McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Science in Counselling Psychology (BSc Counselling Psychology) .
| 1. |
................ refers to the individual differences as well as an individual’s pattern of responding to the environment. |
| A. | trait |
| B. | temperament |
| C. | heritability |
| D. | personality |
| Answer» B. temperament | |
| 2. |
Sociability constitute which one of the five factor dimension |
| A. | psychoticism |
| B. | extraversion |
| C. | agreeableness |
| D. | conscientiousness |
| Answer» C. agreeableness | |
| 3. |
The sub facets of extraversion include the following except................ |
| A. | warmth |
| B. | assertiveness |
| C. | positive emotions |
| D. | trust |
| Answer» D. trust | |
| 4. |
Spirituality is a good example for................ |
| A. | transcendence |
| B. | bravery |
| C. | curiosity |
| D. | humanity |
| Answer» A. transcendence | |
| 5. |
When faced with a decision in an uncertain situation, ................ person tries to look at the problem from all angles and never jump to conclusions. |
| A. | courageous |
| B. | prosocial |
| C. | kind |
| D. | open-minded |
| Answer» D. open-minded | |
| 6. |
John Bowlby was closely related to .............. |
| A. | psychological well-being |
| B. | achievement motivation |
| C. | big five factors |
| D. | attachment theory |
| Answer» D. attachment theory | |
| 7. |
Which one of the following belongs to the 24 character strengths of VIA classification system |
| A. | optimism |
| B. | positive illusion |
| C. | hope |
| D. | flow |
| Answer» C. hope | |
| 8. |
.......... directs organisms toward situations and experiences that potentially may yield pleasure and reward |
| A. | withdrawal oriented bis |
| B. | withdrawal oriented bfs |
| C. | approach oriented bis |
| D. | approach oriented bfs |
| Answer» D. approach oriented bfs | |
| 9. |
‘Architecture of sustainable happiness’ was proposed by .......... |
| A. | seligman and colleagues |
| B. | lyubomirsky and colleagues |
| C. | diener et al |
| D. | ulrich et al |
| Answer» B. lyubomirsky and colleagues | |
| 10. |
In the ABC analysis of the attributional retraining program ‘A’ stands for .......... |
| A. | adversity |
| B. | attribution |
| C. | achievement |
| D. | ability |
| Answer» A. adversity | |
| 11. |
When two partners take a positive view of their relationship that their partners are better than others, their love is stronger than other’s love, and that they have more control over the outcome of their relationship than others and so are less likely to separate; they are said to show .......... |
| A. | positive illusion |
| B. | illusion collusion |
| C. | optimism |
| D. | marital satisfaction |
| Answer» B. illusion collusion | |
| 12. |
16PF was proposed by .......... |
| A. | eysenck |
| B. | erikson |
| C. | freud |
| D. | cattell |
| Answer» D. cattell | |
| 13. |
Each one of the big five factors include .......... sub facets. |
| A. | eight |
| B. | six |
| C. | five |
| D. | four |
| Answer» B. six | |
| 14. |
The virtue that affirms the ‘look before you leap’ dictum of everyday wisdom. |
| A. | curiosity |
| B. | courage |
| C. | wisdom |
| D. | temperance |
| Answer» D. temperance | |
| 15. |
........... refers to receptivity to novel ideas, fantasies, feelings and values. |
| A. | conscientiousness |
| B. | openness to experience |
| C. | novelty seeking |
| D. | creativity |
| Answer» B. openness to experience | |
| 16. |
Greater persistence will occurs after the withdrawal of ........... |
| A. | continuous reinforcement |
| B. | intermittent reinforcement |
| C. | positive punishment |
| D. | negative punishment |
| Answer» B. intermittent reinforcement | |
| 17. |
.......... involves accurate self-perception and acceptance of one’s strengths and accomplishments and imperfections and failures, coupled with a greater focus on the value of all people and things than on the self. |
| A. | humanity |
| B. | humility |
| C. | optimism |
| D. | pessimism |
| Answer» B. humility | |
| 18. |
Negative affect is a component of the .......... |
| A. | withdrawal oriented bis |
| B. | approach oriented bis |
| C. | withdrawal oriented bfs |
| D. | approach oriented bfs |
| Answer» A. withdrawal oriented bis | |
| 19. |
To Diener subjective well-being = positive affect + .......... |
| A. | psychological well-being |
| B. | negative affect |
| C. | happiness |
| D. | general life satisfaction |
| Answer» D. general life satisfaction | |
| 20. |
One’s tendency to think that he is more competent and better liked than others and describe himself primarily in positive terms is an example for .......... |
| A. | optimism |
| B. | hope |
| C. | positive illusion |
| D. | positive affectivity |
| Answer» C. positive illusion | |
| 21. |
Select among the following the one that has not a proponent of trait theory of personality. |
| A. | raymond cattell |
| B. | alfred adler |
| C. | hans eysenck |
| D. | gordon allport |
| Answer» B. alfred adler | |
| 22. |
The VIA was coordinated by ........... |
| A. | smith & worthington |
| B. | schmutte & ryff |
| C. | peterson & seligman |
| D. | costa & mccrae |
| Answer» C. peterson & seligman | |
| 23. |
A person with a strong love of learning is ........... motivated to master new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge. |
| A. | extrinsically |
| B. | intrinsically |
| C. | directly |
| D. | indirectly |
| Answer» B. intrinsically | |
| 24. |
A person who has the strength of appreciation in response to skill experiences ........... |
| A. | admiration |
| B. | moral elevation |
| C. | joy |
| D. | flow |
| Answer» A. admiration | |
| 25. |
............. is referred as the goal directed thinking in which a person has the perceived capacity to find routes to directed goals. |
| A. | motivation |
| B. | hope |
| C. | need |
| D. | optimism |
| Answer» B. hope | |
| 26. |
The dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions are called as ........... |
| A. | personality |
| B. | emotional stability |
| C. | behaviour |
| D. | trait |
| Answer» D. trait | |
| 27. |
The VIA classification system of six virtues include all the following except .......... |
| A. | curiosity |
| B. | wisdom |
| C. | justice |
| D. | temperance |
| Answer» A. curiosity | |
| 28. |
.......... has been conceptualized as an expert knowledge system associated with an advanced stage of cognitive and personality development. |
| A. | wisdom |
| B. | transcendence |
| C. | curiosity |
| D. | intelligence |
| Answer» A. wisdom | |
| 29. |
The aesthetics facet belongs to which one of the big five personality trait? |
| A. | conscientiousness |
| B. | neuroticism |
| C. | extraversion |
| D. | openness to experience |
| Answer» D. openness to experience | |
| 30. |
A global expectation that the future will bring a bounty of good things and scarcity of bad things is .......... |
| A. | hope |
| B. | dispositional optimism |
| C. | learned optimism |
| D. | positive illusion |
| Answer» B. dispositional optimism | |
| 31. |
Which one of the following is not a dimension of big five personality? |
| A. | psychoticism |
| B. | neuroticism |
| C. | emotional stability |
| D. | agreeableness |
| Answer» A. psychoticism | |
| 32. |
The virtue which represents our capacity for sympathy, empathy, compassion and love in our relationship with others. |
| A. | temperance |
| B. | transcendence |
| C. | humanity |
| D. | justice |
| Answer» C. humanity | |
| 33. |
.......... is thankfulness to a deity or to the universe for specific things or for the experience of existence. |
| A. | personal gratitude |
| B. | transpersonal gratitude |
| C. | dispositional gratitude |
| D. | spirituality |
| Answer» B. transpersonal gratitude | |
| 34. |
Seligman and Peterson have conceptualized optimism as ............ |
| A. | a personality trait |
| B. | positive illusion |
| C. | an explanatory style |
| D. | a character strength |
| Answer» C. an explanatory style | |
| 35. |
The opposite end of the agreeableness continuum is ............ |
| A. | antagonism |
| B. | deliberateness |
| C. | sociability |
| D. | emotional unstability |
| Answer» A. antagonism | |
| 36. |
Each virtue is defined by a set of .......... strengths that represent the ingredients, expressions and potential means of developing the virtue. |
| A. | behavioural |
| B. | character |
| C. | personality |
| D. | emotional |
| Answer» B. character | |
| 37. |
............. is the capacity to accurately recognize the psychological states of self and others, and manage our own psychological states and social situations effectively. |
| A. | wisdom |
| B. | iq |
| C. | social intelligence |
| D. | self-awareness |
| Answer» C. social intelligence | |
| 38. |
The ability to understand feelings in the self and others, and to use these feelings as informational guides for thinking and action |
| A. | empathy |
| B. | sympathy |
| C. | emotional intelligence |
| D. | self-awareness |
| Answer» C. emotional intelligence | |
| 39. |
............ involves not acknowledging the existence or meaning of threatening or stressful events in the external world. |
| A. | repression |
| B. | projection |
| C. | displacement |
| D. | denial |
| Answer» D. denial | |
| 40. |
............ refers to people’s level of discipline, self-control and organization |
| A. | competence |
| B. | agreeableness |
| C. | conscientiousness |
| D. | self-efficacy |
| Answer» C. conscientiousness | |
| 41. |
The virtue that provide the strength to control excesses and restrain impulses which may harm the self and others. |
| A. | temperance |
| B. | transcendence |
| C. | justice |
| D. | wisdom |
| Answer» A. temperance | |
| 42. |
An individual’s capacity to produce novel and useful ideas. |
| A. | intelligence |
| B. | wisdom |
| C. | creativity |
| D. | curiosity |
| Answer» C. creativity | |
| 43. |
Teamwork belongs to the virtue of .............. |
| A. | justice |
| B. | humanity |
| C. | temperance |
| D. | leadership |
| Answer» A. justice | |
| 44. |
.............. involves registering, attending to, and deciphering emotional messages as they are expressed in facial expressions, voice tone, or cultural artefacts. |
| A. | emotional competence |
| B. | emotional perception |
| C. | emotional understanding |
| D. | emotional facilitation |
| Answer» B. emotional perception | |
| 45. |
‘People who experience flow in daily life tend to very happy’. This proposal constitute which type of happiness theory? |
| A. | process/activity theories |
| B. | need/goal satisfaction theories |
| C. | genetic theories of happiness |
| D. | personality predisposition theories |
| Answer» A. process/activity theories | |
| 46. |
An organized set of beliefs that allows to anticipate situations in which negative information is likely to be received about the self and then to develop strategies for dealing with these is .................... |
| A. | positive illusion |
| B. | negative illusion |
| C. | positive self-schema |
| D. | negative self-schema |
| Answer» D. negative self-schema | |
| 47. |
The book ‘Denial of death’ was written by |
| A. | earnest becker |
| B. | freud |
| C. | aron beck |
| D. | seligman |
| Answer» A. earnest becker | |
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