Big Five Personality Traits Quiz
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Which personality trait is associated with being self-disciplined and orderly?

  • Altruistic
  • Fantasy Prone
  • Conscientiousness (correct)
  • Agreeableness

Which trait is most closely related to being compliant and modest?

  • Competent
  • Dutiful
  • Modest (correct)
  • Achievement oriented

Which personality trait signifies being open to new and different ideas?

  • Trustworthy
  • Tender Minded
  • Open to diverse behaviors
  • Open to feelings (correct)

Which trait is linked to being trusting and straightforward?

<p>Trustworthy (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which trait involves being achievement-oriented and competent?

<p>Achievement oriented (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which personality trait includes being open to diverse behaviors and various values and beliefs?

<p>Open to diverse behaviors (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the acronym used to remember the five major traits in the Five-Factor Model of Personality?

<p>OCEAN (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which approach showed that many personality descriptors found in the dictionary overlap?

<p>Lexical approach (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did statistical methods, specifically factor analysis, help determine in terms of personality dimensions?

<p>Underlying dimensions in personality words (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which term summarizes the personality dimension of being sociable, friendly, and gregarious in the Five-Factor Model?

<p>Extravert (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who were some of the researchers involved in developing the Big Five or Five-Factor Model?

<p>McCrae &amp; Costa (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the Big Five Model, what does the 'O' stand for in the acronym OCEAN?

<p>Openness (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do personality psychologists try to describe and understand?

<p>The differences in people's unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which term describes one of the dimensions on which people differ?

<p>Conscientiousness (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the context of personality psychology, what does the term 'trait' refer to?

<p>Basic dimensions on which people differ (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of Gordon Allport and other 'personologists'?

<p>Understanding the differences between individuals through personality traits (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which term best describes the concept of 'extraversion' as mentioned in the text?

<p>Being talkative and outgoing (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to trait psychologists, how do individuals fall on each dimension of personality traits?

<p>They could be low, medium, or high on any specific trait (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which factor is emphasized by personality researchers when summarizing one's personality?

<p>The significance of global traits (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why are facets considered useful in the study of personality?

<p>To provide more specific details (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the context of extraversion, what could a person who loves parties but hates public speaking be high in?

<p>Gregariousness and warmth (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why might facet scores be beneficial in predicting job performance?

<p>To allow for better job matching (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is suggested about the correlation between different facets within a global trait?

<p>They tend to go together (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do facet scores contribute to understanding a person according to the text?

<p>They add important knowledge (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a key feature of personality traits according to the text?

<p>They are continuous distributions (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

When personality psychologists discuss introverts and extraverts, what are they actually referring to?

<p>People who score low or high on a continuum (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the challenge associated with the trait approach in personality psychology?

<p>Generating too many new traits (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do most people score on traits like extraversion according to personality psychologists?

<p>Somewhere in the middle (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was a common issue faced by scientists studying personality traits?

<p>Difficulty reducing the number of traits systematically (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why did scientists aim to reduce the number of traits in personality psychology research?

<p>To simplify research findings (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the context of personality traits, what does the term 'extraverts' typically refer to?

<p>'Outgoing' individuals (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Friendliness' and 'sociability' were used by psychologists as examples of:

<p>'Highly related' concepts (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Individual differences in 'friendliness'' and 'sociability'' can be challenging in psychology due to:

<p>'Lack of consensus' in trait definitions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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