Top 50+ Solved Personality MCQ Questions Answer
Q. One trait that dominates a personality so much that it influences nearly everything a person does is
a. Global Trait
b. Cardinal Trait
c. Specific trait
d. Central Trait
Q. The method of science requires that independent observers must:
a. verify data
b. state a hypothesis in a form that can be tested
c. derive a hypothesis from theory
d. All of the above
Q. Talkative vs. silent; frank, open vs. secretive; adventurous vs. cautious; sociable vs. reclusivethesetraits describe which dimension of personality?
a. Agreeableness
b. Conscientiousness
c. Extraversion
d. Culture
Q. Approximately how many trait words for personality are there in the English language?
a. 18,000
b. 1,000
c. 10,000
d. 500
Q. Who is the pioneer that proposed the 16 basic dimensions of normal personality and devised aquestionnaire (16PF) to measure them?
a. Carl Jung
b. Raymond Cattell
c. Julian Rotter
d. Gordon Allport
Q. When analyzing a past president to describe his personality by coding letters or speeches he haswritten, you are using a process called
a. Big Five
b. content analysis
c. personality assumptions
d. Implicit Personality Theory
Q. The best known lexical research on terms relevant to personality was conducted by whom and howmany terms were compiled in this study?
a. Sheldon/3
b. Ancient Greeks/4
c. Allport/17,953
d. Gordon/5
Q. During psychology you are falling asleep. You know last night you only got three hours of sleep; therefore you have a valid reason. The person sitting in front of you is sleeping also. You automatically think that they are lazy and really dont care about the class. This is an example of
a. Halo effect
b. Implicit Personality Theory
c. Observer bias
d. stereotype
Q. Positive correlations (from 0.01 to 1.00) indicate that, as one factor goes ________, the otherfactor goes __________.
a. down, up
b. up, down
c. up, up
d. both a and b
Q. Which strategy IMPROVES the reliability of a research design?
a. make the test shorter
b. standardize all circumstances under which the test is administered, including instructions.
c. delete all items from the test that do not correlate with the other items.
d. b and c only
Q. Which of the statements below are FALSE?
a. Since Personality psychology has competing viewpoints, it is considered a paradigm.
b. Science judges the truth of statements based on the empirical methoD:)
c. Personality encompasses diverse qualities of individuals (E:)g., biology, social influences, childhood experiences, etC:))
d. Science demands that hypotheses be discarded if they are not confirmed by observation.
Q. Which range best targets the number of "Central Traits" that have been identified?
a. 5-8
b. 5-200
c. 17,000-18,000
d. 19,000-20,000
Q. Which of the following examples is most likely to have a negative correlation?
a. Number of hours spent studying and test scores
b. Amount of violent television viewed and number of aggressive acts committed
c. How many times the subject smiles per day and their unhappiness level
d. Weight and height
Q. he Ancient Greeks hypothesized that there were 4 different personality characteristics. The fourcharacteristics are
a. irritability, optimism, pessimism, calmness
b. calmness, depression, pessimism, irritability
c. depression, irritability, pessimism, optimism
d. irritability, depression, optimism, calmness
Q. Sheldon proposed three different types of traits. The traits that would best describe a footballplayer would be:
a. mesomorph
b. endomorph
c. ectomorph
d. actinomorphy