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Quiz: McCrae/Costa and Eysenck
Due Dec 4 at 11:59pm Points 50 Questions 50
Time Limit 90 Minutes Allowed Attempts 3
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Covers theTextbookmaterial fromModule 6: Week 6.
Contains50 multiple-choicequestions.
Islimitedto 1hourand 30minutes.
Allows 3 attemptsand thehighestattempt will count towards the grade.
Isworth 50 points.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module 6: Week 6.
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Question 1
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According to Costa and McCrae, maladjustment occurs when:
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characteristic adaptations become too loose, relaxed, and/or
disorganized.
basic traits change over time in response to biological maturation.
people's adaptive responses are inconsistent with their personal
goals or cultural values.
All of the answers are correct.
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Question 2
Cattell's famous personality scale is called the:
NEO-Personality Inventory.
FIROB.
MBTI.
16 PF Scale.
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Question 3
According to Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, _____ are dened
as the universal raw material of personality capacities and
dispositions that are generally inferred rather than observed.
self-concepts
external inuences
characteristic adaptations
basic tendencies
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Question 4
Cattell classied traits that refer to how far or how fast one can
perform a given activity as _____ traits.
temperament
motivational
dynamic
ability
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Question 5
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The question of how we respond to opportunities and demands of
the social situation or context is what _____ are all about.
characteristic adaptations
external inuences
peripheral adaptations
basic tendencies
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Question 6
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In the context of the Five-Factor Model (FFM), which of the
following is one of the strongest and most ubiquitous personality
traits?
Openness to experience
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
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Question 7
Which of the following statements is true of the postulates for
characteristic adaptations?
People's responses are always consistent with their personal goals
or cultural values.
Traits affect the way people adapt to the changes in their
environment.
Traits are organized hierarchically from narrow and specic to
broad and general.
All personality traits are the result solely of endogenous forces
such as genes and hormones.
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Question 8
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According to Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, which of the
following statements is true of basic tendencies?
They are responsible for all acquired and specic skills, such as
the English language or statistics.
They uctuate, making them subject to change over a person's
lifetime.
They are inuenced by relationships that result from the interaction
of individuals with their environment.
They may be inherited, imprinted by early experience, or modied
by disease or psychological intervention.
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Question 9
Core components of the Five-Factor Theory include the _____,
which is the acquired personality structure that develops as people
adapt to their environment.
peripheral component
basic tendency
characteristic adaptation
objective biography
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Question 10
The advocates of the Five-Factor Theory favor the _____ rotation
method of factor analysis.
orthogonal
triangulated
oblique
hexagonal
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Question 11
Today, most researchers who study personality traits agree that
only _____ dominant traits continue to emerge from factor analytic
techniques.
3
5
7
16
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Question 12
People who score low on openness to experience tend to:
be conventional, down-to-earth, and prefer the familiar.
support traditional values and prefer a xed lifestyle.
be conservative, lacking in curiosity, and need closure.
All of the answers are correct.
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Question 13
McCrae and Costa's Five-Factor Model (FFM) can both _____ and
_____ behavior.
forecast? foretell
predict? explain
identify? analyze
measure? hypothesize
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Question 14
According to the Five-Factor Model, _____ describes people who
are ordered, controlled, organized, ambitious, achievement
focused, and self-disciplined.
conscientiousness
agreeableness
neuroticism
extraversion
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Question 15
Which of the following is not one of the postulates of basic
tendencies?
Individuality
Plasticity
Structure
Origin
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Question 16
The Five-Factor Model (FFM) includes _____ as a trait that reects
an affectionate, active, fun-loving, and passionate person.
neuroticism
extraversion
conscientiousness
openness to experience
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Question 17
"A theory organizes ndings to tell a coherent story, to bring into
focus those issues and phenomena that can and should be
explained." This quote is attributed to:
Eysenck.
Cattell.
Allport.
Costa and McCrae.
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Question 18
According to Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, which of the
following sentences is true of objective biography as a component
of personality?
It is the outcome of characteristic adaptations as well as external
inuences.
It is one of the core components of personality in the Five-Factor
Theory.
It emphasizes people's views or perceptions of their experiences.
It is principally inuenced by genes, hormones, and brain structure.
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Question 19
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According to Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, _____ is dened
as everything a person does, thinks, or feels across his or her
whole lifespan.
self-concept
basic tendency
objective biography
personal narrative
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Question 20
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In the Five-Factor Theory, behavior, in part, is predicted by three
core components. Which of the following is not a core component?
Self-concept
External inuences
Characteristic adaptations
Basic tendencies
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Question 21
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Characteristic adaptations differ from culture to culture because:
they uctuate over time and context, unlike basic tendencies,
which are stable and enduring.
external inuences such as acquired skills, habits, attitudes, and
relationships interact with the environment, leading to adaptation.
All of the answers are correct.
None of the answers is correct.
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Question 22
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McCrae and Costa (1996) objected to earlier personality theories
as relying too heavily on:
experimental evidence from laboratories.
factor analysis.
theoretical orientations.
clinical experiences and on armchair speculation.
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Question 23
Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa agreed with Hans J. Eysenck
that personality traits are _____ and follow a bell-shaped
distribution.
unipolar
bipolar
multipolar
tripolar
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Question 24
People who consistently seek out different and varied experiences
score high on:
openness to experience.
extraversion.
neuroticism.
conscientiousness.
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Question 25
Personality psychologists are more likely to attribute behavior to
_____ than are social psychologists.
day-to-minute situations
enduring traits
cognitive displacement
overt emotionalism
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Question 26
According to Hans J. Eysenck, which of the following statements is
true about people who score high on neuroticism?
They easily return to their normal emotional state after being
emotionally aroused.
They suffer from neurosis.
They have a tendency to overreact emotionally.
They have higher activation thresholds in the limbic system.
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Question 27
In Eysenck's theory of personality, the three basic factors of P, E,
and N are:
independent of each other.
primary traits.
negatively related to each other.
a single unied factor.
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Question 28
Eysenck argued that many experimental studies on the same topic
yield inconclusive or inconsistent results because the
experimenters failed to:
match participants on gender and age.
take personality factors into account.
use proper statistical procedures.
consider the motivation of participants.
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Question 29
Eysenck claimed that introverted neurotics are characterized by all
of the following except:
anxiety.
depression.
phobias.
hysteria.
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Question 30
According to Eysenck, an individual characterized by hysteria,
suggestibility, and somatic symptoms would score high on the
_____ scale.
extraversion
neuroticism
psychoticism
superego
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Question 31
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Which is not one of the four levels of behavior organization
recognized by Eysenck?
Spontaneous acts
Specic acts
Habitual acts
Types
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Question 32
Which of the following was proposed by Hans J. Eysenck?
Introverts have lower thresholds of arousal than do extraverts.
Extraverts perform best under conditions of relatively low sensory
stimulation.
People who are high in neuroticism have no grey matter in the
amygdala.
People who undergo expensive, painful, prolonged psychotherapy
are more likely to get better than those who receive no therapy.
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Question 33
According to Eysenck, high P scorers are:
punctual and precise.
caring and cooperative.
social and agreeable.
impulsive and hostile.
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Question 34
Eysenck's encounter with the fascist right and his later battles with
the radical left suggested to him that the trait of _____ was equally
prevalent in both extremes of the political spectrum.
egomania
narcissism
greed
authoritarianism
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Question 35
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What evidence did Eysenck present on the biological bases of
personality?
People in different parts of the world have different types of
personalities.
People tend to change their personality patterns as they age.
Identical twins have more similar personalities than fraternal twins
reared together.
Identical twins and fraternal twins reared together are equally
similar in their personalities.
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Question 36
According to Hans J. Eysenck, which of the following best
describes extraverts?
Thoughtful
Reserved
Optimistic
Quiet
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Question 37
According to the four-level hierarchy of behavior organization
proposed by Hans J. Eysenck, _____ are at the lowest level of
behavior organization.
types
traits
habitual acts
specic cognitions
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Question 38
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Eysenck's Factor P is a bipolar factor consisting of:
psychoticism and neuroticism.
psychoticism and superego.
proactivity and passivity.
punctuality and procrastination.
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Question 39
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Eysenck and Grossarth-Maticek found that:
people with a helpless, hopeless attitude tended to die more from
cancer than from heart disease.
people who reacted to frustration with anger and emotional
arousal tended to die more from cancer than from heart disease.
people who regarded their own autonomy as important had high
death rates from both cancer and heart disease.
no relationship existed between personality factors and disease.
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Question 40
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Eysenck believed that introverts are characterized by:
lower levels of cortical arousal.
higher levels of cortical arousal.
high sensory thresholds.
All of the answers are correct.
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Question 41
Which trait theorist was a native of Germany but lived and worked
for much of his professional life in England and at the University of
London?
Cattell
Kelly
Eysenck
Costa
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Question 42
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A major thrust of Eysenck's theory is that personality results from
the basic genetic and neurophysiological makeup of humans.
Which of the following biological research ndings supports this
assertion?
Cortical arousal and sensory stimulation levels match certain
personality traits.
Identical twins are much more likely to have the same basic trait
orientations.
Extraverts tend to think faster than introverts.
Introverts were found to outperform extraverts on tasks involving
motoric response rates.
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Question 43
Some people are vulnerable to psychiatric illness because they
have a genetic or acquired weakness that predisposes them to the
illness. This explanation for an illness is what Eysenck called the:
psychoticism factor.
hardiness model.
biological imperative.
diathesis-stress model.
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Question 44
Eysenck believed that the primary difference between extraverts
and introverts is one of:
mother-infant relationships.
objectivity/subjectivity.
neuroticism/stability.
cortical arousal level.
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Question 45
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Which of the following is not listed by Eysenck as a criterion for
identifying a factor?
It must possess social relevance.
There must be psychometric evidence for its existence.
It must be identied through the inductive method.
It must relate to some reasonable theory of personality.
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Question 46
Eysenck's three general types or superfactors are:
bipolar factors.
unique surface traits.
pathological factors.
surface traits.
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Question 47
According to the four-level hierarchy of behavior organization
proposed by Hans J. Eysenck, _____ are at the highest level of
behavior organization.
traits
specic acts
superfactors
habitual cognitions
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Question 48
According to Eysenck's ndings, cold, nonconforming, and
aggressive personalities tend to score high on:
extraversion.
introversion.
neuroticism.
psychoticism.
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Question 49
In Hans J. Eysenck's theory of personality, individuals who score
low on psychoticism tend to be:
nonconforming.
impulsive.
altruistic.
reserved.
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Question 50
Hans J. Eysenck described a trait as:
a cluster of surface factors.
a temporary attitude toward a person or event.
an important semi-permanent personality disposition.
an environmentally determined hypothetical construct that shapes
an individual's behavior and thought.
