Question 1

The Victoria Longitudinal Study has drawn into question what conclusion made by personality researchers?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mean level change appears to occur at a significant level between the ages of 55 and 85.
B)  Personality measures increase in reliability with age.
C)  There is very little change in personality after the age of 50.
D)  Personality becomes more difficult to measure as people age.

Question 2

A longitudinal study of architects that spanned 25 years found that

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A)  successful architects scored high on conventionality and conservatism scales.
B)  impulsivity and flexibility scale scores increased with age for successful architects.
C)  successful architects had fewer health problems than less creative architects.
D)  successful architects scored high on independence and spontaneity scales.

Question 3

If an individual maintains his or her rank order for a trait relative to a group, but changes the behaviours manifested by that trait over time, that individual is exhibiting

Accepted Answer

A)  validity coefficients.
B)  rank order stability.
C)  personality coherence.
D)  mean level stability.

Question 4

Which level of analysis would consider the question, "Can we predict healthy aging from personality traits?"

Accepted Answer

A)  Individual differences
B)  Population
C)  Cultural differences
D)  Group differences

Question 5

North American women's scores for 1968 to 1993.
Rose from 1931 to 1945 and also from

Accepted Answer

A)  level of education
B)  assertiveness
C)  sensation seeking
D)  domesticity

Question 6

Self-esteem variability appears to be strongly related to the extent to which one's self-view can be influenced by

Accepted Answer

A)  the outcome of social events.
B)  levels of monoanalyse oxide.
C)  the self-esteem of others in the environment.
D)  the mean level of self-esteem.

Question 7

The Mills College longitudinal study of women found that homemakers' level of independence at age 21 versus that at age 43 suggests that

Accepted Answer

A)  homemakers' independence scores are likely to change little with age.
B)  the role a university-educated woman has in life is irrelevant to changes in personality.
C)  the roles women adopt are irrelevant to changes in independence.
D)  being a homemaker requires much more independence than originally believed.

Question 8

Temperament has been found to be

Accepted Answer

A)  more stable over short interval.
B)  more stable over long intervals.
C)  more stable in early infancy.
D)  unstable.

Question 9

A study found that men who had many childhood temper tantrums later

Accepted Answer

A)  achieved great financial success.
B)  had more successful military careers.
C)  achieved higher levels of academic success.
D)  were more likely to be divorced.

Question 10

The traits of extraversion, neuroticism, and openness tend to

Accepted Answer

A)  fluctuate greatly in mean level stability during adolescence.
B)  decline gradually with age until a person is about fifty years old.
C)  decrease markedly after a person reaches his or her sixties.
D)  increase substantially in a person's thirties.

Question 11

People whose actual selves are close to their ideal selves score high on measures of

Accepted Answer

A)  desired selves.
B)  feared selves.
C)  self-esteem.
D)  possible selves.

Question 12

"Personality coherence" refers to the predictable changes in

Accepted Answer

A)  how much "common sense" a personality score makes.
B)  the effects of rank-order stability over time.
C)  the mean level stability of personality traits.
D)  the outcomes of personality factors over time.

Question 13

People who have high levels of self-esteem variability

Accepted Answer

A)  score low on measures of self-esteem level.
B)  score high on measures of self-esteem level.
C)  react positively to objectively defined negative events.
D)  depend on others for their sense of self-worth.

Question 14

Trait consistency tends to reach each peak after age

Accepted Answer

A)  20.
B)  30.
C)  40.
D)  50.

Question 15

According to the researchers involved in the Victoria Longitudinal Study, what is a likely factor in personality change observed in old age?

Accepted Answer

A)  The increased incidence of dementia, which predisposes people to personality change.
B)  Unique life events, such as retirement or death of a loved one.
C)  Reduced cognitive functioning.
D)  Increasingly poor physical health.

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