RIZAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

In Partial fulfilment in the subject SEMINAR 2

Questions in
Recognize and differentiate theories and perspective of personality

Prepared by:
Madriaga, Pauline Kaye
Mejia, Maricris
Naga, Dainne Zarah P.

Submitted to:
Dr. Crema T. Basuil

PART I. Choose the best answer.

1. It studies personality and its variation between individuals.
a. Personality traits
b. Personality Psychology
c. Personality type
2. This is the question whether humans have control on their own behaviour and
environments.
a. Uniqueness vs. universality
b. Active vs. reactive
c. Freedom vs. Determination
3. These are enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the
environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal
contexts.
a. Personality
b. Personality type
c. Personality Trait
4. Central traits, secondary traits, common traits, and cardinal traits are also
called______.
a. Primary traits
b. Dispositions
c. Four dimensional traits

5. This theorist defined personality as that which permits a prediction of what a

person will do in a given situation.
a. Gordon Alport
b. Lewis Goldberg
c. Raymond Cattell
6. The following are the Big Five Personality traits except:
a. Introversion
b. Agreeableness
c. Neuroticism
7. The following are characteristics of Openness to experience except:
a. Independent
b. Practical
c. Interest in variety
8. Personality Assessment System is an application of the theory of ____________.
a. John Gittingers
b. Lewis Goldberg
c. Heinz Kohut
9. This refers to the psychological classification.
a. Personality trait
b. Personality Type
c. Personality classifications

10. Type A and B was theorized during 1950 by who?

a. John Holland
b. Carl Jung
c. Meyer Friedman
11. Alfred Adler believed that the oldest child sets high achievement goals in order to
gain attention lost when younger siblings was born while middle children tend to
be _______.
a. More cooperative and practical
b. More competitive and ambitious
c. More independent and imaginative
12. According to Heinz Kohut, this is the exaggerated sense of oneself in which one
believed to exist in order to protect ones low self-esteem and sense of
worthlessness.
a. Neuroticism
b. Narcissism
c. Idealism
13. This theorist developed real and ideal self and believed that all people have
these two views of their own self.
a. Lewis Goldberg
b. Hanz Eysenck
c. Karen Horney

14. __________ is how humans act with regards to personality values and morals
while __________ is a construct individuals implement in order to conform to the
norms.
a. Real self; mirrored self
b. Real self; ideal self
c. Ideal self; real self
15. This theorist believed that children do bad things because of the behaviour
obtains attentions that serves as reinforcement.
a. Skinner
b. Bandura
c. Pavlov
16. This theorist suggested that forces of memory and emotions work in conjunction
with environmental influences.
a. Skinner
b. Bandura
c. Pavlov
17. In the characteristics of self-actualizers, which of the following maintains
constant enjoyment and awe in life?
a. Awareness
b. Acceptance
c. Democratic

18. In this theory, behaviour is explained as guided by cognitions about the world,
especially those about other people.
a. Cognitive-behaviour theory
b. Cognitive theory
c. Behaviour theory
19. This deal with the different ways in people explains events in their lives.
a. Achievement style
b. Affective style
c. Attribution style
20. Robert W. White investigated ______________________.
a. Humans need to survive for positive goals like competence and influence
b. The so called self-actualized persons
c. Humans operates by two independent information systems
21. It is the tendency to experience to negative emotions such as anger, anxiety and
depression.
a. Neuroticism
b. Narcissism
c. Egoism
22. Personality strongly influences ones values, attitudes, self-perception and
__________.
a. Expectations
b. Personal development
c. Assumptions

23. The idea of psychological types originated in the theoretical work of __________.
a. Sigmund Freud
b. David Keirsey
c. Carl Jung
24. Freud divides human personality into three significant components, the id, ego
and super ego. Id adheres to what principle?
a. Reality
b. Pleasure
c. Moral
25. Extraversion and introversion are accepted as psychological orientation and is
connected to two pairs of psychological functions which are:
a. Perceiving and judging
b. Thinking and judging
c. Sensing and perceiving
PART II Write if the statement is TRUE or FALSE.
1. The word personality originates from the Greek word persona which means
mask.
2. Personality is the patterns of characteristics, thoughts, feelings and behaviour
that distinguish one person from another and that persist over time and
situations.
3.

Theorist believed that traits are stable and unstable in a certain period of time
and is unique among individuals.

4. According to trait theory, there are two types of people, the introverts and
extraverts while according to type theory introversion and extraversion are a part
of continuous dimension with many people in the middle.
5. Behavioural psychology emphasizes that people have free will and that this plays
an active role in determining how they behave.

ANSWER KEY:
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. B
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. B
12. B
13. C
14. B
15. A
16. B
17. A
18. B
19. C
20. A
21. A
22. A
23. C
24. A
25. A

Part 2:
1. False
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False