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Which of the following is used to identify acts belonging to trait categories? |
| | A) | Act nominations |
| | B) | Prototypicality judgments |
| | C) | Monitoring act performance |
| | D) | Factor analysis |
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Which of the following correctly orders Eysenck's hierarchical structure? |
| | A) | Habitual acts, specific acts, narrow traits, super traits |
| | B) | Specific acts, habitual acts, narrow traits, super traits |
| | C) | Super traits, specific acts, habitual acts, narrow traits |
| | D) | Narrow traits, super traits, specific acts, habitual acts |
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Which of the following researchers proposed biological substrates for his traits? |
| | A) | Cattell |
| | B) | Wiggins |
| | C) | Eysenck |
| | D) | Leary |
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Eysenck's theory predicts that in a boring or easy task, |
| | A) | introverts would perform better than extraverts. |
| | B) | extraverts would perform better than introverts. |
| | C) | introverts and extraverts would perform equally well. |
| | D) | introverts would fall asleep and not finish the task. |
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Which of the following of Cattell's traits is most similar to extraversion? |
| | A) | Interpersonal warmth |
| | B) | Intelligence |
| | C) | Emotional stability |
| | D) | Conformity |
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Recent evidence suggests that ______ is the cardinal feature of extraversion. |
| | A) | agreeableness |
| | B) | conscientiousness |
| | C) | social attention |
| | D) | none of these |
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A person who is adventurous and sociable would score high on the trait of |
| | A) | surgency. |
| | B) | agreeableness. |
| | C) | conscientiousness. |
| | D) | emotional stability. |
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The five factor model is NOT based on |
| | A) | the lexical approach. |
| | B) | the statistical approach. |
| | C) | factor analysis. |
| | D) | emotional stability. |
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The circumplex dimensions of "dominance" and "agreeableness" could be subsumed under the five-factor traits of ___________. |
| | A) | "conscientiousness" and "emotional stability." |
| | B) | "emotional stability" and "culture." |
| | C) | "culture" and "surgency." |
| | D) | "surgency" and "agreeableness." |
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The fundamental question that guides the study of personality traits is |
| | A) | "How should we conceptualize traits?" |
| | B) | "How can we identify which traits are the most important?" |
| | C) | "How can we formulate a comprehensive taxonomy of traits?" |
| | D) | all of these questions are fundamental to the study of personality traits. |
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