PSYC 101 EXAM 3 TEST BANK COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEED
TO PASS PRACTICE SOLUTION
●● Five-Factor Model (Big Five)
Answer: The Five-Factor Model is a widely accepted model of
personality traits. Advocates of the model believe that much of the
variability in people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can be
summarized with five broad traits. These five traits are Openness,
Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.
●● Openness (Openness to Experience)
Answer: A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to seek out
and to appreciate new things, including thoughts, feelings, values, and
experiences.
●● Conscientiousness
Answer: A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to be
careful, organized, hardworking, and to follow rules.
●● Extraversion
Answer: A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to be
sociable, outgoing, active, and assertive.
,●● Agreeableness
Answer: A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to be
compassionate, cooperative, warm, and caring to others.
●● Neuroticism
Answer: A personality trait that reflects the tendency to be
interpersonally sensitive and the tendency to experience negative
emotions like anxiety, fear, sadness, and anger.
●● Facets (subtraits)
Answer: Broad personality traits can be broken down into narrower
facets or aspects of the trait.
●● Person-situation debate
Answer: The person-situation debate is a historical debate about the
relative power of personality traits as compared to situational influences
on behavior.
●● Situationist critique
Answer: The situationist critique, which started the person-situation
debate, suggested that people overestimate the extent to which
personality traits are consistent across situations.
●● Objective tests
, Answer: Objective tests involve administering a standard set of items,
each of which is answered using a limited set of response options, and
responses are scored in a standardized, predetermined way
●● Self-report
Answer: A type of objective test in which people are asked to describe
themselves, often using words, phrases, or sentences about their own
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
●● Self-enhancement bias
Answer: The tendency for people to see and/or present themselves in an
overly favorable way. Defensiveness (in self-enhancement bias) is
when individuals actually believe they are better than they really are
Impression management (in self-enhancement bias) is
when people intentionally distort their responses to try to convince
others that they are better than they really are
●● Informant ratings
Answer: A method of personality assessment in which someone who
knows a person well (such as a friend, family member, or partner)
describes that person's personality characteristics
●● Sibling contrast effect
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEED
TO PASS PRACTICE SOLUTION
●● Five-Factor Model (Big Five)
Answer: The Five-Factor Model is a widely accepted model of
personality traits. Advocates of the model believe that much of the
variability in people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can be
summarized with five broad traits. These five traits are Openness,
Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.
●● Openness (Openness to Experience)
Answer: A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to seek out
and to appreciate new things, including thoughts, feelings, values, and
experiences.
●● Conscientiousness
Answer: A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to be
careful, organized, hardworking, and to follow rules.
●● Extraversion
Answer: A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to be
sociable, outgoing, active, and assertive.
,●● Agreeableness
Answer: A personality trait that reflects a person's tendency to be
compassionate, cooperative, warm, and caring to others.
●● Neuroticism
Answer: A personality trait that reflects the tendency to be
interpersonally sensitive and the tendency to experience negative
emotions like anxiety, fear, sadness, and anger.
●● Facets (subtraits)
Answer: Broad personality traits can be broken down into narrower
facets or aspects of the trait.
●● Person-situation debate
Answer: The person-situation debate is a historical debate about the
relative power of personality traits as compared to situational influences
on behavior.
●● Situationist critique
Answer: The situationist critique, which started the person-situation
debate, suggested that people overestimate the extent to which
personality traits are consistent across situations.
●● Objective tests
, Answer: Objective tests involve administering a standard set of items,
each of which is answered using a limited set of response options, and
responses are scored in a standardized, predetermined way
●● Self-report
Answer: A type of objective test in which people are asked to describe
themselves, often using words, phrases, or sentences about their own
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
●● Self-enhancement bias
Answer: The tendency for people to see and/or present themselves in an
overly favorable way. Defensiveness (in self-enhancement bias) is
when individuals actually believe they are better than they really are
Impression management (in self-enhancement bias) is
when people intentionally distort their responses to try to convince
others that they are better than they really are
●● Informant ratings
Answer: A method of personality assessment in which someone who
knows a person well (such as a friend, family member, or partner)
describes that person's personality characteristics
●● Sibling contrast effect
