Ch8 Test Bank Answers Personality And Individual Differences

Chapter 8: Personality and individual differences

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 01

1) ‘We are all unique individuals and our personalities are always evolving. A person’s personality is too complex to be measured using numbers or categories?’ Which of the following approaches to personality does this statement describe?

a. Ideographic

b. Nomothetic

c. Social-radical

d. Psychodynamic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 02

2) Which of the following approaches to personality has the underlying assumption that personalities can be measured and categorised, for example through a personality test?

a. Ideographic

b. Nomothetic

c. Social-radical

d. Psychodynamic

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 08 Question 03

3) The nomothetic approach sees personality as something that is measurable and which can be labelled with different categories.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 08 Question 04

4) The ideographic approach sees personality as something that is measurable and which can be labelled with different categories.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 05

5) In recruitment and selection, what is ‘predictive validity’?

a. A measure of how accurately a selection technique measures a candidate’s personality

b. A blend of different selection techniques, as found in an assessment centre

c. The impact the workplace has on personality development

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 08 Question 06

6) A list of desired skills, experience, and personality characteristics that is sent out to applicants for a job is known as a person ______.

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 08

8) For which of the following jobs would an extravert personality be more appropriate? Please select all that apply.

a. An auditor who spends a lot of their time scrutinising financial records

b. A research scientist whose job involves the analysis of a lot of data

c. A salesperson who approaches passers-by in busy shopping centres

d. A tour rep who organizes parties for holidaymakers several times a week

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 09

9) You wish to recruit a member of sales staff who will need to interact with many different people during the working day, building up an instant rapport with a variety of different clients. Which of the following personality types would your ideal candidate have?

a. Choleric

b. Introvert

c. Neurotic

d. Extravert

Type: matching question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 10

10) Match the following terms associated with personality to their correct definition.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 11

11) Which of the following Hippocratic personality groups found on Eysenck’s model of personality would describe someone who has a very calm, controlled, and even-tempered personality?

a. Sanguine

b. Phlegmatic

c. Choleric

d. Melancholic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 12

12) Using Eysenck’s model of personality, a person who is thoughtful, reliable, and even-tempered would be typical of which of Hippocrates’s four humours?

a. Melancholic

b. Choleric

c. Sanguine

d. Phlegmatic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 13

13) Which personality measuring instrument uses four scales and is derived from the work of Jung?

a. Cattell’s 16PF traits

b. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

c. Big five personality factors

d. Keirsey’s temperament sorter

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 14

14) Which of the Myers-Briggs scales would be used to assess the amount of empathy that an individual has with other people?

a. Extraversion/Introversion (E/I)

b. Sensing/Intuition (S/N)

c. Thinking/Feeling (T/F)

d. Judgement/Perception (J/P)

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 08 Question 15

15) Keirsey’s _________ sorter matches Myers-Briggs personality types to ideal professions.

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 17

17) Which of the following are true of the ideographic approach to personality? Please select all that apply.

a. Personality is dynamic and always changing over time

b. Personality can be measured using a personality test

c. Experiences throughout our lives shape our personality

d. Our personalities are a natural essence, just like the colour of our eyes

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 08 Question 18

18) Whether personality is an innate characteristic, or whether it changes and is influenced over time, is sometimes referred to as the nature vs ____ debate.

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 08 Question 19

19) Which of the following are reasons why interviews often give an incorrect perception of a candidate’s personality to the interviewers? Please select all that apply.

a. People tend to take account of aspects of the interview which reinforce their existing perceptions of the candidate.

b. Early perceptions of a candidate, whether good or bad, can influence how the candidate is viewed throughout the rest of the interview.

c. Stereotypes can lead to unfair discrimination against candidates based on their membership of particular social groups.

d. Interviewers tend to look favourably on candidates with similar characteristics to themselves.

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 08 Question 20

20) Structured interviews give a better predictive validity than unstructured interviews.

a. True

b. False

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 08 Question 21

21) An ___ centre approach blends several selection techniques in combination so as to not rely on the weaknesses of just one selection technique.