Research by Chak and Leung on Internet addiction has shown that:
a. both internals and externals are completely addicted to the Internet.
b. neither internals nor externals are addicted to the Internet.
c. internals are more addicted to the Internet than externals.
d. internals are less addicted to the Internet than Externals.
Question 2
Forgiveness means that people:
a. must reconcile with the person who has injured them, take them back, and love him or her forever.
b. must excuse the harmdoer's behavior.
c. need always to love the harmdoer.
d. should take back control of his or her life, stop dwelling on the past, and start acting in a more constructive and healthy way.
Question 3
For self-control efforts to succeed, people:
a. should set up conflicting goals and keep trying to meet them.
b. keep their goals vague and flexible.
c. must set up clear goals and monitor them to see how well they are doing.
d. should always let others set their goals for them.
Question 4
Stigmatized groups of people who face negative stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are called:
a. majority groups
b. temperament groups
c. minority groups
d. competitive groups
Question 5
According to Ryckman, an adequate understanding of human personality will have to:
a. ignore the role played by unconscious factors in the determination of behavior
b. account for the roles played by both conscious and unconscious factors in the production of behavior
c. be based only on research that generates hypotheses about the biological roots of behavior
d. ignore the roles played by social and cultural factors in the shaping of human personality
Question 6
The Big Five factor that is defined in terms of a person's receptiveness to new ideas is called:
a. introversion
b. agreeableness
c. conscientiousness
d. openness to experience
Question 7
D.M. Buss examined the use of manipulation tactics by married couples as they related to differences on the Big Five factors and found that:
a. husbands high in Neuroticism used a pleasure induction tactic to convince their wives of the legitimacy of their arguments
b. husbands high in Neuroticism tended to use hardball tactics to get their way
c. wives high in Neuroticism tended to use reason to get their way
d. husbands high and low in Neuroticism both used repression as a tactic to get their own way