Trait) Exam Questions with Answers
Personality Correct Answer: a person's characteristic patterns of
thoughts, feelings, behavior Ditters between people
1. Personality Traits Correct Answer: Basic
dimensions on which people ditter Only need a few to
describe breadth of personality
Every individual falls somewhere on each dimension (e.g. on a scale of 1-100)
Personality traits are continuums
2. Consistency Correct Answer: Person is roughly the same on trait across situations
3. Stability Correct Answer: Person stays roughly the same on trait over time
4. Individual Differences Correct Answer: People have a range of ditterent amounts of
trait
5. Trait Correct Answer: broad, wide-reaching, general
patterns of personality Facet Correct Answer: more
specific pieces within a trait
Person can ditter on ditterent facets of a trait
But generally, scores on facets of same trait are positively correlated
6. Lexical Approach Correct Answer: Personality should be captured by the words human
language has created to describe people
Collect all personal adjectives from dictionary
7. Openness Correct Answer: tendency to think abstractly, appreciate new art, ideas, values
Active imagination
Intellectually curious
Attentive to inner
feelings Appreciates
art
Open to new values and beliefs
8. Conscientiousness Correct Answer: tendency to be careful, organized,
hardworking, to follow rules Competent
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