Week 12 Quiz

Which list names the Big Five personality dimensions in their standard OCEAN order?

Select one.

• Openness, conformity, extraversion, ambition, neuroticism
• Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
• Optimism, conscientiousness, empathy, agreeableness, nervousness
• Openness, confidence, extraversion, assertiveness, neuroticism

A classmate makes a study sheet of the Big Five and lists five dimensions. Which entry on the sheet is NOT one of the Big Five?

Select one.

• Conscientiousness
• Agreeableness
• Honesty
• Neuroticism

Dimitri, a project coordinator, misses a report deadline and tells a coworker, "My manager is the one who is disorganized." In Freud's theory, which defense mechanism does this show?

Select one.

• Projection, because he sees his own fault in someone else
• Displacement, because he moves his anger onto a safer target
• Rationalization, because he offers an acceptable excuse
• Denial, because he refuses to accept that the deadline passed

Two roommates, Jonah and Noor, are each read on all five Big Five dials. How many dial readings does that make in total?

Select one.

• 7
• 10
• 25
• 5

Read on the five dials, Jonah is high, high, low, high, and middle, and Noor is middle, low, high, high, and low, in OCEAN order. A quiz labels Jonah an introvert and Noor an extravert. Which statement best describes what the quiz misses?

Select one.

• Noor is an extravert, so she must also be low on agreeableness
• The quiz is accurate, because extraversion is the only dial that matters
• Jonah's low extraversion means he must be low on every other dial too
• Both roommates read high on agreeableness, a dial the quiz never reports

After a young player misses a penalty kick, her coach says, "You're still my player. Let's work on it at practice." Which idea does the coach's response show?

Select one.

• Self-efficacy, a belief about succeeding at one task
• Reciprocal determinism among person, behavior, and setting
• Unconditional positive regard, acceptance that does not depend on results
• Repression of an anxiety-provoking memory

Ines, a new line cook, comes to believe she can learn the grill station, so she asks for a turn; the head cook gives her more turns, and a smooth lunch rush raises her belief again. Which pair of ideas best describes this loop?

Select one.

• Self-efficacy within reciprocal determinism
• Conscientiousness within the Big Five
• Displacement within the psychodynamic family
• Self-concept within unconditional positive regard

A clinic is choosing between the MMPI, a self-report inventory, and the Rorschach inkblot test. Which statement matches the evidence?

Select one.

• The two tests have equally well-established reliability and validity
• The inkblot test is more reliable because it reaches hidden feelings
• Neither test has any evidence of reliability or validity at all
• The MMPI's evidence is well established; the inkblot test's is considerably weaker

A critic says a psychodynamic explanation can be fitted to any outcome after the fact: finishing early and finishing late can both be called defenses. Which property of a scientific claim does this criticism say is missing?

Select one.

• Reliability across two scorers
• Falsifiability, the chance to be shown wrong by data
• Random assignment to conditions
• A large enough sample size

The social-cognitive family explains personality through beliefs about yourself and through what you learn from your setting. Which two perspectives from the course's six does it most clearly combine?

Select one.

• The biological and the sociocultural perspectives
• The psychodynamic and the humanistic perspectives
• The behavioral and the cognitive perspectives
• The humanistic and the biological perspectives