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  • A. unrelated
  • B. similar
  • C. identical
  • D. conflicting

Explanation: Identical twins share genes, so their personalities tend to be similar, but different experiences prevent them from being perfectly…

Correct answer: similar
  • A. extraversion
  • B. openness
  • C. emotional stability
  • D. conscientiousness

Explanation: Conscientiousness reflects organization, responsibility, and self-discipline, so careless and disorganized behavior indicates low…

Correct answer: conscientiousness
  • A. meta - needs
  • B. the self or self - image
  • C. self - reinforcement
  • D. the pleasure principleTake Psychology Courses

Explanation: Rogers viewed the self-concept, or self-image, as central to personality and psychological adjustment.

Correct answer: the self or self - image
  • A. using projective tests to assess their motives
  • B. using free association and dream analysis
  • C. interpreting their flattering self - description as a self - serving bias
  • D. selectively studying people with qualities he admired

Explanation: Maslow selected people who already displayed qualities he valued, such as creativity, autonomy, and psychological health, so his personal…

Correct answer: selectively studying people with qualities he admired
  • A. Carl Rogers
  • B. Albert Bandura
  • C. Carl jung
  • D. Abraham Maslow

Explanation: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is based on Carl Jung's theory of psychological types, including preferences such as introversion versus…

Correct answer: Carl jung
  • A. Piaget
  • B. Freud
  • C. Rorschach
  • D. Jung

Explanation: Hermann Rorschach developed the inkblot technique, in which people’s interpretations of ambiguous images are used to explore personality…

Correct answer: Rorschach
  • A. projection
  • B. fixation
  • C. rationalization
  • D. repression

Explanation: Freud viewed slips of the tongue as signs that a repressed thought or wish had partly broken through into speech.

Correct answer: repression
  • A. biologically determined
  • B. relatively permanent and enduring
  • C. situation specific
  • D. shared by a group

Explanation: Traits are relatively stable characteristics, such as sociability or conscientiousness, that persist across time and situations.

Correct answer: relatively permanent and enduring
  • A. superego is to repetition principle
  • B. ego is to reality principle
  • C. ego is repetition principle
  • D. ego is to executive principle

Explanation: The id seeks immediate gratification according to the pleasure principle, whereas the ego manages demands according to the reality…

Correct answer: ego is to reality principle
  • A. the self - reference phenomenon
  • B. self- determination
  • C. free association
  • D. factor analysis

Explanation: Humanistic psychology stresses personal choice, growth, and the capacity for self-determination.

Correct answer: self- determination
  • A. the environment
  • B. collective unconscious
  • C. conflict
  • D. striving for superiority

Explanation: Adler proposed that people are motivated by feelings of inferiority and by striving for superiority or competence.

Correct answer: striving for superiority
  • A. Adler
  • B. Allport
  • C. Rogers
  • D. Bandura

Explanation: Albert Bandura represents the social-cognitive perspective, which explains personality through reciprocal influences among behaviour…

Correct answer: Bandura
  • A. Id
  • B. Ego
  • C. Superego
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Freud’s structural model divides personality into the id, ego and superego.

Correct answer: All of these
  • A. Resistance
  • B. Analysis
  • C. Transference
  • D. Catharsis

Explanation: Transference occurs when a patient redirects feelings and expectations from important earlier relationships onto the psychoanalyst.

Correct answer: Transference
  • A. Karen Horney
  • B. Carl Jung
  • C. Harry Stack Sullivan
  • D. Alfred adler

Explanation: Alfred Adler emphasised the innate striving for superiority or self-improvement, which develops as people overcome feelings of…

Correct answer: Alfred adler
  • A. developmental psychology
  • B. personality psychology
  • C. biological psychology
  • D. social psychology

Explanation: Personality psychology studies relatively stable individual differences, including traits such as anxiety and self-esteem, and develops…

Correct answer: personality psychology
  • A. the id and the superego
  • B. self-actualizing tendencies
  • C. forces in the unconscious
  • D. forces in the environmentPolitical Science Mcqs

Explanation: Freud’s psychodynamic theory holds that much of personality and behaviour is shaped by unconscious motives and conflicts.

Correct answer: forces in the unconscious
  • A. Gestalt psychologists
  • B. behaviorists
  • C. cognitive psychologists
  • D. humanists

Explanation: Humanistic psychologists emphasize individual uniqueness, personal freedom, self-direction, and the potential for growth.

Correct answer: humanists
  • A. neuroticism
  • B. temperament
  • C. extroversion
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: Identical twins share virtually all of their genes, so they tend to resemble fraternal twins more strongly in temperament and personality…

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. a criterion-based
  • B. an aptitude
  • C. an achievement
  • D. a projective

Explanation: The Thematic Apperception Test uses ambiguous pictures and asks the person to create stories, allowing presumed underlying motives and…

Correct answer: a projective