Multiple choice

1. In psychology, the study of personality focuses on: 

change.

stability.

external factors.

learned factors.

2. Carl Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious states that we share: 

inherited universal ideas, wishes, and memories.

common learning experiences in childhood or infancy.

tendencies to sacrifice ourselves individually for the group.

ideas that arise from, and are specific to, one’s own culture.

3. Which of the following categories was NOT a component of Gordon Allport’s trait theory? 

Cardinal traits

Secondary traits

Central traits

Identity traits

4. The Big Five in personality theories refers to which of the following? 

A set of fundamental traits such as neuroticism and openness to experience

The group of personality theorists who criticized Freud’s theory as too sexual

The effect of positive reinforcement on acquiring new behaviors

The number of stages in Freud’s theory of development