Quiz 3: Chapters 7-8 Emily Moran PSY-255 Please fill out the ScanTron form with your answers and please do not forget to fill in the bubbles with your name! 1. Which of the following assumptions underlies the trait approach to personality? A. Each person belongs in one and only one personality category. B. We can place a person somewhere along a continuum of behaviors. C. People in one personality category are distinctly different from people in other categories. D. Personality can change as a function of the situation the person is in. 2. If we say Ted is high on the personality trait of assertiveness, we would expect that he will act assertively A. all of the time. B. more often than someone low in assertiveness. C. in some situations that call for assertiveness, but not in others. D. because he puts himself in situations that call for assertion. 3. Which approach to personality has relatively little to say about why people behave the way they do? A. Trait B. Psychoanalytic C. Behavioral/social learning D. Cognitive 4. Traits were introduced into the field of personality psychology by A. Gordon Allport B. Raymond Cattell C. Carl Jung D. Henry Murray 5. A man is said to have one personality trait that dominates his personality. Allport would identify this personality trait as a A. common trait. B. central trait. C. cardinal trait. D. secondary trait. 6. A psychologist collects data from a large number of people. She places each person on a continuum ranging from high to low conscientiousness and makes predictions about how people in the high range will act compared to those in the low range. This psychologist is using which approach to understanding personality? A. Type approach B. Nomothetic approach C. Idiographic approach D. Common trait approach 7. Allport called the five to 10 traits that best describe an individual’s personality A. central traits. B. common traits. C. cardinal traits. D. the Big Five. 8. Personality psychologists use factor analysis to help them determine A. a person’s central traits. B. which personality traits correlate together. C. the stability of personality traits over time and situations. D. the validity of personality trait measures. 9. Alicia has an active imagination and a strong intellectual curiosity. She likes new ideas and unconventional ways of looking at problems. Alicia is probably high in A. agreeableness. B. neuroticism. C. conscientiousness. D. openness. 10. People high on the dimension are helpful and sympathetic to others. A. agreeableness B. openness C. conscientiousness D. psychoticism 11. Tonya often becomes upset over daily stressors. More than most people, she experiences such emotions as sadness, anger and anxiety. This description of Tonya is best accounted for by which of the factors in the five-factor model? A. Agreeableness B. Neuroticism C. Extraversion D. Openness 12. Compared to most of us, individuals who score high on Openness are more likely to A. tell a stranger all about themselves. B. change their self-concept. C. make friends easily. D. consider new ideas.