Allport believed that the best way to study personality was through:

(Answer to Q. 1)  ANS: C
FEEDBACK: The only proper way to study personality, Allport believed, was to collect data from emotionally healthy adults. Other populations, such as neurotics, children, and animals, should not be compared with normal adults.

(Answer to Q. 2)  ANS: D
FEEDBACK: Allport challenged Freud's psychoanalysis on several points. First, Allport did not accept the notion that unconscious forces dominate the personality of normal mature adults. Second, with regard to the importance of the past in determining the present, unlike Freud, Allport believed that we are not prisoners of childhood conflicts and past experiences. Third, Allport opposed collecting data from abnormal personalities. Whereas Freud saw a continuum between the normal and abnormal, Allport saw a clear distinction.

(Answer to Q. 3)  ANS: D
FEEDBACK: With regard to historical determinismthe importance of the past in determining the presentAllport said that we are not prisoners of childhood conflicts and past experiences, as Freud believed. Instead, we are guided more by the present and by our view of the future.

(Answer to Q. 4)  ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Gordon Allport made personality an academically respectable topic. Through his work, Allport served two purposes: He helped bring personality into the mainstream, and he formulated a theory of personality development in which traits play a prominent role.

(Answer to Q. 5)  ANS: Adolescence can be a turbulent and stressful period. Three key elements for this developmental stage have been identified. They are as follows:
1. Conflict with parents, characterized by a forceful resistance to adult authority.
2. Mood disruption, characterized by a volatile emotional life, mood swings, and episodes of depression.
3. Risky behaviors, characterized by reckless, rule-breaking, and antisocial behavior that may harm themselves and others.