MCQ Chapter 2 Self and Personality Class 12 Psychology

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Self and Personality MCQ Questions Class 12 Psychology

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MCQ Questions Class 12 Psychology Self and Personality

Question. The five-factor model of personality was given by—
(a) H.J. Eysenck
(b) Morgan and Murray
(c) Paul Costa and Robert McCrae
(d) Hathaway and McKinley

Question. The MMPI inventory was devised by—
(a) Hathaway and McKinley
(b) Allport
(c) Eysenck
(d) Morgan and Murray

Question. The Trigunas are—
(a) Vata, Pitta, Kaph
(b) Sattva, Rajas, Tamas
(c) Pitta, Rajas, Sattva
(d) Kapha, Mastva, Pitta

Question. The ___________ are fat, soft and round.
(a) Endomorphs
(b) Ectomorphs
(c) Mesomorphs
(d) Metamorphs

Question. Social beings desire for freedom, striving for justice and truth are a part of whose theory?
(a) Erich Fromm
(b) Erick Erikson
(c) Carl Rogers
(d) J.P. Guilford

Question. What is the structural unit of personality for behaviourists?
(a) Response
(b) Fixation
(c) Stimulus
(d) Repression

Question. The ___________ is the original source of personality, present in the newborn infant.
(a) Id
(b) Ego
(c) Super ego
(d) None of the above

Question. The method of reducing anxiety called __________ is to push the impulse out of awareness into the unconscious.
(a) Regression
(b) Repression
(c) Suppression
(d) Ration

Question. Which of the following is most widely used projective technique?
(a) The Rorschach test
(b) The thematic apperception test
(c) 16 personality factor
(d) Both (a) and (b)

Question. ___________ refers to the characteristic patterns of behaviour and way of thinking that determine a person’s adjustment to his environment.
(a) Motivation
(b) Personality
(c) Development
(d) Thinking

Question. Who among the following psychologists divided all personalities into introverts and extraverts?
(a) Freud
(b) Carl Jung
(c) Adler
(d) Erikson

Question. Which of the following periods of psycho-sexual development was not considered by Freud to be very important to the development of personality?
(a) Oral stage
(b) Phallic
(c) Latency
(d) Genital

Question. According to Jung ________ are inherited ways of organizing, or reacting to our experience with the world.
(a) Collective unconscious
(b) Archetypes
(c) Personal unconscious
(d) Complex

Question. Which of the following personality types is described as noisy, callous and fond of physical activity?
(a) Endomorph
(b) Ectomorph
(c) Mesomorph
(d) None of the above

Question. _______ defined personality as “the dynamic organization within the individual of those psycho-physical systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment.”
(a) Sheldon
(b) G.W. Allport
(c) Kwarren
(d) Freud

Question. Who among the following psychologists has tried to describe personality in terms to traits?
(a) Cattell
(b) G.W. Allport
(c) Eyesenck
(d) All of the above

Question. Name one person who has contributed to the development of humanistic perspective of personality.
(a) J.P. Guilford
(b) Alfred Adler
(c) Carl Rogers
(d) Karen Horney

Question. What is the idea proposed by Carl Rogers?
(a) Adaptation
(b) Fully functioning person
(c) Socialisation
(d) Self-actualisation

Question. Which of the following scales has been useful in measuring anxiety, hostility, and hallucination, phobias and suicidal impulses?
(a) 16 PF list
(b) MMPI
(c) TAT
(d) Adjective check

Question. Which of the following approaches of personality emphasizes on-going inter-actions among motives, impulses and psychological processes?
(a) Type and trait approaches
(b) Dynamic approach
(c) Learning and behavioural approaches
(d) None of these

Question. Carl Jung’s theory is known as—
(a) Five Stage theory
(b) Analytical Psychology
(c) Cardinal theory
(d) One-factor theory

Question. Optimistic view of human life with emphasis on human growth and self-actualization, in the post-Freudian era was given by—
(a) Erik Erikson
(b) Erich Fromm
(c) Karen Horney
(d) Alfred Alder

Question. Which of the following levels of consciousness or awareness is proposed by Freud?
(a) The conscious
(b) The preconscious
(c) The unconscious
(d) All of the above

Question. Freud believed that if a child’s needs at one of the psycho-sexual stages were either unsatisfied or over satisfied. ________ would take place.
(a) Identification
(b) Fixation
(c) Repression
(d) Pleasure

Question. According to dynamic theorists, people use ________ to reduce their anxiety and guilt.
(a) Unconscious
(b) Defense mechanism
(c) Dreams
(d) Traits

Question. In which of the following psycho-sexual stage of the development pleasure is obtained through stimulation of the mouth?
(a) The oral stage
(b) The anal stage
(c) The phallic stage
(d) The genital stage

Question. ___________ have been devised as one method for uncovering unconscious motives.
(a) Inventory
(b) Projective tests
(c) Behavioural assessment
(d) Situational tests.

Question. 16 Personality factor questionnaire was developed by—
(a) Cattell
(b) Allport
(c) McKinley
(d) Morgan

Question. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was developed by:
(a) Morgan and Murray
(b) McKinley
(c) Allport
(d) Hathaway

Question. According to psycho-analytic theory, the sexual energy that underlines the biologically based urges is called the
(a) Ego
(b) Defense mechanisms
(c) Libido
(d) Oedipus

Question. The ___________ consists of elaborate ways of behaving and thinking which constitute the ‘executive function’ of the person.
(a) Id
(b) Ego
(c) Super ego
(d) Dream

Question. ________ refers to our ability to organize and monitor our own behaviour.
(a) Self-efficiency
(b) Self-esteem
(c) Self-regulation
(d) Self-concept

Question. As persons we always make some judgment about our own self is known as—
(a) Self –regulation
(b) Self-esteem
(c) Self-concept
(d) Self-efficacy

Question. The theory of self-actualization was given by—
(a) Carl Rogers
(b) Karen Horney
(c) Erik Erikson
(d) Abraham Maslow

Question. Situation tests are:
(a) Those which provide us with information about how a person behaves under stressful situation.
(b) Those used for assessment of personality in educational and industrial settings.
(c) Those used for the assessment of personality of a person.
(d) Those which involve talking to the person being assessed and asking specific questions.

Question. _______ emerges in relationship with others and emphasises such aspects of life as unity and co-operation is known as
(a) Personal self
(b) Social self
(c) Social identity
(d) Personal identity

Question. A __________ refers to any characteristics in which one individual differs from another in a relatively permanent and consistent way.
(a) Personality
(b) Trait
(c) Humanistic
(d) Concept

Question. Who among the following saw personality as composed of three major systems, the Id, the ego and the super ego?
(a) Carl Jung
(b) Erik Erikson
(c) Sigmund Freud
(d) Erik Fromm

Question. _______ refers to the totality of an individual’s conscious experiences, ideas, thoughts and feelings with regard to himself/herself.
(a) Personality
(b) Trait
(c) Self
(d) Repression

Question. ‘Personal Goals’ and ‘Inferiority Complex’ are a part of which theory?
(a) Individual Psychology
(b) Pro-social theory
(c) Five stage theory
(d) Analytical Psychology

Question. Which approach attempts to understand personality in relation to the features of environmental and cultural environment?
(a) Humanistic Approach
(b) Behavioural Approach
(c) Cognitive Approach
(d) Cultural Approach

Question. The ego obeys the ______ principle.
(a) Pleasure
(b) Reality
(c) Moral
(d) Perfection

Question. _______ refers to those attributes of a person that make him/her different from others.
(a) Social identity
(b) Personal identity
(c) Social control
(d) Social self

Question. Self-efficacy is based on social learning theory of
(a) Carl Jung
(b) Erikson
(c) Freud
(d) Bandura

Question. Which of the following systems is the internalized representation of the values and morals of society as taught to the child by the parents and others?
(a) Id
(b) Ego
(c) Super ego
(d) Libido

Question. Freud described ____________ as “the royal road to the unconscious.”
(a) Id
(b) Dreams
(c) Sex
(d) Aggressions

Question. Which of the following parts of body Freud referred as erogenous zones?
(a) The mouth
(b) The anus
(c) The genitals
(d) All of the above