Personality and Individual Differences Quiz

Question 1

What explains the similarity between identical twins reared together?

Accepted Answer

Shared genes and shared environment

Question 2

In which cluster of personality disorders is Antisocial Personality Disorder grouped?

Accepted Answer

Dramatic/emotional/erratic cluster

Question 3

What did Daly and Wilson describe as "biophobia"?

Accepted Answer

An aversion to biological, evolutionary, and genetic explanations

Question 4

The available evidence suggests that the heritability of cognitive ability is lower in ____ but only in ____.

Accepted Answer

low SES groups; the United States

Question 5

Which of the following is a common feature of personality disorders?

Accepted Answer

They are ego-syntonic

Question 6

Kermit loves sports, a trait he inherited from his mum. Kermit joins every sports team he can. This is an example of...

Accepted Answer

Active gene-environment correlation

Question 7

Who came up with the idea that, when it comes to socialization, peers matter more than parents?

Accepted Answer

Judith Rich Harris

Question 8

In Eysenck's personality model, most people score ______ in psychoticism.

Accepted Answer

low

Question 9

Which theory states that intelligence is the product of interactions between the frontal and parietal cortexes?

Accepted Answer

The P-FIT theory

Question 10

Eysenck's psychoticism is most closely related to which Big 5 trait(s)?

Accepted Answer

Conscientiousness and agreeableness

Question 11

What is the encephalization quotient (EQ)?

Accepted Answer

Brain size relative to expected brain size

Question 12

Many human sex differences are ______ at the mean, ______ at the extremes.

Accepted Answer

Small, large

Question 13

The Flynn effect refers to the fact that...

Accepted Answer

Average IQ is increasing

Question 14

Walter Mischel is best-known for the view that behaviour is due primarily to...

Accepted Answer

The situation

Question 15

The field that looks at the extent to which individual differences are due to genes vs. environment is called...

Accepted Answer

Behaviour genetics

Question 16

When one sex in a species invests MORE into offspring, that sex is usually...

Accepted Answer

Choosier about its mates

Question 17

According to behaviour geneticists, the two biggest influences on how people turn out are...

Accepted Answer

Genes and the nonshared environment

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT one of the causes of the Flynn effect?

Accepted Answer

Natural selection

Question 19

IQ is correlated with...

Accepted Answer

All of these things

Question 20

What is fluid intelligence?

Accepted Answer

Raw mental ability

Question 21

What are the Big 5 personality traits?

Accepted Answer

Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness

Question 22

For a given trait, if the correlation for identical twins reared apart is .5, what is the heritability estimate?

Accepted Answer

.5

Question 23

Which of the following animals are thought to be the most intelligent invertebrates?

Accepted Answer

Octopus

Question 24

Men are more prone to ______ jealousy; women are more prone to ______ jealousy.

Accepted Answer

Sexual; emotional

Question 25

How does crystallized intelligence change through the lifespan?

Accepted Answer

It peaks in middle age then declines slowly

Question 26

The heritability of personality is highest when personality is measured by...

Accepted Answer

Self-report and other-report combined

Question 27

Barney and Fred are siblings who both like food and music. Barney and Fred are most likely to be...

Accepted Answer

Regular siblings

Question 28

According to Eysenck, extraverts have ______ arousal, whereas introverts have ______ arousal.

Accepted Answer

low; high

Question 29

Who generally lives longest?

Accepted Answer

People with low neuroticism and high conscientiousness

Question 30

Which of the following is NOT a theory about the persistence of heritable individual differences?

Accepted Answer

Socialization

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