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.