Top 150+ Solved Personality Development MCQ Questions Answer
Q. A "strange-situation" setting is developed in a lab. After a mother and her young child are playing and interacting with each other as they so often do, the mother suddenly leaves. The observer witnesses the child becoming hysterical and upset, and when the mother returns, the child will not let go of her. The child is said to be
a. securely attached
b. anxiously attached
c. avoidantly attached
d. completely attached
Q. Which of the following is a way to measure activity level in an infant?
a. how often they smile
b. how much they sleep
c. how much they want to be held
d. all of the above
Q. Ever since Roxanne could remember, she had always wanted to be an Olympic gymnast?never once had she suggested anything else! In grade school, she asked parents to send her to gymnast team. When her friend asked her to go to "career day", Roxanne said that she didn?t need to. According to Marcia, she is demonstrating
a. identity achievement
b. identity diffusion
c. identity foreclosure
d. moratorium
Q. John and Jane have two children?Billy, 21 and Jerome who?s only 10. Which of the following statement is probably true?
a. billy has low n affil and high n ach
b. birth order has no impact on personality
c. jerome has high n ach and high n power
d. jerome?s personality will drastically change as he becomes older
Q. According to James Marcia, a person who has never doubted what they wanted to become and so never explored other options is considered to be
a. in moratorium
b. identity achieved
c. identity foreclosed
d. in identity diffusion status
Q. Which one of the following descriptions is best associated with Protestant Work Ethic?
a. always attributes success to ability
b. tends to spend money a lot
c. belief in the value of hard work
d. take credit for the work of others
Q. The identity status that Marcia came up with that involved the early acceptance of choice is what?
a. identity diffusion
b. identity foreclosure
c. moratorium
d. identity achievement
Q. Which would stress the idea of delay of gratification?
a. workaholic
b. work enthusiast
c. protestant work ethic
d. perfectionist
Q. Which style of love matches this statement "I try to keep my lover a little uncertain about my commitment to him/her"?
a. eros
b. ludus
c. storge
d. pragma
Q. Kathryn Mazzaferro Of the following, which is not considered a delay of gratification?
a. receiving a decent job, but holding out for a job with more pay and better hours
b. going to college
c. wanting to buy an article of clothes, but instead waiting for it to go on sale
d. buying a national enquirer in the check out line at the grocery store
Q. What aspect(s) of personality are believed to have evolved in humans?
a. overeating
b. quick response to danger
c. aggression in men
d. all of the above
Q. People high in the trait of ________ are more easily conditioned with emotional stimuli.
a. neuroticism
b. extraversion
c. psychoticism
d. agreeableness
Q. The research strategy for assessing personality stability that studies two or more groups assumed to be at different stages of development is
a. stratification
b. cross-sectional
c. binominal
d. longitudinal
Q. _________ vs. _________ achieved a high .75 on the heritability of Cattell?s 16 PF.
a. relaxed vs. tense
b. conservative vs. liberal
c. concrete vs. abstract
d. sober vs. enthusiastic
Q. Which of the following is NOT one of the Erikson?s stages of psychosocial development?
a. industry vs. inferiority
b. intimacy vs. isolation
c. trust vs. mistrust
d. life vs. death