Chapter 10 – Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1

What is the implication of personality traits for a psychology of motivation?

People differ in what motivates them.

Motives are people’s major source of motivation.

What motivates a person is temporary.

People are motivated by a variety of psychological needs.

Question 2

How do personality traits affect motivation? Personality traits

determine the value or utility of different incentives.

determine whether people react positively or negatively to a situation.

answers a and b both apply

determine whether push or pull motivation occurs.

Question 3

What is the opposite of impulsiveness?

self-control

grit

personality states

fatigue

Question 4

Which sets of individuals are most similar in their degree of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?

identical twins

fraternal twins

parents and children

grandparents and grandchildren

Question 5

What is the implication of the statement that “personality traits are causes of behaviour?”

A person’s most frequent behaviours determine that person’s personality traits.

Personality traits are inherited brain processes that determine people’s reactions and choices.

Identical social situations motivate people’s behaviour the same way regardless of their personality differences.

Personality traits are merely categories of behaviour.

Question 6

Which statement best illustrates trait-environment correlation?

Individuals who score high on the Sensation Seeking Scale choose to ride motorcycles.

Individuals who score high on the Sensation Seeking Scale enjoy a fast motorcycle ride.

People high in conscientiousness get angry when they see other people littering.

People low in conscientiousness do not get upset when they see litter on their campus.

Question 7

What personality trait would correlate with being motivated to view paintings in an art museum?

openness-to-experience

agreeableness

extraversion

neuroticism

Question 8

Imagine that in an experiment, introverts and extraverts are instructed to think about an unpleasant experience (death of a loved one) and about a pleasant experience (going to your friend’s birthday party). How would these experiences affect the moods of introverts and extraverts?

The pleasant experience would affect the moods of introverts and extraverts equally.

The pleasant experience would put extraverts into a positive mood more than introverts.

The pleasant experience would raise the positive mood of introverts but not that of extraverts.

The unpleasant experience would put extraverts into a negative mood more than introverts.

Question 9

Assuming that intelligence is not a factor, which group of students are more motivated by school work and have higher GPAs? Students who are high in the personality trait of

openness-to-experience

neuroticism

agreeableness

conscientiousness