Chapter 12: Personality
True or False?
Remember – use the opportunity to review what you know about each topic.
Questions
- The psychodynamic approach was founded by Skinner.
 - Conscientiousness is one of the dimensions included in the five-factor model of personality.
 - The Rorschach is a projective measure of personality.
 - The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was love/belonging.
 - Carl Rogers was a well-known supporter of the psychodynamic approach.
 - Phrenologists believed that you could measure personality by feeling the bumps on a person’s skull.
 - Twin studies are helpful in understanding the contributions of nature and nurture to personality.
 - The genes of different members of the same species are almost identical.
 - According to Freud, from around 18 months to 3 years of age children experience sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent.
 - Traits are transient characteristics that influence our behaviour in specific situations.
 
Answers
- false
 - true
 - true
 - false
 - false
 - true
 - true
 - true
 - false
 - false