Personality Review Questions for AP Psychology

The study guides for these review questions can be found at:

• Personality Theories and Approaches for AP Psychology
• Persoanlity Assessment Techniques for AP Psychology

Review Questions

Directions: For each question, choose the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. Adam loved the girlfriend who dropped him, but acts as if he's glad to be rid of her. His behavior most clearly illustrates which of the following Freudian defense mechanisms?
   1. repression
   2. projection
   3. reaction formation
   4. sublimation
   5. regression
2. Which Freudian personality system is guided by the reality principle?
   1. id
   2. libido
   3. ego
   4. unconscious
   5. superego
3. In contrast to the blank slate view of human nature held by the behaviorists, humanists believe humans are born
   1. evil and instinctively selfish
   2. good and with an inner drive to reach full potential
   3. neutral and that personality is based on perceptions of reality
   4. neither good nor evil, but personality is a product of their environment
   5. weak and needing others to find a meaning and purpose in life
4. Which of the following is a good example of a Jungian archetype?
   1. John, whose domineering mother's voice is always in the back of his head
   2. Patty, who is haunted by her memories of child abuse
   3. Yan, who always roots for the underdog
   4. Tariq, who consciously strives to be the best tennis player he can be
   5. Kendra, whose power motive influences everything she does
5. Which is an example of a projective test, consisting of a set of ambiguous pictures about which people are asked to tell a story?
   1. TAT
   2. MMPI-2
   3. 16 PF
   4. NEO-PI
   5. Rorschach
6. In order to determine a client's personality, Carl Rogers used a Q-sort to measure the difference between
   1. self-esteem and self-efficacy
   2. ideal self and real self
   3. locus of control and self-actualization
   4. conditions of worth and locus of control
   5. ego strength and need for approval
7. Nomothetic studies CANNOT provide information about
   1. unique personality characteristics of an individual
   2. common traits that characterize most people
   3. personality dimensions that differentiate normal people from people with psychological disorders
   4. traits more common in older people compared with children
   5. personality characteristics of a typical teenager
8. Bertha is tall, thin, and frail. She enjoys studying and reading science fiction novels. She prefers to be alone rather than in a large group. According to Sheldon's somatotype theory of personality, she is
   1. an endomorph
   2. an ectomorph
   3. a mesomorph
   4. an extrovert
   5. an introvert
9. The most commonly used personality assessments are
   1. projective tests
   2. naturalistic observations
   3. structured interviews
   4. self-report inventories
   5. behavior assessments
10. Self-efficacy, according to Bandura, is
    1. how you view your worth as a person
    2. how you think about your self-image
    3. all you know about your deficiencies and weaknesses as a person
    4. what others have conditioned you to see in yourself
    5. how competent you feel to accomplish tasks and goals
11. Mother Theresa's altruism showed in everything she did. According to Allport's trait theory, Mother Theresa's altruism was
    1. a common trait she shared with most other religious people
    2. a cardinal trait
    3. one of several central traits that characterized her exceptional life
    4. basically inherited from her father
    5. a surface trait that was visible to others
12. Adler would not have agreed with the importance of which of the following ideas?
    1. birth order
    2. styles of life
    3. striving for superiority
    4. fictional finalism
    5. womb envy
13. Roberto believes that he is the master of his ship and in charge of his destiny. According to Rotter's theory of personality, Roberto has
    1. an external orientation to the world about him
    2. an internal locus of control
    3. an extraverted personality
    4. a low sense of self-efficacy
    5. a positive self-image, but is not self-actualized
14. Collective-efficacy would probably be more beneficial than self-efficacy for achieving group goals in
    1. Canada
    2. England
    3. Puerto Rico
    4. South Korea
    5. Monaco
15. A relatively permanent characteristic of personality that can be used to predict behavior is
    1. the id
    2. the ego
    3. the superego
    4. a defense mechanism
    5. a trait