Personality Change

Description: This quiz assesses your understanding of personality change, its causes, and its implications.
Number of Questions: 15
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Which of the following is NOT a common cause of personality change?

  1. Maturation

  2. Life experiences

  3. Genetics

  4. Culture


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Genetics is not a common cause of personality change because personality is largely shaped by environmental factors, such as life experiences and culture.

According to Erik Erikson, what is the primary task of adolescence?

  1. Developing a sense of identity

  2. Achieving intimacy

  3. Establishing autonomy

  4. Becoming independent


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Erikson believed that the primary task of adolescence is to develop a sense of identity, which involves exploring different roles and values and coming to terms with one's own strengths and weaknesses.

Which of the following is NOT a defense mechanism?

  1. Repression

  2. Projection

  3. Rationalization

  4. Sublimation


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Sublimation is not a defense mechanism because it involves channeling unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable activities, rather than denying or distorting them.

What is the term for the tendency for people to seek out and remember information that confirms their existing beliefs?

  1. Confirmation bias

  2. Selective perception

  3. Illusory correlation

  4. Fundamental attribution error


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Confirmation bias is the tendency for people to seek out and remember information that confirms their existing beliefs, while ignoring or downplaying information that contradicts them.

Which of the following is NOT a stage in the Kübler-Ross model of grief?

  1. Denial

  2. Anger

  3. Bargaining

  4. Acceptance


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Bargaining is not a stage in the Kübler-Ross model of grief. The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

What is the term for the process by which people change their behavior in order to conform to the expectations of others?

  1. Socialization

  2. Acculturation

  3. Enculturation

  4. Conformity


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Conformity is the process by which people change their behavior in order to conform to the expectations of others.

Which of the following is NOT a factor that can contribute to personality change?

  1. Maturation

  2. Life experiences

  3. Culture

  4. Free will


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Free will is not a factor that can contribute to personality change because personality is largely shaped by environmental factors, such as life experiences and culture.

What is the term for the process by which people gradually become more similar to each other in their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors?

  1. Socialization

  2. Acculturation

  3. Enculturation

  4. Assimilation


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Assimilation is the process by which people gradually become more similar to each other in their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

Which of the following is NOT a common defense mechanism?

  1. Repression

  2. Projection

  3. Rationalization

  4. Catharsis


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Catharsis is not a common defense mechanism because it involves releasing pent-up emotions, rather than denying or distorting them.

What is the term for the tendency for people to attribute their own successes to internal factors and their failures to external factors?

  1. Self-serving bias

  2. Fundamental attribution error

  3. Illusory correlation

  4. Confirmation bias


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Self-serving bias is the tendency for people to attribute their own successes to internal factors and their failures to external factors.

Which of the following is NOT a stage in the Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?

  1. Infancy: Trust vs. Mistrust

  2. Early childhood: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt

  3. Preschool: Initiative vs. Guilt

  4. Adolescence: Identity vs. Role Confusion


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Preschool: Initiative vs. Guilt is not a stage in Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. The eight stages are Infancy: Trust vs. Mistrust, Early childhood: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt, Play age: Initiative vs. Guilt, School age: Industry vs. Inferiority, Adolescence: Identity vs. Role Confusion, Young adulthood: Intimacy vs. Isolation, Adulthood: Generativity vs. Stagnation, and Maturity: Integrity vs. Despair.

What is the term for the process by which people adopt the values and beliefs of the culture in which they live?

  1. Socialization

  2. Acculturation

  3. Enculturation

  4. Assimilation


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Enculturation is the process by which people adopt the values and beliefs of the culture in which they live.

Which of the following is NOT a common defense mechanism?

  1. Repression

  2. Projection

  3. Rationalization

  4. Displacement


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Displacement is not a common defense mechanism because it involves redirecting unacceptable impulses toward a less threatening target, rather than denying or distorting them.

What is the term for the tendency for people to overestimate the importance of their own personal qualities and abilities?

  1. Self-serving bias

  2. Fundamental attribution error

  3. Illusory correlation

  4. Confirmation bias


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Self-serving bias is the tendency for people to overestimate the importance of their own personal qualities and abilities.

Which of the following is NOT a stage in the Kübler-Ross model of grief?

  1. Denial

  2. Anger

  3. Bargaining

  4. Acceptance


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Bargaining is not a stage in the Kübler-Ross model of grief. The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

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