home / study / science / biology / questions and answers / 1.cognitive approaches to personality focus on: ... Question: 1.Cognitive approaches to personality focus on: In... Bookmark 1.Cognitive approaches to personality focus on: Intelligence as the basis for personality Differences in how people process information Behavioral differences in response to the environment Anticipation of trauma 2. According to Witkin’s model, the “cognitive controls” that control individual information processing can be observed in: Performance on perceptual/spatial tasks Non-perceptual memory tasks Memory and recall tasks Planning and organizing tasks 3. The concept of emotional intelligence does NOT include which of the following: Impulse control Emotion regulation Social decoding Mind control 4. Little suggests that personality is a function of: Practice Traits Drive states Evolutionary advantage 5. Kelly suggests that reality is: A function of perceptual/spatial organization The result of environmental influences A function of individual construction The result of genetic predisposition 6. Homo sapiens shares approximately what percent of its DNA with chimpanzees: 68% 78% 88% 98% 7. The number of copies of genes passed to future generations is known as: Natural selection Fitness Heritablility Goodness 8. Which of the following would NOT represent a principle of evolutionary psychology: Stone age minds in modern skulls Neural circuitry designed by natural selection Complete consciousness that encompasses all mental experience The laws of physics and chemistry are required to explain current operation 9. Imprinting was explained by: Wilson Reed Kelley Lorenz 10. According to Buss, a wife is more likely to be disturbed by which of the following: Discovering that her husband is in love with another woman Discovering that her husband is in love with another man Discovering that her husband is having sex with another woman Discovering that her husband is having sex with another man 11. According to Buss, a husband is more likely to be disturbed by which of the following: Discovering that his wife is in love with another woman Discovering that his wife is in love with another man Discovering that his wife is having sex with another woman Discovering that his wife is having sex with another man 12. Phineas Gage’s personality was: Mostly intact after his accident Dramatically more docile after the accident Dramatically more aggressive after the accident Dramatically more happy after the accident 13. Hippocrates described pain as being the result of: Defect or excess in yellow bile, black bile, phlegm or blood Absence of yellow bile, black bile, phlegm or blood Balanced yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood 14. According to Sheldon, which of the following body types is most likely to have a love of risk: Ectomorph Mesomorph Endomorph None of the above 15. Eysneck suggested that introverts have: A generally underaroused condition A generally overaroused condition.

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1.Cognitive approaches to personality focus on: Intelligence as the basis for personality
Differences in how people process information Behavioral differences in response to the
environment Anticipation of trauma 2. According to Witkin’s model, the “cognitive controls”
that control individual information processing can be observed in: Performance on
perceptual/spatial tasks Non-perceptual memory tasks Memory and recall tasks Planning and
organizing tasks 3. The concept of emotional intelligence does NOT include which of the
following: Impulse control Emotion regulation Social decoding Mind control 4. Little suggests
that personality is a function of: Practice Traits Drive states Evolutionary advantage 5. Kelly
suggests that reality is: A function of perceptual/spatial organization The result of environmental
influences A function of individual construction The result of genetic predisposition 6. Homo
sapiens shares approximately what percent of its DNA with chimpanzees: 68% 78% 88% 98% 7.
The number of copies of genes passed to future generations is known as: Natural selection
Fitness Heritablility Goodness 8. Which of the following would NOT represent a principle of
evolutionary psychology: Stone age minds in modern skulls Neural circuitry designed by natural
selection Complete consciousness that encompasses all mental experience The laws of physics
and chemistry are required to explain current operation 9. Imprinting was explained by: Wilson
Reed Kelley Lorenz 10. According to Buss, a wife is more likely to be disturbed by which of the
following: Discovering that her husband is in love with another woman Discovering that her
husband is in love with another man Discovering that her husband is having sex with another
woman Discovering that her husband is having sex with another man 11. According to Buss, a
husband is more likely to be disturbed by which of the following: Discovering that his wife is in
love with another woman Discovering that his wife is in love with another man Discovering that
his wife is having sex with another woman Discovering that his wife is having sex with another
man 12. Phineas Gage’s personality was: Mostly intact after his accident Dramatically more
docile after the accident Dramatically more aggressive after the accident Dramatically more
happy after the accident 13. Hippocrates described pain as being the result of: Defect or excess in
yellow bile, black bile, phlegm or blood Absence of yellow bile, black bile, phlegm or blood
Balanced yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood 14. According to Sheldon, which of the
following body types is most likely to have a love of risk: Ectomorph Mesomorph Endomorph
None of the above 15. Eysneck suggested that introverts have: A generally underaroused
condition A generally overaroused condition A generally even condition A generally unstable
condition 16. According to research on Eysenck’s model: Introverts and extraverts are generally
equal in a resting state Introverts have lower arousal levels in a resting state Extraverts have

2. lower arousal levels in a resting state 17. Cloninger suggested that novelty-seeking behavior is
the result of: Low serotonin Low dopamine Low norepinephrin Low GABA 18. The BAS
system is more sensitive to: Rewards Punishment Risk Conflict 19. Which of the following are
less likely to be sensation seekers: Individuals with high serotonin Individuals with high GABA
Individuals with high MAO Individuals with high REM 20. Field dependent individuals tend to
be more: More reliant on teachers and peers Less reliant on teachers and peers Self-reliant
Reliant 21. If two people have similar construct systems, they will be psychologically similar
according to: Eysenck Cloninger Kelley Rotter 22. The expectancy model suggests that:
Learning depends on the degree to which a person values a reinforce People generally get what
they expect People’s expectations have little to do with the circumstances in which they find
themselves Reinforcement overrides dependence 23. In defensive pessimism, A person will
prepare for failure ahead of time Take the lead from other people in social situations Seek
reassurance 24. Which of the following is NOT a category of attribution: Stable or unstable
Global or specific External or internal Realistic or unrealistic 25. Elvis is quick to blame others
for his own shortcomings. His locus of control is: External Internal Lacking Overly developed
Solution
1. Differences in how people process information
2. Performance on perceptual/spatial tasks
3.social decoding as others are included
4.Drive states that move from one time to anotherin terms of the personalityy.