Objective Questionnaire, Psychology Grade XII

Chapter 2. Self and Personality

1. Type B personality refers to absence of __________ personality ( Type A / Type C / Type D)

2. ____________works on pleasure principle. ( Id / Ego / Super Ego)
3. _________ devised the 16 PF to assess personality.
4. _________ Guna includes traits like truthfulness, cleanliness etc.,
5. Type D personality is prone to ___________.
6. Type C personality is prone to ___________.
7. Raju didn’t get admission to college, he told his friend that he never really wanted it. He is using
the _______ defence mechanism.
8. TAT was proposed by ________ .
9. The ________ are strong and muscular with rectangular body build.
10. Due to _________ we feel guilty.
11. Madhu likes ethnic clothes. This is her _________ trait. ( Cardinal / Central / Secondary )
12. _________ tests use ambiguous or unstructured stimuli to assess unconscious motives and
feelings.
13. In ___________ , a person defends against anxiety by adopting behaviour that is opposite to his
true feelings.
14. ________ gave the theory of Self Actualisation.
15. We totally refuse to accept reality in the ____________ kind of defence mechanism.
16. According to Sheldon, the Ectomorphs are artistic and introverts. ( True / False )
17. The ink blot test was designed by __________.
18. _________ or primordial images are not individually acquired, but are inherited.
19. The tendency of raters to place individuals in the middle of the scale is called _________.
20. ________ used the statistical technique of factor analysis to find the main source of traits.
21. ________ is a famous treatise in Ayurveda which classifies people on the basis of tridoshas.
22. _________ Guna includes traits like envy, jealousy etc.,
23. The literal meaning of personality is derived from the Latin word ___________ .
24. The way we perceive ourselves, our competencies and attributes is called ________ .
25. The value judgement of a person about himself / herself is called ________.
26. ________ refers to our ability to organise and monitor our own behaviour.
27. A person with high __________ , believes that S/he has the ability to select, influence and
construct the circumstances of His / Her own life.
28. The daughter love for her Father is called _______ complex according to Freud.
29. _______ refers to those attributes of a person that links herself / himself to a social cultural
group.
30. _______ refers to those attributes of a person that who make himself / herself different from
others.
31. ______ gave the concept of cardinal traits.
32. ________ is the test that explores the introversion, extroversion, psychotism and neurotisism.
33. _______ developed the therapeutic procedures of psychoanalysis.
34. The instinctual life force that energises the Id is called _______ .
35. The method of ego to reduce anxiety by distorting reality is called ________ .
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36. In ________ people attribute their own traits to others.

37. Failure of a child to pass successfully through a developmental stage leads to __________ at
that stage.
38. __________ had a view that every individual suffers from inferiority complex which arises
from childhood.
39. _________ gave the concept of identity crisis.
40. _________ argued that psychological disorders are caused by disturbed interpersonal
relationship during childhood.