Ch. 8: Trait Aspects Of Personality

Which statistical technique was used by Raymond Cattell to derive his 16 basic personality traits?

One important distinction between the trait approach and a learning or conditioning approach is that the trait approach emphasizes:

In Allport's view, a person's cardinal dispositions:

What is one main difference between Jung's type theory and Allport's trait theory?

One important feature of the Big Five trait theory, as contrasted with Murray's needs-based approach, is that:

In recent years, research studies have indicated that college students are becoming increasingly:

Charlotte is considered by her friends to be very responsible and reliable. They are happy when she comes along on an outing, because they know that somebody will be bringing whatever is likely to be needed, and someone will have researched important information in advance. They also count on Charlotte to talk them out of doing anything dangerous. From the perspective of the Big Five, Charlotte would probably score very high on the dimension of:

When people rate the personality of another person on the Big Five:

Which of the following situations is an example of the concept of "zero acquaintance"?

Henry Murray's work on assessing motives revealed that:

Which instrument has been used to measure motives?

Which of these careers is a more likely choice for someone with the highest levels of dominance and need for power?

In his high-school classes, Torsten is the student who every classmate and every teacher knows by the second day of school. He is the "class clown," always attracting attention with the comments he calls out, and with jokes, pantomime acts, and exaggerated gestures. From the perspective of Henry Murray, what would be Torsten's most prominent need?

Expressive people tend to be perceived as more ________ than are unexpressive people.

Miguel has been assessed as having a high level of dominance. Which of the following behaviors would be surprising to see from him?