IOP1601 – Personality in Work Context – Test Bank 2026
Course Information
| Detail | Information |
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| University | University of South Africa (UNISA) |
| Course Code | IOP1601 |
| Course Title | Personality in Work Context |
| NQF Level | 6 |
| Textbook | Psychology in the Work Context, 5th Edition (Oxford University Press Southern
Africa) |
SECTION 1: PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONALITY
Question 1
Question: Which perspective on personality would argue that an employee's low or high
performance is the product of the work environment?
A) Psychodynamic perspective
B) Trait perspective
C) Behaviourism
D) Humanistic perspective
Correct Answer: C) Behaviourism
Explanation: Behaviourism states that the environment shapes behaviour. A behaviourist would
consider how a person's environment and the people in their environment shape their
behaviour.
Question 2
Question: Which perspective states that people create constructs and schemas about the world
that influence their personality and behaviour?
A) Psychosocial theories
B) Cognitive theories
C) Behaviourism
D) African view
Correct Answer: B) Cognitive theories
,Explanation: In the cognitive approach, the emphasis is on self-regulation, self-efficacy,
expectation, prediction, perception, memory, cognitive processes, constructs and schemas.
Question 3
Question: Which perspective focuses on the self as a core part of personality, and the influence
of social and interpersonal relationships?
A) Behaviourism
B) Cognitive theories
C) Psychosocial theories
D) Trait psychology
Correct Answer: C) Psychosocial theories
Explanation: Psychosocial theories focus on the self as a core dimension of personality and
personality development, and also the dominant role of interpersonal relationships, social and
cultural factors, and the influence of other important people in the needs for relatedness and
personality development.
Question 4
Question: Which perspective on personality emphasises that the individual is intertwined with a
group and the greater cosmos?
A) Psychodynamic perspective
B) Trait perspective
C) Behaviourism
D) African view
Correct Answer: D) African view
Explanation: African and Asian views emphasise collectivism and that the individual is
intertwined with a group and the greater cosmos.
Question 5
Question: What kind of study is done to assess a person's behaviour and characteristics over a
long period of time?
, A) Cross-sectional research
B) Longitudinal research
C) Experimental research
D) Case study research
Correct Answer: B) Longitudinal research
Explanation: Longitudinal studies investigate how various personal and personality factors stay
consistent or change over time.
Question 6
Question: In terms of environmental influences, the ______ group to which a person belongs at
a certain time in life provides the historical and immediate mega-environment which creates a
legacy of socio-economic status and other roles and identities that might be difficult to change
later in life.
A) political
B) social
C) cultural
D) family
Correct Answer: C) cultural
Explanation: Cultural membership provides the historical and immediate mega-environment that
prescribes certain behaviours or opportunities. Culture will determine how people think and feel,
and what they do.
Question 7
Question: Cognitive images that we have of our relationships and interactions with other people,
or general interactions with all people are called ______.
A) unconscious processes
B) relational schemas
C) emotional intelligence
D) self-regulation
Correct Answer: B) relational schemas
Explanation: Self-image is shaped through the forming and changing of cognitive and relational
schemas and self comparison.
Course Information
| Detail | Information |
|||
| University | University of South Africa (UNISA) |
| Course Code | IOP1601 |
| Course Title | Personality in Work Context |
| NQF Level | 6 |
| Textbook | Psychology in the Work Context, 5th Edition (Oxford University Press Southern
Africa) |
SECTION 1: PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONALITY
Question 1
Question: Which perspective on personality would argue that an employee's low or high
performance is the product of the work environment?
A) Psychodynamic perspective
B) Trait perspective
C) Behaviourism
D) Humanistic perspective
Correct Answer: C) Behaviourism
Explanation: Behaviourism states that the environment shapes behaviour. A behaviourist would
consider how a person's environment and the people in their environment shape their
behaviour.
Question 2
Question: Which perspective states that people create constructs and schemas about the world
that influence their personality and behaviour?
A) Psychosocial theories
B) Cognitive theories
C) Behaviourism
D) African view
Correct Answer: B) Cognitive theories
,Explanation: In the cognitive approach, the emphasis is on self-regulation, self-efficacy,
expectation, prediction, perception, memory, cognitive processes, constructs and schemas.
Question 3
Question: Which perspective focuses on the self as a core part of personality, and the influence
of social and interpersonal relationships?
A) Behaviourism
B) Cognitive theories
C) Psychosocial theories
D) Trait psychology
Correct Answer: C) Psychosocial theories
Explanation: Psychosocial theories focus on the self as a core dimension of personality and
personality development, and also the dominant role of interpersonal relationships, social and
cultural factors, and the influence of other important people in the needs for relatedness and
personality development.
Question 4
Question: Which perspective on personality emphasises that the individual is intertwined with a
group and the greater cosmos?
A) Psychodynamic perspective
B) Trait perspective
C) Behaviourism
D) African view
Correct Answer: D) African view
Explanation: African and Asian views emphasise collectivism and that the individual is
intertwined with a group and the greater cosmos.
Question 5
Question: What kind of study is done to assess a person's behaviour and characteristics over a
long period of time?
, A) Cross-sectional research
B) Longitudinal research
C) Experimental research
D) Case study research
Correct Answer: B) Longitudinal research
Explanation: Longitudinal studies investigate how various personal and personality factors stay
consistent or change over time.
Question 6
Question: In terms of environmental influences, the ______ group to which a person belongs at
a certain time in life provides the historical and immediate mega-environment which creates a
legacy of socio-economic status and other roles and identities that might be difficult to change
later in life.
A) political
B) social
C) cultural
D) family
Correct Answer: C) cultural
Explanation: Cultural membership provides the historical and immediate mega-environment that
prescribes certain behaviours or opportunities. Culture will determine how people think and feel,
and what they do.
Question 7
Question: Cognitive images that we have of our relationships and interactions with other people,
or general interactions with all people are called ______.
A) unconscious processes
B) relational schemas
C) emotional intelligence
D) self-regulation
Correct Answer: B) relational schemas
Explanation: Self-image is shaped through the forming and changing of cognitive and relational
schemas and self comparison.
