1. Which of the following is an example of a conceptual nervous system in personality neuroscience?

1. The dopamine system
2. The Big Five
3. The pleasure system
4. a and c.

2. Pavlov’s typology suggested that personality differences arose from what properties of the nervous system?

1. Strength
2. Balance
3. Mobility
4. All of the above

3. After reading about Eysenck’s theory of personality, Beatrice speculates that she must have chronically low activity in the reticulo-cortical loop. Which aspect of her personality does this inference relate to?

1. Her (high) neuroticism
2. Her (high) extraversion
3. Her (low) neuroticism
4. Her (low) extraversion

4. In the study by Revelle, Amaral, and Turriff (1976), support for Eysenck’s theory of extraversion was shown through what finding?

1. Stress and caffeine improved cognitive performance for introverts but not extraverts
2. Stress and caffeine improved cognitive performance for extraverts but not introverts
3. Stress and caffeine improved cognitive performance for introverts but impaired it for extraverts
4. Stress and caffeine improved cognitive performance for extraverts but impaired it for introverts

5. According to Jeffrey Gray’s theory, the experience of goal conflict results in which emotion?

1. Anger
2. Anxiety
3. Confusion
4. Frustration

6. Which Big Five trait may be most closely linked to the Behavioral Inhibition System?

1. Conscientiousness
2. Neuroticism
3. Impulsivity
4. None of the above

7. Dopamine has been most closely linked with which Big Five trait?

1. Conscientiousness
2. Agreeableness
3. Extraversion
4. Affiliation

8. Which model in personality posits a conceptual nervous system that integrates elements of Reinforcement Sensitivity with traits concerning behavioural control or constraint?

1. Zuckerman’s Alternate Five Model
2. Carver et al.’s (2008) ‘Two Mode’ model
3. Both of the above
4. Neither of the above

9. Which of the following was not a finding in DeYoung et al.’s (2010) structural imaging study?

1. Extraversion was correlated with the volume of key reward-processing structures such as the nucleus accumbens
2. Neuroticism was correlated with the volume of key threat processing structures such as the amygdala
3. Openness/Intellect was correlated with the volume of structures involved in higher cognition such as the prefrontal cortex
4. Conscientiousness was correlated with the volume of structures involved in behavioural constraint, such as the lateral prefrontal cortex