PSY 255 QUIZ Quiz 1 Chapters 1-6 complete questions and answers 2020-2021 doc1. Which statement would be endorsed by a person who studies
personality?
a. The way we behave is determined entirely by what is going on
around us.
b. Most of the time we are actually not in control of our own
actions.
c. Behaviors originate within a person but can be influenced by
outside factors.
d. We are at the whim of our genetics, and must act as our
inheritance determines.
2. Which of the following is correct about the relation between personality
and culture?
a. Because personality is concerned with the person, personality
psychologists are not interested in cultural differences.
b. Most studies to date find few if any significant cross-cultural
differences in personality phenomena.
c. People and their personalities exist within a cultural context.
d. Individual differences in personality can be found only in
individualistic cultures.
3. Most of the research on personality reported in the textbook is based
on studies with people
a. from individualistic cultures.
b. from collectivist cultures.
c. with a strong sense of self.
d. who prefer cooperation to competition.
4. A researcher maintains that a person’s self-esteem level is largely
inherited from his or her parents. From this, she derives the prediction
that children with low self-esteem probably come from homes where