1. When it first appeared in English, the word ‘personality’ referred to what?

1. Personhood
2. Character
3. Temperament
4. Individuality

2. ‘Personality’ comes from the Latin persona, meaning ….

1. privacy
2. person
3. mask
4. attitude

3. Why is an emotion not a personality characteristic?

1. It is an intellectual characteristic
2. It is a physical property
3. It is transient
4. It is a broad pattern

4. Which of the following characteristics is difficult to define as either intellectual or non-intellectual individual differences?

1. Creativity
2. Emotional intelligence
3. Social intelligence
4. All of the above

5. How could we conceptualize the relationship between a musical taste and a personality disposition?

1. The disposition could be one facet of the taste
2. The disposition could be an enduring version of the taste
3. The taste could be one facet of the disposition
4. The taste could be an enduring version of the disposition

6. Prentice (1990) showed that …

1. personality characteristics are dispositional inferences
2. personality characteristics are central to how people define themselves
3. personality characteristics are important in impression formation
4. personality characteristics are components of stereotypes

7. Which of the following concepts best exemplifies a personality characteristic?

1. A disposition
2. A mood
3. A habit
4. An attitude

8. Which of the following would probably not be considered a personality characteristic?

1. Irritation
2. Curiosity
3. Extraversion
4. Carelessness

9. Which of the following would probably be considered a personality characteristic?

1. Anxiety
2. Mathematical aptitude
3. Voting conservative
4. Friendliness

10. Which statement best communicates the relevance of personality for social perception?

1. Impression formation focuses on intellectual characteristics
2. Personality characteristics are peripheral to the self-concept
3. Dispositional inference is a serious bias in impression formation
4. Stereotypes are largely composed of personality characteristics

11. Which of the following statements best defines ‘character’?

1. Personality characteristics that relate to morality and self-control
2. Personality characteristics that relate to being distinctive
3. Personality characteristics that relate to social learning
4. Personality characteristics that relate to innate tendencies

12. Which of the following statements best defines ‘temperament’?

1. Personality characteristics that are heavily socialized
2. Personality characteristics that relate to emotional instability
3. Personality characteristics that are innate and biologically based
4. Personality characteristics that relate to anger

13. Personality psychology is the only part of psychology that …

1. focuses on individual differences
2. focuses on the whole person
3. focuses on dispositional inference
4. focuses on specific mechanisms of the mind

14. Many subdisciplines within psychology treat individual differences as …

1. a nuisance
2. random error
3. uninteresting
4. all of the above

15. Social psychology differs from personality psychology by …

1. emphasizing internal influences on behaviour
2. emphasizing the whole person
3. emphasizing external influences on behaviour
4. emphasizing subcomponents of the person