THEORIES OF PERSONALITY
INSTRUCTIONS:
Encircle the best and correct answer.
1. Marvin is angry and upset after an argument
with his boss. At home that evening he is harshly
and unreasonably critical of his son for not
getting all his homework completed. According
to Freud, Marvin is using.
A. Identification
B. Repression
C. Rationalization
D. Displacement
C. Bandura
D. Ericson
6. A personality theory is a(n)
A. Category used to describe personality.
B. Interrelated system of concepts used to
explain personality.
C. Relatively permanent set of behavior
patterns.
D. Subjective evaluation of a person.
7. The actualizing tendency and self-concept are to
_______ as reciprocal determination and selfefficacy are to ______.
A. Abraham Maslow; Hans Eysenck
B. Alfred Adler; Albert Bandura
C. Raymond Cattell; Carl Jung
D. Carl Rogers; Albert Bandura
2. Cherry considers herself to be an outgoing, funloving person, and she goes to a lot of parties.
Susan, on the other hand, thinks herself as fairly
quiet and shy, and enjoys being by herself,
reading a book and listening to classical music.
In Jung’s theory, Cherry’s and Susan’s different
behavior reflect.
A. The two basic personality types
B. The two important archetypes
C. A superior complex and inferiority
complex
D. Penis envy and womb envy
8. An HR assistant busy selecting from among the
applicants the contender for a position of a preschool teacher. Who among the following should
she choose?
A. an applicant who is thinking extrovert
B. an applicant who is a feeling extrovert
C. an applicant who is a seeming introvert
D. an applicant who is an intuiting introvert
3. Behavioral theories of personality are often
criticized for their
A. Inability to test or verify concepts
B. Limited recognition of temperament
motion and subjective factors.
C. Ability to explain behavior after the fact
only
D. Emphasis on the conditions under which
behavior occur.
9. Victor is born from a poor family whose parents
are illiterate. His parents cannot afford to send
him to school but he wants to be different from
his parents. He worked and supported himself.
Now he has already enter a university through
scholarship program. What theory of personality
will best explain Victor’s behavior?
A. May
B. Adler
C. Rogers
D. Freud
4. Kung babalangkas ng isang batas patungkol sa
karapatan ng mga kababaihan, alin sa mga
sumusunod ang batayan:
A. Psychodynamic
B. Humanistic
C. Behavioristic
D. Evolutionary
10. Horney believed that personality was typified by
A. A balance use of the neurotic trends in a
neurotic personality.
B. A lack of struggle in the use of the
neurotic trends in a healthy individual.
C. A balance between the idealized selfimage and real self
5. Every time two year old Kati is given a bath, she
plays with her genital area. If her parents punish
her, she is likely to experience frustration, which
of the following can explain if said child
becomes sexually preoccupied?
A. Freud
B. Skinner
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D. A consistency in the organismic self and
the ideal self
B. Identification
C. Self- Fulfilling Prophecy
D. Reciprocal Determinism
11. Unlike his brother and sister, Cynthia is lax
when it comes to her studies. She would
normally be absent or when she comes to school
she is usually late or drunk. Everyone was
surprise to see her studying and preparing for the
board exams. She had proved them wrong that
she is nobody when she toped the board exam
and now a well- known psychologist. What
theory can explain the change in Cynthia’s
behavior?
A. Horney
B. May
C. Fromm
D. Adler
16. __________ theory maximized and _________
theory minimized the role of the unconscious
A. Trait; Humanistic
B. Psychoanalytic; Behaviorist
C. Psychoanalytic; Humanistic
D. Trait; Behaviorist
17. Darwin is employed by his university as a
telephone operator for a fund- raising drive. He
lists a set amount of money for every ten calls he
makes, regardless of whether he is successful in
raising funds. Darwin’s telephone is reinforced
on schedule of reinforcement
A. Fixed- Interval
B. Variable- Interval
C. Fixed- Ratio
D. Variable- Ratio
12. During the meeting, an employee just went
along to the majority decision. This best reflects
which of the following?
A. Pakikitungo
B. Hiya
C. Pakikibagay
D. Pakikisama
18. David is a very quiet, pessimistic, anxious and
becomes emotionally upset very easily. His
personality type is
A. Introverted- Neurotic
B. Introverted- Stable
C. Extraverted- Neurotic
D. Extraverted- Stable
13. Miguel is giving a lecture on the five- factor
model of personality. Which of the personality
dimensions is not likely to be included in his
talk?
A. Anal Retentiveness
B. Extraversion
C. Neuroticism
D. Agreeableness
19. According to Jung, art, religion, myths, and
drama are important to individual functioning
because they
A. Facilitate conscious development.
B. Are symbols that appeal to basic
archetypes.
C. Provide the means of achieving control
over a hostile environment.
D. Transparent specific information for
solving the developmental task.
14. If a psychologist relies heavily on interview
techniques rather than self- report, said
psychologist is influenced by __________
paradigm.
A. Trait
B. Humanistic
C. Cognitive
D. Behaviorist
20. One of Freud’s major contributions was his
A. Belief that the first years of life help to
shape personality.
B. Belief in the concept of libido, sexual
desires, and biological instincts.
C. Discovery of complexes during the
genital stage.
D. Elaboration of the humanistic approach
to personality development.
15. Sheila was often rejected by her parents, as a
result she mistrust other people and treats them
with hostility, which leads to the rejection of her.
The cycle of rejection, mistrust and further
rejection illustrates
A. Self-Efficacy
21. What do psychologist mean by the term traitsituation interaction?
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A.
B.
C.
D.
Situation change traits.
Situation create new traits.
Traits determine situations.
Situation affects how traits are
exhibited.
B. Behavioral
C. Medical
D. Humanistic
28. According to behaviorists,
A. Hostile, generous, or destructive
impulses arise in the unconscious.
B. Personality is acquired through
conditioning and observational learning.
C. Personality is strongly influenced by
one’s self-image.
D. Personality develops from initial
feelings of inferiority.
22. Juan is a very experienced car mechanic who
believes he can fix any problem of a car or truck.
Juan is demonstrating
A. Self- Concept
B. Superiorly Complex
C. Self- Efficacy
D. Actual Tendency
29. The need to arise above ones passive accident is
A. individualism
B. self-actualization
C. transcendence
D. style of life
23. Gina loves playing the slot machine even though
she wins money only once in a while. Gina’s
gaming behavior likely to be very resistant to
expectation because
A. Partial Reinforcement Effect
B. Spontaneous Recovery
C. Stimulus Extinction
D. Stimulus Generalization
30. The _________ contains material of which you
may be unaware but can easily be brought to
awareness.
A. subconscious
B. preconscious
C. unconscious
D. conscious
24. Psychologist who believe that people grow and
develop throughout their lives and that people
are inherently good are
A. Psychoanalysts
B. Radical Behaviorist
C. Social Learning Theorists
D. Humanist
31. “To pamper a child is the same as to neglect.”
This statement is given by
A. Ma’am Oba
B. Carl Rogers
C. Alfred Adler
D. Karen Horney
25. The highest level of interaction that Filipinos
show if others are considered as hindi-ibang tao.
A. Pakikisangkot
B. Pakikipagpalagyang- Loob
C. Pakikiisa
D. Pakikisama
32. Safeguarding tendencies present exaggerated
feelings of superiority against.
A. Anxiety
B. Guilty
C. Public disgrace
D. An uncontrollable id
26. According to the humanist, __________ occurs
when people are free from independence on
external authority or on other people.
A. Autonomy
B. Spontaneity
C. Peak Experience
D. Task Centering
33. Juan suddenly lost his awareness to his physical
surrounding because of a minor accident. Juan
lost which of the following?
A. Diwa
B. Ulirat
C. Kamalayan
D. Isip
27. A psychiatrist who explains pathological
behavior as a conflict between underlying
psychological forces is using the ________
model.
A. Psychoanalytical
34. Which is included as one of the traits Maslow
theorized were possessed by self-actualizers?
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A.
B.
C.
D.
41. Jung believed that there are basic universal
concepts in all people regardless of culture
called
A. Persona
B. Collective consciousness
C. Archetypes
D. Mandalas
Egocentrism
Extraversion
Superior intelligence
Capacity to laugh at oneself
35. It is the last two-minute drive
A. Ningasbao
B. Ningas cogon
C. Pagpupursigi
D. Loob
42. The description of a person’s character implies
A. The use of rating scales.
B. The use of multiple observers.
C. The use of situational testing.
D. Judgment about the desirability of traits.
36. A key element of Carl Rogers’ personality
theory is the concept of
A. Meta-needs
B. The self of self-image
C. Self-reinforcement
D. The pleasure principle
43. The main criticism of humanistic theory is that
A. It emphasized the negative dimensions
of personality.
B. It is research rather than experience
oriented.
C. Its concepts are imprecise and difficult
to study objectively.
D. Its approach is more empirical than
philosophical.
37. According to Freud, the Oedipal and Electra
conflicts end when a child takes on the values
and behaviors of the same sex parent in a
process called
A. Fixation
B. Limitation
C. Observation
D. Identification
44. Best friends Vah, Gina and She failed in their
major subject. Both Vah and Gina believed that
it’s the end of the world and blamed their teacher
for their failure whereas she sees the failure as a
challenge to improve on her study habits. If She
were a psychologist she is probably influence
by:
A. Behavioristic
B. Humanistic
C. Cognitive
D. Psychodynamic
38. A person who is high in which the following
traits would be most likely to be psychologically
and physically healthy?
A. Neurotism, hostility, pessimism
B. Extraversion, hardiness, optimism
C. Conscientiousness, hostility,
extraversion
D. Agreeableness, pessimism, introversion
45. Horney believed that a competitive and hostile
society encourages.
A. Hatred
B. Love
C. Isolation
D. Superiority and success
39. Selina is noted for her tact, charm, and
sociability by her friends and family. Her
personality type is
A. Extraverted thinking
B. Extraverted feeling
C. Introverted judgment
D. Introverted feeling
46. Behaviorists are to the external environment as
humanist are to
A. Stress
B. Personal growth
C. Humankind
D. Internal conflicts
40. Horney believed that cultural conditions are
largely responsible for the development of
A. Basic trust
B. Basic mistrust
C. Basic anxiety
D. Basic psychoses
47. In conducting research in Filipino Psychology,
which of the following would be MOST likely
important in establishing rapport?
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A.
B.
C.
D.
53. Learning sex- appropriate behavior is greatly
influence
A. Self- informed and resolution of
unconscious conflict
B. Identification and imitation
C. Toilet training and early feeding
contacts
D. Valuing and self-regard
Pakikisama
Pakikitungo
Pakikipagpalagayang-loob
Pakikibagay
48. Self- actualization refers to
A. A tendency that personality problems.
B. What it is that makes certain men and
women famous
C. Anyone who is making full use of his or
her potential
D. The requirement necessary for becoming
famous, academically distinguished, or rich
54. Which of the following is POOR advice for a
person who wishes to promote selfactualization?
A. Seek peak experiences.
B. Take responsibility.
C. Be willing to change.
D. Try to live up to what others think you
should be.
49. According to the existential view, anxiety is seen
as a
A. Result of repressed sexuality
B. Part of the human condition
C. Neurotic symptom that needs to be
cured
D. Result of faulty learning
55. If you were asked to described the personality of
your best friend, and you said she was
optimistic, reserved, and friendly, you would be
using the ________ approach.
A. Psychodynamic
B. Analytical
C. Humanistic
D. Dispositional
50. __________ theories stress private, subjective
experience and personal growth.
A. Trait
B. Humanistic
C. Behavioristic
D. Psychodynamic
56. Vince experiences headaches every time he is
asked to turn in his projects. Vince is
experiencing
A. Style of life
B. Fictional finalism
C. Organ dialect
D. Organ inferiority
51. Horney regarded the idealized self- image and
self-hatred as
A. Interpersonal conflicts
B. Psychosexual conflicts
C. Psychosocial conflicts
D. Intrapsychic conflicts
57. Armida tend to argue whenever her group
members do not agree with her ideas, this
illustrates
A. Cardinal traits
B. Central traits
C. Secondary traits
D. Source traits
52. Which of the following is an example of a
circular thinking commonly manifested among
the traits psychologist.
A. Men are basically for they are made in
the image and likeness of God
B. Men are evil because of their
unexpressed complex and complex are
unlearned
C. Behaviors are the unlearned leads to
primary thought process when unlearned
leads to secondary thought process.
D. Stella is a leader where people listen to
her. When people listen to her she
demonstrates leadership.
58. Henry has a natural aptitude for mathematics
and philosophy, according to Jung, his
personality type would be
A. Extroverted thinking
B. Introverted thinking
C. Extroverted sensing
D. Introverted sensing
59. According to Adler, the creative power
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A. Usually leads to outstanding
accomplishments
B. Shapes one’s style of life
C. Is a deterministic concept
D. Is a secondary to heredity and
environment in shaping personality
D. Chances of developing a serious mental
illness.
66. Rogers calls the image if the person you would
like to be the
A. Ego ideal
B. Self-archetype
C. Ideal self
D. Reinforced self
60. Arthur is a shy and timid boy. He operates in this
belief that “if I give in, I won’t get hurt”. Arthur
is using
A. Moving away
B. Moving toward
C. Moving against
D. Moving on
67. Which personality theories attempt to explain
behavior by focusing on the inner workings of
the personality including internal conflicts?
A. Trait
B. Behavioristic
C. Psychodynamic
D. Humanistic
61. Ed has very few friends. When he is with his
classmates he acts like them scholarly; when he
is around his childhood neighbors he is as rude
as them and when he is at home he is as meek as
his father. Ed’s personality according to Fromm
is
A. Hoarding
B. Exploitative
C. Marketing
D. Receptive
62. In Adlers’s view, the main personality for
A. Dominance
B. Sophistication
C. Instincts
D. Superiority
68. Delaying action until it is appropriate describes
the ego’s use of the
A. Ego-dystonic behavior
B. Ego-systonic behavior
C. Primary thought process
D. Secondary thought process
69. The psychological situation, expectancy and
reinforcement various important concepts in
a. Social learning theory
b. Gestalt theories
c. Behaviorism
d. Instrumental conditioning
63. An overly strict or harsh superego will cause
A. Increasing levels of principle process
thinking
B. An anti-social personality
C. Inhibition, or intolerable guilt
70. __________ theorists believe humans have free
will
A. Humanistic
B. Behavioristic
C. Psychoanalytic
D. Trait
D. A breakdown of the libido
64. Concerning pure extroversion and pure
introversion, it is most accurate to say
A. A person is either one or the other.
B. Most people fall somewhere between
these extremes.
C. These terms were coined by the famous
Swiss psychologist, Gordon Allport.
D. They represent basic physical traits.
71. If positive reinforcement is not given within a
short time following the response, learning will
proceed slowly. This phenomenon is called
A. Delay of reinforcement
B. Extinction
C. Conditioned response
D. Consistency
65. Classifying people as having either a Type A or
Type B personality has been used to predict.
A. Competency as a parent.
B. Chances of suffering a heart attack.
C. Success in education
72. A poor person who is a kind and honest person
and respects the dignity of hard work has a lot
of:
A. Dangal
B. Paninindigan
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C. Katapatan
D. Kagandahang-loob
79. Doing things on a usual and routinely basis
Tina’s life boring. What theory can help explain
said boredom?
A. Fromm
B. Adler
C. Horney
D. May
73. Abraham Maslow developed the concept of selfactualization by initially studying
A. The maze-learning abilities of rats with
sub cortical lesions.
B. His own patients.
C. How children reacted to viewing
aggressive role models on television.
D. People who lives unusually effective
lives.
80. Which of the following could account for a
major personality changes in middle adulthood?
A. Moving to a new city
B. Changing your looks
C. Making new friends
D. A personal tragedy
74. Rogers called believed that when the real self
and ideal self are different
A. An individual cannot attain selfactualization
B. An individual can achieve selfactualization
C. An individual is in a state of imbalance
D. An individual is experiencing existential
vacuum
81. According to Jung, a mental storehouse for
unconscious ideas and images shared by all
humans is
A. The persona.
B. The personal unconscious.
C. The collective unconscious.
D. The anima.
82. A defining characteristic of trait is that they are
A. Fixed.
B. Observed.
C. Evaluative.
D. Enduring.
75. The messy and disorderly person is describe by
Freud as being
A. Orally retentive
B. Anally retentive
C. A phallic personality
D. Anally expulsive
76. Sa oras ng sakuna ang pinoy ay kinakikitaan ng
pagiging matulungin ng dahil sa anong value?
A. Bayanihan
B. Kapwa
C. Hiya
D. Pakikisama
83. Salespeople who are paid exclusively by
commission are reinforced on which type of
schedule?
A. Fixed ratio
B. Fixed interval
C. Variable ratio
D. Variable interval
77. Suppose the ego were a hungry person in a
crowded cafeteria. The ego would most likely
A. Do nothing.
B. Wait in line.
C. Push to the head of the line.
D. Feel guilty about being so hungry.
84. The personality theorist if Sullivan, Maslow,
Rogers, and others that emphasize
interpersonal relation deal mostly with ______
A. Umwelt
B. Mitwelt
C. Eigenwelt
D. Dasein
78. If you wanted to teach a chicken to “play” the
piano, you should
A. Wait for musically inclined chicken to
show up.
B. Extinguish piano-playing behavior.
C. Use shaping.
D. Use negative reinforcement.
85. During a discussion of various perspectives on
personality, Dr. Oh points to all evidence that
human beings are destructive and aggressive,
She points out to the million who died in wars
and the ongoing killings by riding in tandem that
continue in large part of Metro Manila. Dr. Oh
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observation about basic human nature support
the _______ perspective and is a criticism
________ perspective.
A. Humanistic; psychoanalytic
B. Trait; social cognitive
C. Social cognitive, trait
D. Psychoanalytic; humanistic
D. Ana has developed false pride because
of undeveloped concept of the self.
90. Which of the following is not true of the social
cognitive approach?
A. It emphasized the importance of
immediate experiences as determinants
of behavior.
B. It views reinforcement as necessary for
learning.
C. It argues that people’s actions are a
function of selection process acting
through evolution
D. It emphasizes the experiencing person
to
an
accepting
environmental
condition.
86. Dr. Mega Minds studies the effects of heredity
on behavior. One of the areas of his research
focuses on the similarities and differences in
identical twins who were separated at birth or
early infancy and raised by different families.
Dr. Mega Minds is most probably a (n)/.
A. Psychoanalyst
B. Humanistic psychologist
C. Social cognitive psychologist
D. Behavior geneticist
91. Another term for George Kelly’s approach to the
personality
A. Person- centered
B. Personal construction
C. Self- efficacy
D. Self-concept
87. Although Jaja has many fond memories of her
college days, she only vaguely remembers the
man she was engage to but left her suddenly for
another girl. Jaja is demonstrating
A. Identification
B. Sublimation
C. Denial
D. Repression
92. Jenna has great accomplishment and is adhered a
lot by her classmates. She got disturbed by
recurring dreams of similar content and went to
a doctor. Dr. Smith the psychologist interpreted
as a way to experience that which she is not. Dr.
Smith is probably influenced by
A. Freud
B. Adler
C. Jung
D. Horney
93. Jayson tried to train his potbellied pig to pick up
the newspaper on the doorstep and bring it into
the house. However, the pig pushed the paper
with his snout into the garden even though this
behavior would not to be rewarded. It appears
that the pig has been subject to
A. instinctual drift
B. stimulus discrimination
C. extinction
D. undoing
88. Sebastian during his college years is just one of
the many class. In fact he only attends classes
only when he finds the teacher interesting. Now
he is reviewing for the board exam. He attends
classes regularly and tops the quizzes and mock
board exams. His classmates could not believe
this change in him. What Filipino personality
can best explain what is happening to Sebastian?
A. Hiya
B. Ningas cogon
C. Kapwa
D. Amorpropio
89. Which of the following demonstrate epigenetic
principle?
A. Bob has not learned to perform addition
and is only learning it in his lesson in
division.
B. Cynthia has not learned to perform roles
with respect to her gender and is now
having difficulty in establishing intimate
relationships.
C. Ryan is developing strong feeling to her
therapist and is trying to overcome it
though the help of another therapist.
94. A major difference between the psychoanalytic
and trait perspective is that:
A. Trait theory defines personality in terms
of behavior, psychoanalytic theory in
terms of its underlying dynamics.
B. Trait theory describes the behavior but
does not attempt to describe it.
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C. Psychoanalytic theory emphasized the
origin of personality in childhood
sexuality.
D. All of the above are differences.
95. A group of four-year old children watch a video
showing an adult hitting, kicking and punching a
large Bobo doll. These children were later asked
to imitate the model and are promised a reward
for every behavior that they can imitate. It is
very probable that the children will
A. Not imitate the adult model
B. Verbally describe what they saw but will
refuse to imitate the adult model
C. Imitate the adult’s aggressive behavior
D. Become very upset as a result of
watching the aggressive behavior
96. Which of the following best illustrates classical
conditioning?
A. Henry feels ill at the sight or smell of
peanut butter because it once made him
sick.
B. Jewel studies hard because she wants to
pass the board exam.
C. Denise goes shopping for new clothes
fairly frequently because it makes her
feel good.
D. Karina drives at the posted speed limit
after getting a number of speeding
tickets.
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