The trait approach to personality
A. appears to have declined.
B. has changed to include explanations for personal constructs.
C. is alive and well.
D. has not advanced since the original theories of Murray and Cattell.
Question 2A psychologist is working on a book about student reactions to success and failure on exams. If he does a good job of researching the topic, he will find each of the following personality variables except one is useful in predicting the students' behavior. Which one?
A. Extraversion-introversion
B. Self-esteem
C. Locus of control
D. Explanatory style
Question 3One of the statistical tools available to personality researchers is the correlation coefficient. Research on which topic has relied most heavily on this statistic?
A. Dream interpretation
B. Big Five factors
C. Learned helplessness
D. Schemas
Question 4Which approach to personality probably has seen the greatest increase in interest among personality psychologists during the past decade?
A. Neo-Freudian
B. Trait
C. Biological
D. Humanistic
Question 5One similarity between Jung and Eysenck is that they both identified a personality variable they called
A. extraversion.
B. neuroticism.
C. sensing-feeling.
D. psychoticism.
Question 6The ____ was developed to measure individual differences proposed by ___ _ .
A. Rorschach inkblot test; Adler
B. Rep Test; Kelly
C. California Q-Sort; Kelly
D. MMPI; Allport
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