Test Bank - The Personality Puzzle 9th Edition by David C. Funder
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Chapter 1
1. Which of the following is NOT part of the psychological triad?
a. behavior
b. thoughts
c. psychological health
d. feelings
2. Personality psychology and clinical psychology overlap most often when
approaching which topic?
a. personality processes
b. personality disorders
c. personality development
d. None of the answer options is correct.
3. Personality psychology shares with clinical psychology
a. an emphasis on mental disorders and the treatment of psychological
problems.
b. a common obligation to try to understand the whole person.
c. a requirement that psychologists be licensed.
d. the fact that both personality psychologists and clinical psychologists are
usually in private practice rather than employed by universities.
4. Which subfield of psychology uses personality psychology to understand
vocational interests and occupational success and leadership?
, a. social
b. cultural
c. developmental
d. organizational
5. Personality is an individual’s characteristic patterns of
a. behavior.
b. emotion.
c. thought.
d. All of the answer options are correct.
6. The unique mandate of personality psychologists is to attempt to
a. identify and measure individual differences in ability and behavior.
b. determine the effect of the social environment on behavior.
c. explain whole, functioning persons and real-life concerns.
d. prevent or treat psychological personality disorders.
7. Advocates of any particular basic approach to personality historically
a. claimed that their approach explains everything worth explaining.
b. admitted that other approaches have their good points.
c. proudly asserted that they have deliberately limited what they have chosen
to look at.
d. claimed that approaches cannot be compared with each other.
8. In observing human behavior, it is impossible to
, a. understand everything about a person all at once.
b. choose to limit what you look at in a person.
c. find patterns across different kinds of observation.
d. make any real progress toward solving the personality puzzle.
9. The purpose of a basic approach (or paradigm) is to
a. expand the range of data you consider.
b. integrate diverse perspectives.
c. limit inquiry to certain kinds of observations and patterns.
d. resolve contradictions in data.
10.The phenomenological approach leads to which two directions of research?
a. humanistic and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
b. humanistic and social-learning perspectives on personality
c. cross-cultural and cognitive perspectives on personality
d. trait and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
11.Personality psychologists who adhere to the ________ approach try to
understand people by way of identifying, conceptualizing, and measuring the
ways in which people differ psychologically from one another.
a. psychoanalytic
b. trait
c. cognitive
d. phenomenological
, 12.Personality psychologists adhering to the ________ approach try to understand
people through the workings of the unconscious mind and the nature and
resolution of internal mental conflict.
a. psychoanalytic
b. trait
c. cognitive
d. phenomenological
13.The personality paradigm that focuses on rewards and punishments is known as
the ________ paradigm.
a. trait
b. behaviorist
c. phenomenological
d. psychoanalytic
14.Researchers studying ___________ apply the insights and methods derived from
the study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of personality.
a. psychoanalysis
b. personality traits
c. personality processes
d. the unconscious mind
15.Psychologists following the phenomenological approach
a. focus on the workings of the unconscious mind and the resolution of
internal mental conflict.
b. study how overt behavior is affected by rewards and punishments.
c. build theoretical models of how people process information.
Answers Included ✅
Chapter 1
1. Which of the following is NOT part of the psychological triad?
a. behavior
b. thoughts
c. psychological health
d. feelings
2. Personality psychology and clinical psychology overlap most often when
approaching which topic?
a. personality processes
b. personality disorders
c. personality development
d. None of the answer options is correct.
3. Personality psychology shares with clinical psychology
a. an emphasis on mental disorders and the treatment of psychological
problems.
b. a common obligation to try to understand the whole person.
c. a requirement that psychologists be licensed.
d. the fact that both personality psychologists and clinical psychologists are
usually in private practice rather than employed by universities.
4. Which subfield of psychology uses personality psychology to understand
vocational interests and occupational success and leadership?
, a. social
b. cultural
c. developmental
d. organizational
5. Personality is an individual’s characteristic patterns of
a. behavior.
b. emotion.
c. thought.
d. All of the answer options are correct.
6. The unique mandate of personality psychologists is to attempt to
a. identify and measure individual differences in ability and behavior.
b. determine the effect of the social environment on behavior.
c. explain whole, functioning persons and real-life concerns.
d. prevent or treat psychological personality disorders.
7. Advocates of any particular basic approach to personality historically
a. claimed that their approach explains everything worth explaining.
b. admitted that other approaches have their good points.
c. proudly asserted that they have deliberately limited what they have chosen
to look at.
d. claimed that approaches cannot be compared with each other.
8. In observing human behavior, it is impossible to
, a. understand everything about a person all at once.
b. choose to limit what you look at in a person.
c. find patterns across different kinds of observation.
d. make any real progress toward solving the personality puzzle.
9. The purpose of a basic approach (or paradigm) is to
a. expand the range of data you consider.
b. integrate diverse perspectives.
c. limit inquiry to certain kinds of observations and patterns.
d. resolve contradictions in data.
10.The phenomenological approach leads to which two directions of research?
a. humanistic and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
b. humanistic and social-learning perspectives on personality
c. cross-cultural and cognitive perspectives on personality
d. trait and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
11.Personality psychologists who adhere to the ________ approach try to
understand people by way of identifying, conceptualizing, and measuring the
ways in which people differ psychologically from one another.
a. psychoanalytic
b. trait
c. cognitive
d. phenomenological
, 12.Personality psychologists adhering to the ________ approach try to understand
people through the workings of the unconscious mind and the nature and
resolution of internal mental conflict.
a. psychoanalytic
b. trait
c. cognitive
d. phenomenological
13.The personality paradigm that focuses on rewards and punishments is known as
the ________ paradigm.
a. trait
b. behaviorist
c. phenomenological
d. psychoanalytic
14.Researchers studying ___________ apply the insights and methods derived from
the study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of personality.
a. psychoanalysis
b. personality traits
c. personality processes
d. the unconscious mind
15.Psychologists following the phenomenological approach
a. focus on the workings of the unconscious mind and the resolution of
internal mental conflict.
b. study how overt behavior is affected by rewards and punishments.
c. build theoretical models of how people process information.
