Personality Psychology quiz

More questions about Personality Psychology

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1. 1 Easy

   Why do people believe vague horoscope readings fit them according to this personality effect?

   Answer: Barnum effect

   Why: Psychologist Bertram Forer gave every student the exact same assessment and received an average accuracy rating of 4.3 out of 5.

2. 2 Medium

   Which process increases behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus?

   Answer: negative reinforcement

   Why: The word negative here means subtraction rather than unpleasantness, which is why the term is so routinely confused with punishment.

3. 3 Hard

   Hans Eysenck's PEN model includes Extraversion, Neuroticism, and what?

   Answer: psychoticism

   Why: He argued all three were biologically grounded, and the third has aged worst as a label for what it actually measures.

4. 4 Easy

   Which Swiss psychiatrist broke away from Sigmund Freud to found analytical psychology?

   Answer: Carl Jung

   Why: Freud originally viewed Jung as his intellectual heir before their bitter falling out over the nature of human drives.

5. 5 Medium

   What does modern research say about birth order's effect on personality?

   Answer: Almost no consistent effect

   Why: Large modern samples find differences so small they are dwarfed by family size and background.

6. 6 Hard

   What did Carl Jung say about a purely introverted or extroverted person?

   Answer: They would be in a lunatic asylum

   Why: He said it to an interviewer in 1957, calling the two terms only points of orientation and never a way to classify people.