Multiple choice

1. Shelby is a very outgoing person who likes being around other people and socializing with them. According to the Big Five trait theory of personality, Shelby would be considered to be: showing signs of her masculine archetypes in her collective unconscious.

high on the stable and enduring personality disposition known as extraversion.

conditioned through past reinforcements to be uncomfortable in social settings.

using defense mechanisms to protect herself from feelings of inferiority.

2. Unlike psychodynamic approaches to personality, the learning approach emphasizes:

latent personality structures.

self-actualization processes.

the outer person.

biological traits.

3. To compare one person’s test scores to the scores of all other people who took the test, psychologists must know something about the test’s: projective nature.

subjective nature.

length.

norms.

4. The Minnesota Multi physic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is a test used primarily to measure: 

psychological disorders.

spatial relationships.

verbal intelligence.

unconscious motives.