03-Psychology Quiz

According to George Kelly’s personal construct theory, individuals:

• Use personal constructs to interpret and predict the world.

• It depends entirely on biological predispositions

• Have a fixed set of traits that determine behavior.

• Avoid constructing theories about their experiences.

What is the core idea of existentialism in personality psychology?

• Personality is static and unchanging

• Human existence has no inherent meaning unless individuals assign one

• Humans are controlled entirely by environmental contingencies

• Personality is determined by unconscious drives

What did Abraham Maslow place at the top of his hierarchy of needs?

• Safety needs

• Self-actualization

• Love and belonging

• Esteem needs

What is the significance of “being-in-the-world” in existential thought?

• It rejects the subjective interpretation of reality.

• It promotes the idea of fixed universal truths.

• It suggests that the world is independent of human perception.

• It emphasizes the interdependence of the Self and the world.

What are “B-values” in Maslow’s theory?

• Basic motives for biological functions

• Incentives determined by external rewards

• Higher values like beauty, truth, and self-actualization

• Needs focused on physiological survival

Which approach integrates perceptions or subjective realities as valid data for analysis?

• Psychoanalytic

• Cognitive

• Behaviorist

• Phenomenological

What is the central element of Rollo May’s view on anxiety?

• Anxiety is inevitable in a life of freedom and choice.

• Anxiety only arises due to external pressures.

• Anxiety is a purely physiological response.

• Anxiety is a result of unresolved childhood conflicts.

Raymond Cattell's “Big Five” Personality Factors are

• Ugliness, Prettyness, Boldness, Courage, Laziness

• egoism , psychotics, neuroticism, introspection, reflection

• Radicalness, Purity, Energy, Talkative, Curiousness

• Extrovert, Agreeable, Conscientious, Neuroticism, Openness