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Personality and Intelligence
Personality and Intelligence
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A psychology quiz to review important people and topics
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1
Freud believed that dream analysis was a useful device for
decreasing repression
strengthening the superego
displacing instinctual forces
sublimating the id
2
What is the spotlight effect?
the tendency to pay more attention to others
the pressure added when asked to accomplish difficult tasks
the tendency to always want to be the center of attention
an overestimate of the amount of attention by other people
3
Which of the following is NOT an example of a personal construct?
right-correct
good-bad
nice-mean
fun-boring
4
What is a Big Five factor?
conscious
introversion
extraversion
behaviorism
5
What is NOT a criticism of humanism?
its concepts are vague and subjective
its values are individualistic and self-centered
its assumptions about human nature are naive
its methods do not allow for reaching full potential
6
What perspective of psychology did Freud have?
behavioral
humanistic
psychoanalytic
trait
7
In a normal distribution, the percentage of scores that fall at or below the mean score is
66.6
50
17.5
25
8
which is a type of test designed to measure an individual's knowledge of a subject?
achievement
projective
attitude
aptitude
9
Sternberg says that what we define as intelligence actually consists of which distinct types?
convergent and divergent thinking
creative, academic, and practical
crystallized, fluid, and adaptive
verbal and performance
10
If your final represents a whole year's curriculum then the test has
construct validity
content validity
test-retest reliability
split-half reliability
11
Who is NOT a neo-Freudian?
Carl Rogers
Carl Jung
Karen Horney
Alfred Alder
12
What is self-actualization?
self-esteem
sexual intimacy
best self
security of body
13
What is the IQ of a ten-year-old child with a mental age of eight and a half years?
85
95
105
100
14
According to the socio-cultural perspective, personality is a product of a person's
childhood
personal traits
environment
behaviors
15
What is the id control (its job)?
instincts, pleasure
mediates for reality
conscience
moral compass
16
Who came up with the somatotype of personality?
William Sheldon
Carl Rogers
Hans Eyesenck
Hans Seyle
17
What is the Oedipus complex?
The brain area that contains urges, wishes, and desires.
Our need to seek high arousal to obtain homeostasis.
Jealousy to same-sex parent. Desire to opposite-sex parent.
The response that our body has to an emotion that we feel.
18
Is intelligence nature or nurture?
nature
nurture
19
What is NOT a defensive mechanism?
denial
reaction formation
rationalization
placement
20
What is the third level in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
esteem needs
belongingness and love needs
safety needs
self-actualization
21
Which of the following refers to the potential of an individual to perform an unlearned task?
achievement
project
interest
aptitude
22
John, an 18-year-old excels in multiple areas. Which of these demonstrates fluid intelligence?
soccer
problem-solving
art
music
23
According to Rogers, what is needed for a growth-promoting climate?
acceptance
a caretaker
kindness
sympathy
24
Which of the following is NOT correctly matched with their ideas?
Spearman - multiple intelligences
Binet - concept of mental age
Sternberg - triarchic theory of intelligence
Gardner - multiple intelligences
25
Transference is a recognized component of which of the following therapeutic treatments?
systematic desensitization
flooding
psychoanalysis
milieu therapy
26
Which of the following is NOT one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?
practical
musical
spatial
interpersonal
27
What is one's overall evaluation of his/her worth?
real self
ideal self
self-esteem
self-efficacy
28
What is a type of validity?
predictability
crystallized
fluid
content
29
What is MENSA?
disorder where a person has an extra 21st chromosome
the effect of intelligence scores changing over time
organization for the most intelligent people
disorder where the liver fails to produce necessary enzymes
30
Of the following topics, which would cognitive psychologist be most likely to study?
genetic determinants of behavior
conformity behavior of college students
problem-solving in chess
maturational processes in adolescent development
