Deck 14: Personality Theories in the 21st Century

Question 1

According to the book, one of the predicted trends in the future involve receiving significant feedback from what field of science?

A) forensics
B) neuroscience
C) language
D) chemistry

Answer 1

neuroscience

Question 2

Applying research in personality to practice is

A) considered the top priority in personality psychology.
B) a proposed strategy of increasing awareness of personality theories and their application to everyday behavior.
C) one of the trends predicted for personality psychology.
D) the next topic to be considered to drop from the field.

Answer 2

one of the trends predicted for personality psychology.

Question 3

"Hacking" living cells could mean

A) changing personality traits through manipulating or altering cells.
B) managing living cells on a daily basis.
C) conducting a series of experiments.
D) observing "hacked" brain cells.

Answer 3

changing personality traits through manipulating or altering cells.

Question 4

What is the co-occurrence of two or more chronic medical conditions in one person called?

A) diagnosis
B) risk factors
C) multimorbidity
D) correlates

Question 5

Studies on who have remained healthy through old age have generally found

A) personality traits can make one relatively healthy.
B) personality traits can decrease one's life span.
C) measurements of lifestyles need to be improved.
D) the unhealthiest lifestyle involves smoking, poor diet, and little exercise.

Question 6

Which of the following below has been reported to affect a person's life expectancy?

A) optimism
B) conscientiousness
C) extraversion
D) social dominance

Question 7

The key idea in research in the future is to establish the most significant personality factors in multimorbidity. One of the three personalities that is identified is

A) optimism.
B) neuroticism.
C) extraversion.
D) shyness.

Question 8

Low measures of sarcasm and irony is related to

A) low measures of neuroticism.
B) high measures of openness.
C) reduction of life expectancy by 10 years.
D) low measures of lying.

Question 9

Research shows that those who are short in height

A) are more likely to be frustrated, scared, and less trusting.
B) consider themselves as masculine as tall individuals.
C) tend to have low self-esteem.
D) are low in measures of neuroticism.

Question 10

What is an unpleasant feeling of falling short of traditional masculine gender norms that emphasize physical strength and decisiveness?

A) expectancies shortage
B) male discrepancy stress
C) male norm bias
D) shortage of standards

Question 11

Which of the following below is not a characteristic of "trolls"?

A) they exaggerate and lie
B) they sometimes praise but mostly offend
C) they are antisocial and sadistic
D) they have low expectations of themselves

Question 12

How do trolls exhibit their anger?

A) they displace their anger
B) they cause harm to others
C) they act them out in violent fights
D) they cry

Question 13

One proposed way to examine and study trolls' behavior is to

A) examine their postings, comments, and likes in online interactions.
B) place them in experiments and observe their behavior.
C) have them fill out surveys assessing characteristics associated with aggressive tendencies.
D) interview them.

Question 14

The question to ask about personality psychology today and in the future is

A) Can we scientifically examine personality traits?
B) Can we better able to examine personality variables now than yesterday?
C) Can we identify more personality traits relating to be happier?
D) Can we include novel experimental assessment measures?

Question 15

Forecasting what humans will do in the future is difficult because variables are too complex and interconnected.

Question 16

"Hacking" cells is a way to change personality traits.

Question 17

High scores on sense of humor are associated with a shorter life expectancy.

Question 18

A troll vents their negative emotions and antisocial impulses.

Question 19

______is the co-occurrence of two or more chronic medical conditions in one person.

Question 20

______ is considered a healthy trait that affects longevity.

Question 21

______ is an unpleasant feeling of falling short of traditional masculine gender norms that emphasize physical strength and decisiveness.

Question 22

A ______ is someone who enters an online discussion and posts comments for the purpose of upsetting the discussants.

Question 23

Discuss the reasons for the difficulty in forecasting what humans will do in the future.

Question 24

Discuss the characteristics of trolls.