Test Bank Questions and Answers for Personal Traits Puzzle
Personality - Answers the unique and relatively stable ways in which someone thinks, feels, and
behaves.
... is what makes us different individuals. - Answers personality
The traits that make up our personality are ... - Answers enduring =long term
personality comes from the Latin word - Answers "persona" for "mask."
the theatrical mask - Answers ... was originally used to either represent or project a specific personality
trait of a character.
Hippocrates - Answers theorized that personality traits and human behaviors are based on four separate
temperaments associated with four fluids ("humors") of the body
four separate temperaments - Answers -choleric temperament (yellow bile -- liver);
-melancholic temperament (black bile -- kidneys);
-sanguine temperament (red blood -- heart);
-phlegmatic temperament (white phlegm - lungs) .
Galen - Answers diseases and personality differences could be explained by imbalances in the humors
and that each person exhibits one of the four temperaments
the choleric person is - Answers passionate, ambitious, and bold
the melancholic person is - Answers reserved, anxious, and unhappy
the sanguine person is - Answers joyful, eager, and optimistic
the phlegmatic person is - Answers calm, reliable, and thoughtful
In the centuries after Galen, other researchers contributed to the development of his four primary
temperament types... - Answers Immanuel Kant and Wilhelm Wundt
Kant agreed with Galen that - Answers .... everyone could be sorted into one of the four temperaments
and that there was no overlap between the four categories
Kant - Answers ... developed a list of traits that could be used to describe the personality of a person
from each of the four temperaments
Wundt - Answers .... suggested a better description of personality could be achieved using two major
axes: emotional/nonemotional and changeable/unchangeable
, The first axis - Answers ... separated strong from weak emotions (the melancholic and choleric
temperaments from the phlegmatic and sanguine)
The second axis - Answers ... divided the changeable temperaments (choleric and sanguine) from the
unchangeable ones (melancholic and phlegmatic)
Phrenology - Answers study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character
and mental abilities
Franz Gall - Answers ... proposed that the distances between bumps on the skull reveal a person's
personality traits, character, and mental abilities
languages, generous, intellectual. - Answers Gall would measure distances revealing the sizes of the
brain areas underneath, providing information that could be used to determine if a person was good
with...
Gall's take on Phrenology ... - Answers lacked empirical support
The Modern Trait Approach was made by... - Answers Allport and Odbert
The Lexical Hypothesis - Answers The Modern Trait Approach is...
The Lexical Hypothesis is... - Answers If there is an adjective in the dictionary, there must be a trait to
back it up.
Cardinal traits, Central traits, Secondary traits. - Answers Allport organized these personality traits into
three categories:
Cardinal traits - Answers -describes some of us
-dominate your entire personality throughout your life:
-What the person is known as;
defined by trait
-not very common: few people have personalities dominated by a single trait
Central traits - Answers -describes all of us
-make up our personalities (such as loyal, kind, agreeable, friendly, sneaky, wild, and grouchy).
-They are many as our personalities are complex.
Secondary traits - Answers -weaves in and out during certain situations
-not quite as obvious or as consistent as central traits. They are present under specific circumstances
and include:
Personality - Answers the unique and relatively stable ways in which someone thinks, feels, and
behaves.
... is what makes us different individuals. - Answers personality
The traits that make up our personality are ... - Answers enduring =long term
personality comes from the Latin word - Answers "persona" for "mask."
the theatrical mask - Answers ... was originally used to either represent or project a specific personality
trait of a character.
Hippocrates - Answers theorized that personality traits and human behaviors are based on four separate
temperaments associated with four fluids ("humors") of the body
four separate temperaments - Answers -choleric temperament (yellow bile -- liver);
-melancholic temperament (black bile -- kidneys);
-sanguine temperament (red blood -- heart);
-phlegmatic temperament (white phlegm - lungs) .
Galen - Answers diseases and personality differences could be explained by imbalances in the humors
and that each person exhibits one of the four temperaments
the choleric person is - Answers passionate, ambitious, and bold
the melancholic person is - Answers reserved, anxious, and unhappy
the sanguine person is - Answers joyful, eager, and optimistic
the phlegmatic person is - Answers calm, reliable, and thoughtful
In the centuries after Galen, other researchers contributed to the development of his four primary
temperament types... - Answers Immanuel Kant and Wilhelm Wundt
Kant agreed with Galen that - Answers .... everyone could be sorted into one of the four temperaments
and that there was no overlap between the four categories
Kant - Answers ... developed a list of traits that could be used to describe the personality of a person
from each of the four temperaments
Wundt - Answers .... suggested a better description of personality could be achieved using two major
axes: emotional/nonemotional and changeable/unchangeable
, The first axis - Answers ... separated strong from weak emotions (the melancholic and choleric
temperaments from the phlegmatic and sanguine)
The second axis - Answers ... divided the changeable temperaments (choleric and sanguine) from the
unchangeable ones (melancholic and phlegmatic)
Phrenology - Answers study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character
and mental abilities
Franz Gall - Answers ... proposed that the distances between bumps on the skull reveal a person's
personality traits, character, and mental abilities
languages, generous, intellectual. - Answers Gall would measure distances revealing the sizes of the
brain areas underneath, providing information that could be used to determine if a person was good
with...
Gall's take on Phrenology ... - Answers lacked empirical support
The Modern Trait Approach was made by... - Answers Allport and Odbert
The Lexical Hypothesis - Answers The Modern Trait Approach is...
The Lexical Hypothesis is... - Answers If there is an adjective in the dictionary, there must be a trait to
back it up.
Cardinal traits, Central traits, Secondary traits. - Answers Allport organized these personality traits into
three categories:
Cardinal traits - Answers -describes some of us
-dominate your entire personality throughout your life:
-What the person is known as;
defined by trait
-not very common: few people have personalities dominated by a single trait
Central traits - Answers -describes all of us
-make up our personalities (such as loyal, kind, agreeable, friendly, sneaky, wild, and grouchy).
-They are many as our personalities are complex.
Secondary traits - Answers -weaves in and out during certain situations
-not quite as obvious or as consistent as central traits. They are present under specific circumstances
and include:
