Deck 2: Personality, Virtues, and Happiness

Question 1

The dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions are called as ...........

A)personality
B)emotional stability
C)behaviour
D)trait

Answer 1

trait

Question 2

The VIA classification system of six virtues include all the following except ..........

A)curiosity
B)wisdom
C)justice
D)temperance

Answer 2

curiosity

Question 3

.......... has been conceptualized as an expert knowledge system associated with an advanced stage of cognitive and personality development.

A)wisdom
B)transcendence
C)curiosity
D)intelligence

Answer 3

wisdom

Question 4

The aesthetics facet belongs to which one of the big five personality trait?

A)conscientiousness
B)neuroticism
C)extraversion
D)openness to experience

Question 5

A global expectation that the future will bring a bounty of good things and scarcity of bad things is ..........

A)hope
B)dispositional optimism
C)learned optimism
D)positive illusion

Question 6

Which one of the following is not a dimension of big five personality?

A)psychoticism
B)neuroticism
C)emotional stability
D)agreeableness

Question 7

The virtue which represents our capacity for sympathy, empathy, compassion and love in our relationship with others.

A)temperance
B)transcendence
C)humanity
D)justice

Question 8

.......... is thankfulness to a deity or to the universe for specific things or for the experience of existence.

A)personal gratitude
B)transpersonal gratitude
C)dispositional gratitude
D)spirituality

Question 9

Seligman and Peterson have conceptualized optimism as ............

A)a personality trait
B)positive illusion
C)an explanatory style
D)a character strength

Question 10

The opposite end of the agreeableness continuum is ............

A)antagonism
B)deliberateness
C)sociability
D)emotional unstability

Question 11

Each virtue is defined by a set of .......... strengths that represent the ingredients, expressions and potential means of developing the virtue.

A)behavioural
B)character
C)personality
D)emotional

Question 12

............. is the capacity to accurately recognize the psychological states of self and others, and manage our own psychological states and social situations effectively.

A)wisdom
B)iq
C)social intelligence
D)self-awareness

Question 13

The ability to understand feelings in the self and others, and to use these feelings as informational guides for thinking and action

A)empathy
B)sympathy
C)emotional intelligence
D)self-awareness

Question 14

............ involves not acknowledging the existence or meaning of threatening or stressful events in the external world.

A)repression
B)projection
C)displacement
D)denial

Question 15

............ refers to people's level of discipline, self-control and organization

A)competence
B)agreeableness
C)conscientiousness
D)self-efficacy

Question 16

The virtue that provide the strength to control excesses and restrain impulses which may harm the self and others.

A)temperance
B)transcendence
C)justice
D)wisdom

Question 17

An individual's capacity to produce novel and useful ideas.

A)intelligence
B)wisdom
C)creativity
D)curiosity

Question 18

Teamwork belongs to the virtue of ..............

A)justice
B)humanity
C)temperance
D)leadership

Question 19

.............. involves registering, attending to, and deciphering emotional messages as they are expressed in facial expressions, voice tone, or cultural artefacts.

A)emotional competence
B)emotional perception
C)emotional understanding
D)emotional facilitation

Question 20

'People who experience flow in daily life tend to very happy'. This proposal constitute which type of happiness theory?

A)process/activity theories
B)need/goal satisfaction theories
C)genetic theories of happiness
D)personality predisposition theories

Question 21

An organized set of beliefs that allows to anticipate situations in which negative information is likely to be received about the self and then to develop strategies for dealing with these is ....................

A)positive illusion
B)negative illusion
C)positive self-schema
D)negative self-schema

Question 22

The book 'Denial of death' was written by

A)earnest becker
B)freud
C)aron beck
D)seligman