Personality Psychology Exam 4 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
interpretation - CORRECT ANSWER - Making sense of, or explaining, various events in
the world is known as______.
Field Independent - CORRECT ANSWER - Display a more impersonal or detached
orientation towards others
Field Dependant - CORRECT ANSWER - Show strong interest in others and get along
well with others
Field-independent people - CORRECT ANSWER - Are skillful at analyzing complex
situations, extracting information from the clutter of background distractions and creative.
Field-dependent people - CORRECT ANSWER - Have strong social skills, gravitate
towards others and are more attentive to the social context
A person getting a tattoo - CORRECT ANSWER - Example of pain tolerance is...
People with low pain tolerance - CORRECT ANSWER - have a nervous system that is
amplified or augmented subjective impact of sensory input
People with high pain tolerance - CORRECT ANSWER - Have a nervous system that
dampened, or reduces, the effects of sensory stimulation
drink more coffee - CORRECT ANSWER - Reducers have been found to...
, inspection time - CORRECT ANSWER - A new variable and intelligent research is
called______ ______, which refers to the time it takes a person to make a simple discrimination
between two displayed objects
If... then... propositions - CORRECT ANSWER - Walter Mitchell presents a
contextualized view of personality as expressed in "________....________..." ________: if
situation eight, then the person does X; but if situation B, then the person does Y.
multiple intelligences - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on his definition of intelligence,
Howard Gardner proposed a theory of______space______, which includes seven forms, such as
interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and musical
intelligence.
How people think about themselves relative to their goal - CORRECT ANSWER - The
cognitive social learning approach has expanded on the notion that personality is expressed in
________.
Personal project - CORRECT ANSWER - A______ ______ is a set of relevant actions
intended to achieve a goal that a person has selected
Cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER - Differences in how people think are the focus
of______approaches to personality.
entity theory - CORRECT ANSWER - person's level of intelligence is fixed and
unchangeable characteristic
incremental theory - CORRECT ANSWER - People believe that their intelligence can be
increased through effort and persistence
achievement view of intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER - Associate with educational
attainment
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
interpretation - CORRECT ANSWER - Making sense of, or explaining, various events in
the world is known as______.
Field Independent - CORRECT ANSWER - Display a more impersonal or detached
orientation towards others
Field Dependant - CORRECT ANSWER - Show strong interest in others and get along
well with others
Field-independent people - CORRECT ANSWER - Are skillful at analyzing complex
situations, extracting information from the clutter of background distractions and creative.
Field-dependent people - CORRECT ANSWER - Have strong social skills, gravitate
towards others and are more attentive to the social context
A person getting a tattoo - CORRECT ANSWER - Example of pain tolerance is...
People with low pain tolerance - CORRECT ANSWER - have a nervous system that is
amplified or augmented subjective impact of sensory input
People with high pain tolerance - CORRECT ANSWER - Have a nervous system that
dampened, or reduces, the effects of sensory stimulation
drink more coffee - CORRECT ANSWER - Reducers have been found to...
, inspection time - CORRECT ANSWER - A new variable and intelligent research is
called______ ______, which refers to the time it takes a person to make a simple discrimination
between two displayed objects
If... then... propositions - CORRECT ANSWER - Walter Mitchell presents a
contextualized view of personality as expressed in "________....________..." ________: if
situation eight, then the person does X; but if situation B, then the person does Y.
multiple intelligences - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on his definition of intelligence,
Howard Gardner proposed a theory of______space______, which includes seven forms, such as
interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and musical
intelligence.
How people think about themselves relative to their goal - CORRECT ANSWER - The
cognitive social learning approach has expanded on the notion that personality is expressed in
________.
Personal project - CORRECT ANSWER - A______ ______ is a set of relevant actions
intended to achieve a goal that a person has selected
Cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER - Differences in how people think are the focus
of______approaches to personality.
entity theory - CORRECT ANSWER - person's level of intelligence is fixed and
unchangeable characteristic
incremental theory - CORRECT ANSWER - People believe that their intelligence can be
increased through effort and persistence
achievement view of intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER - Associate with educational
attainment
