Psych Ch. 13 Quiz
Which of the following accurately describes how factor analysis is used to identify personality traits?
Factor analysis identifies clusters of highly correlated specific behaviors that are assumed to reflect a single factor. C
______________ was defined as the distinctive and relatively consistent ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize a person's responses to various life situations.
Personality C
Which of the following perspectives on personality was generated using the statistical tool called factor analysis?
Raymond Cattell's 16 personality factor model
____________ are best described as relatively stable cognitive, emotional, and behavioral characteristics that help establish people's individual identities and distinguish them from others.
Traits
The "A" in the personality acronym OCEAN stands for
agreeableness.
Sally tends to be shy when she is in class, when she is with friends in her dorm, and also when she is home with her family. This example best demonstrates the concept of behavioral _____________, which is thought to be one of the factors that shapes our notions of personality.
consistency
Sigmund Freud's ideas regarding the power of the unconscious were shaped largely by observations of people with which of the following disorders?
conversion hysteria
A professor at a small college is teaching a physics course. After talking to several students who are receiving high grades in her class, she learns that almost all of them had the same physics instructor at a nearby high school. She decides that these students' common excellent academic performance is most likely due to their exposure to this gifted, high-school teacher. The reasoning of this professor is most similar to which of the following?
factor analysis
Often in personality research, ______________ is used to identify clusters of specific behaviors that are so highly associated with one another that they are assumed to be due to a single trait or basic dimension of personality.
factor analysis
Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory appears to have been heavily influenced by the ____________ models of his time
hydraulics
A person who is intellectual, imaginative, and has a broad range of interests would mostly likely score highly on a measure of
openness
Which of the following correctly lists the "Big Five" personality traits?
openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
According to the text, two common observations that give rise to the concept of "personality" are
organization and structure.
Although his original theory of personality has been and continues to be criticized, Sigmund Freud's ideas served to inspire the work of other personality theorists who made significant future contributions to the field. In this sense, Freud's theory could be considered "useful" because it
stimulated the discovery of new knowledge.
All of the following were methods that Sigmund Freud used to discover hidden unconscious material EXCEPT
sublimation
All of the following are characteristics of behaviors typically associated with the concept of personality, EXCEPT
they are viewed as being primarily caused by unconscious factors.
When treating people with conversion hysteria, Sigmund Freud noticed that people with this disorder often appeared to improve when.
they re-experienced traumatic memories and feelings.
