is
difficult to be consistent 3. it is difficult to gauge the severity of punishment
4. punishment teaches misuse of power 5. punishment motivates
concealment
,16.Habit hierarchy - ANSWER ✓ in Dollard and Miller's social learning theory,
all of the behaviors an individual might do, ranked in order from most to
least probable.
17.Drive - ANSWER ✓ in learning theories, a state of psychological tension,
the reduction of which feels good.
18.Primary drives - ANSWER ✓ in learning theories, a drive that is innate to an
organism, such as the hunger drive.
19.Secondary drives - ANSWER ✓ in learning theories, a drive that is learned
through its association with primary drives, and includes drives for love,
prestige, money, power, and the avoidance of fear and of humiliation.
20.Frustration-aggression hypothesis - ANSWER ✓ in Dollard and Miller's
social learning theory, the hypothesis that frustration automatically creates
an impulse toward aggression.
21.Approach-avoidance conflict - ANSWER ✓ in Dollard and Miller's social
learning theory, the psychological conflict induced by a stimulus that is at
once attractive and aversive (e.g., sky-diving).
22.Five key assumptions of the approach-avoidance conflict - ANSWER ✓ 1.
an increase in drive strength will increase the tendency to approach or avoid
a goal. 2. whenever there are two competing responses, the stronger one
(i.e., the one with greater drive strength behind it) will win out. 3. the
tendency to approach a positive goal increases the closer one gets to the
goal. 4. the tendency to avoid a negative goal also increases the closer one
gets to that goal 5. most important, tendency 4 is stronger than tendency 3.
23.Expectancy value theory - ANSWER ✓ Rotter's theory of how the value and
perceived attainability of a goal combine to affect the probability of a goal-
seeking behavior.
24.Expectancy - ANSWER ✓ in Rotter's social learning theory, the degree to
which an individual believes a behavior will probably attain its goal.
, 25.Lfficacy expectations - ANSWER ✓ in Bandura's social learning theory,
one's belief that one can perform a given goal-directed behavior.
26.Learning - ANSWER ✓ in behaviorism, a change in behavior as a result of
experience.
27.Behaviorism - ANSWER ✓ the theoretical view of personality that focuses
on overt behavior and the ways in which it can be affected by rewards and
punishments in the environment.
28.Functional analysis - ANSWER ✓ in behaviorism, a description of how a
behavior is a function of the environment of the person or animal that
performs it.
29.Empiricism - ANSWER ✓ the idea that everything a person knows comes
from experience.
30.tabula rasa - ANSWER ✓ Latin for 'blank slate,' term used by 19th century
philosopher John Locke used to describe the mind of a newborn baby ready
to be written on by experience.
31.Humanistic perspective - ANSWER ✓ Emphasizing the human potential for
self-growth and focusing on how healthy people develop.
32.Difference from psychoanalytic and behaviorist perspectives - ANSWER ✓
It contrasts by emphasizing self-growth, whereas psychoanalytic focuses on
psychological disturbances and behaviorist focuses on responses to the
environment.
33.Main theorists of humanistic perspective - ANSWER ✓ Carl Rogers and
Abraham Maslow.
34.Carl Rogers's two categories of the self - ANSWER ✓ The ideal self and the
real self.
35.Ideal self - ANSWER ✓ The person you would like to be.
36.Real self - ANSWER ✓ The person you actually are.
