CBSE Class 12 Psychology Self and Personality MCQs Set A

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
Answer: c

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
Answer: b

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

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
Answer: c

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

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
Answer: a

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)
Answer: d

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
Answer: b

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

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

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

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
Answer: a

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
Answer: a

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

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
Answer: c

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

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
Answer: c

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

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
Answer: b

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
Answer: c

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.
Answer: a

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
Answer: b

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
Answer: c

Question: In which of the following psycho-sexual stages of 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
Answer: a

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

Question: 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire was developed by—
a) Cattell
b) Allport
c) McKinley
d) Morgan
Answer: a

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

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
Answer: c

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
Answer: b

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

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
Answer: b

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

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 Adler
Answer: c

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
Answer: b

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

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
Answer: d

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

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
Answer: a

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

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

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

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
Answer: d

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
Answer: b

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

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
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following parts of body did Freud refer to as erogenous zones?
a) The mouth
b) The anus
c) The genitals
d) All of the above
Answer: d