Personality

Question 1

Personality is the most adequate conceptualization of a person’s behavior in all its detail

Answer 1

McClelland

Question 2

Personality as the individual as a
whole, his height and weight and love and hates and blood pressure and reflexes; his smiles and hopes and bowed legs and enlarged tonsils. It means all that anyone is and that he is trying to become

Answer 2

Menninger

Question 3

individual’s unique constellation of psychological traits that is relatively stable over time

Answer 3

Personality

Question 4

the measurement and evaluation of psychological traits, states, values, interests, attitudes, worldview, acculturation, sense of humor, cognitive and behavioral styles, and/or related individual characteristics

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Personality Assessment

Question 5

real physical entities that are bona fide mental structures in each personality

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Personality Traits

Question 6

generalized and focalized neuropsychic system with the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent, and to initiate and guide consistent forms of adaptive and expressive behavior

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Trait

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constellation of traits that is similar in pattern to one identified category of personality within a taxonomy of personalities

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Personality Type

Question 8

Melancholic, Phlegmatic,
Sanguine, and Choleric

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Hippocrates

Question 9

basis for MBTI

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Jung

Question 10

Artistic, Enterprising, Investigative, Social, Realistic, or Conventional

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Holland

Question 11

Friedman
competitiveness, haste, restlessness, impatience, feelings of being time pressured, and strong need for achievement and dominance

Answer 11

Type A

Question 12

Friedman
mellow and laid-back

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Type B

Question 13

narrative description, graph, table, or other representation of the extent to which a person has demonstrated certain targeted characteristics as a result of the administration or application of tools of assessment

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Profile

Question 14

the targeted characteristics are typically traits, states, or types

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Personality Profile

Question 15

process wherein information about the assessment is supplied by the examinee himself

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Self-report

Question 16

an instrument designed to yield information relevant to how an individual sees him or herself with regard to selected psychological variables

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Self-Concept Measure

Question 17

the degree to which a person has different self-concepts in different roles

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Self-concept differentiation

Question 18

tendency to respond to a test item or interview question in some characteristic manner regardless of the content of the item or the question

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Response Style

Question 19

used to describe the attempt to manipulate others’ impressions through the selective exposure of some information

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Impression Management

Question 20

present oneself in favorable light

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Social Desirable Response

Question 21

agree with whatever is presented

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Acquiescence

Question 22

make unusual or uncommon response

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Deviance

Question 23

make extreme ratings on the scale

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Extreme

Question 24

claim extreme virtue through self-presentation in a superlative manner

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Overly Positive

Question 25

person’s perception about the source of things that happen to him or her (external or internal)

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Locus of Control

Question 26

characterized by efforts to learn how a limited number of personality traits can be applied to all people

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Nomothetic Approach

Question 27

characterized by efforts to learn about each individual’s unique constellation of personality traits

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Idiographic Approach

Question 28

standard on which a judgment or decision can be made

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Criterion

Question 29

reference group of testtakers who share specific characteristics and whose responses to test items serve as a standard according to which items will be included in or discarded from the final version of a scale

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Criterion Group

Question 30

Contains 566 true-false items and was designed to aid to psychiatric diagnosis with adolescents and adults

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)