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Self, Identity, and Personality Development MCQ

Mischel focuses particularly on __________ variables.

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Correct Answer: Cognitive.

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Which theorist is partly responsible for popularizing the term “midlife crisis”?

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Correct Answer: Daniel Levinson

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What is typical of an adolescent’s self-conception?

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Correct Answer: They describe themselves in multiple ways that are often contradictory.

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______ is associated with worse average cognitive functioning and a steeper rate of decline?

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Correct Answer: Higher levels of neuroticism

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Which culture views a required attribute of adulthood as the ability to withstand pressure?

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Correct Answer: Israeli young adults

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Grandpa Joe loves to sit and tell stories about his childhood and early adulthood on the farm he grew up in. At most family get-togethers, Grandpa Joe can be found sitting with at least six or seven grandchildren listening to exciting tales of horse riding and snake catching. What is Grandpa Joe is engaging in?

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Correct Answer: Reminiscence

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The degree to which individuals have explored possible selves and whether they have committed to specific beliefs and goals is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Identity status

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Scott is a middle-aged adult who is described as responsible, disciplined, task oriented, and planful. He has planned out his life and has worked hard to achieve the goals he has set for himself. Everyone at his workplace knows they can count on him when needed. Which of the Big 5 personality traits is Scott high in?

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Correct Answer: Conscientiousness

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What do middle-aged adults tend to incorporate into their self-descriptions?

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Correct Answer: Autobiographical information

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Self-esteem is based on ______.

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Correct Answer: Evaluation

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At which age do children’s self-concept shift to trait-like psychological constructs such as “popular, smart, or good looking”?

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Correct Answer: Around age 7

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Which of the Big 5 personality traits tends to increase with age, especially into older adulthood?

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Correct Answer: Agreeableness

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Reflecting on past experiences and contemplating the meaning of those experiences and their role in shaping one’s life is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Life review

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Children in which ethnicity tend to score lower in self-esteem?

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Correct Answer: Chinese and Japanese

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Which of the following is a description most likely used by a 4-year-old?

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Correct Answer: “I have blue eyes and blonde hair. I have a cat. I have a princess bed.”

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Why is establishing an intimate relationship that is mutual and satisfying a challenge for emerging and young adults?

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Correct Answer: Emerging and young adults continue to struggle with identity issues making relationship development difficult.

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___ clusters of personality traits that reflect an inborn predisposition that is stable throughout is big personality traits

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Correct Answer: Five

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A period of self-doubt and stress attributed to entering midlife once thought to contribute to a major reorganization of personality in midlife.

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Correct Answer: True

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In Levinson’s theory, a person’s overall organization of his or her life, particularly dreams, goals, and relationships with significant others as well as institutions, such as marriage, family, and vocation is life structure

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Correct Answer: True

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An extended transition to adulthood that takes place from ages ____ in which a young person is no longer an adolescent yet has not assumed the roles that comprise adulthood is emerging adulthood

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Correct Answer: 18-25

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A sense of membership to an ethnic group and viewing the attitudes and practices associated with that group as an enduring part of the self is called ethnic identity

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Correct Answer: True

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The identity state in which an individual has not undergone exploration but has committed to values and goals chosen by an authority figure is identity foreclosed

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Correct Answer: True

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The identity state in which an individual has not undergone exploration nor committed to self-chosen values and goals is called

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Correct Answer: Identity diffusion

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The degree to which individuals have explored possible selves and whether they have committed to specific beliefs and goals is called

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Correct Answer: Identity status

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In Erikson’s theory, a period in which the individual is free to explore identity possibilities before committing to an identity is psychosocial moratorium

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Correct Answer: True

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The identity state in which after undergoing a period of exploration a person commits to self-chosen values and goals is identity achievement

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Correct Answer: True

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A coherent organized sense of self that includes values, attitudes, and goals to which one is committed is called

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Correct Answer: Identity

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The cultural belief that family members should support one another is called

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Correct Answer: Familism

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Biculturalism is the practice of adopting values and practices from ___ cultures.

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Correct Answer: Two

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Global self esteem is an overall evaluation of self-worth.

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Correct Answer: True

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The tendency to compare and judge one’s abilities, achievements, and behaviors in relation to others is social comparison

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Correct Answer: True

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____ is the general emotional evaluation of one’s own worth.

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Correct Answer: Self esteem

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____ review is the reflection on past experiences and one’s life, permitting greater self-understanding and the assignment of meaning to their lives.

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Correct Answer: Life

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The process of telling stories from one’s past, to oneself or others is called

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Correct Answer: Reminiscence

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Who an individual is, his or her personal characteristics. The match between the real self and aspirational, ideal self influences well-being is called

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Correct Answer: Real self

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In which sense of self that is characterized by traits that one values?

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Correct Answer: Ideal self

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Future-oriented representations of self-concept into the future; who an individual might become, both hoped for and feared, that guides and motivates choices and behaviors is known as

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Correct Answer: Possible self

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Future-oriented representations of self-concept into the future; who an individual might become, both hoped for and feared, that guides and motivates choices and behaviors is known as

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Correct Answer: Possible self

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In which classification of the self based on broad ways in which people differ, such as sex, age, and physical characteristics?

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Correct Answer: Categorical self

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In which classification of the self based on broad ways in which people differ, such as sex, age, and physical characteristics?

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Correct Answer: Categorical self

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The ability to identify the self, typically measured as mirror recognition is called

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Correct Answer: Self recognition

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The set of attributes, abilities, and characteristics that a person uses to describe and define him-or herself is called

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Correct Answer: Self concept

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