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