Penny is being interviewed for a clerical job at the local insurance company
1.Penny is being interviewed for a clerical job at the local insurance company. Which personality trait would the interviewer rank above all others?
a) Agreeableness
b) Conscientiousness
c) Extraversion
2.Jana is a somewhat aggressive adolescent. Rather than acting out with her family and peers, she expresses her aggressive nature while playing video games. This demonstrates her ________ at work.
a) Id
b) Superego
c)Ego
3.Riley experiences anxiety whenever attempting to establish a romantic relationship. The therapist explains that this problem results from unfulfilled childhood desire for love and security because Riley was raised in an orphanage where there was little personal contact. Riley’s therapist’s statement reflects the views of
a) Alfred Adler.
b) Karen Horney.
c) Carl Jung.
4.Levi is 13 years old and has recently become interested in girls. He likes the way they look and wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl. According to Freud, Levi is in the ________ stage of development.
A) Anal
b) Phallic
c) Genital
5.The theorist who described personality in terms of people’s characteristic behaviors and conscious motives was
a) Albert Bandura.
b) Starke Hathaway.
c) Gordon Allport.
6.When Yonit thinks about herself, all the thoughts and feelings she has make up her _____, according to humanistic theorists.
a) self-concept
b) perspective
c)purpose
7.As a psychotherapist, Dr. Lazar would be LEAST likely to use the Big Five to understand
a) attachment differences.
b) brain structure differences.
c) the stability of personality.
