THEORIES OF PERSONALITY

Unit - 1

1) Which structure of personality has no awareness of reality? ID

2) According to Freud, the portion of human personality representing the conscience is SUPEREGO

3) The erogenous zone in phallic stage is GENITAL

4) In which stage the sexual concerns is largely unimportant LATENT

5) What is rationalism? FINDING JUSTIFICATION FOR AN EVENT OR FELLING

6) The defense mechanism of regression involves what behavior? ACTING AS YOU WOULD HAVE AT A
YOUNGER AGE

7) To Jung, the two basic attitudes are INTROVERSION AND EXTROVERSION

8) Who said that Our personalities are shaped by our unique social environments and interactions, not
by our efforts to satisfy biological needs ALFRED ADLER

9) Intimacy vs. Isolation occurs at what stage?

DURING YOUNG ADULTHOOD

10) TRUE OR FALSE

During stage 1, it is necessary to develop a sense of mistrust TRUE

UNIT – 2

1) The force that underlie our motivation and Drive our behaviour DYNAMIC TRAITS

2) People around the person can easily notice his/her CENTRAL TRAITS

3) One trait that dominates a personality so much that it influences nearly everything a person does is a
CARDINAL TRAIT

4) People who rate high on the personality trait of ____ tend to be upbeat, optimistic and sociable.
EXTRAVERSION

5) Children learn to take pride in their accomplishments SELF ESTEEM

6) Children begin to apply reason and logic to the solution of everyday problems SELF RATIONAL COPPER

7) In stages of personality development the maturity lasts from 23 TO 50

8) Personality changes in response to physical and social Circumstances is LATE MATURITY

9) Single, stable permanent elements of our behavior is SOURCE TRAIT

10) A trait of personality that identifies extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and
openness to experience as the fundamental building blocks of personailty is FIVE FACTOR MODEL

UNIT – 3

1) Maslow described five innate needs as INSTINCTOID

2) Satisfaction of higher needs is GROWTH NEEDS

3) To know and to understand, which exist outside the hierarchy we have described is COGNITIVE NEEDS

4) As the self emerges, infants develop a need for what Rogers called POSITIVE REGARD.

5) The unique pattern created by each individual, is what Kelly called our CONSTRUCT SYSTEM.

6) The condition under which we grant our-

Selves acceptance and approval POSITIVE-SELF REGARD

7) A discrepancy between a Person’s self-concept And aspects of his or Her experience INCONGRUENCE

8) Correct Rogers believes that each person has a natural tendency towards growth and

SELF-ACTUALISATION

9)Maslow described humans as having an innate tendency towards HEALTHY GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT

10) What are deficiency motives, according to Maslow? BASIC NEEDS

UNIT – 4

1) The Classical Conditioning of Personality theory was proposed by IVAN PAVLO

2) In Pavlov’s experiment FOOD is considered an unconditioned response

3) If pairing of the conditioned and unconditioned stimulus stops then EXTINCTION May occur

4) If a reinforcement is reversed and reinforced after some time, what type of response occurs?
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT

5) Negative Reinforcement’ means – PRESENTING AN UNPLEASANT STIMULUS.

6) Learning through Reward and Punishment is OPERANT CONDITIONING

7) The concept of reward and punishment in learning is introduced by whom? B.F SKINNER

8) A child receives a star for every correct answer she gets. What reinforcement schedule is being used?
FIXED RATIO REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE
9) Analysis of avoidance learning suggests that many phobias are acquired through CLASSICAL
Conditioning.

10) A hungry pigeon was placed in the operant-conditioning apparatus and reinforced Every 15 seconds
on a FIXED-INTERVAL SCHEDULE

UNIT – 5

1) Albert Bandura was a proponent of which perspective of personality?

SOCIAL COGNITION

2) Bandura’s theory is based on which one of the following? SELF-EFFICACY

3)TOKEN ECONOMY is a system of behavior modification based on the systematic positive

reinforcement of target Behaviour.

4) A developed and mature ego becomes Integrated with the dynamic ground is TRANS-EGOIC

5) In spiral-dynamic perspective, the ego arises out of a SOURCE OR DYNAMIC GROUND

6) A desire to engage in physical activities involving Speed, danger, novelty, and defiance of gravity such
as parachuting, scuba diving, or bungee jumping is THRILL AND ADVENTURE seeking

7) Evidence suggests that LOCUS OF CONTROL is learned in childhood and is directly related to parental
behavior.