A. Dispositional
B. Biological
C. Adjustment
D. Social and cultural
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Topic: 01-17 Six Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature
Topic: 01-18 Dispositional Domain
55. Lena collects data on three personality tests from several hundred participants. She then examines the systematic statistical similarities and differences among the traits assessed by each test. Lena is using the logic and methods of the ______ domain of personality.
A. biological
B. intrapsychic
C. social and cultural
D. dispositional
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Topic: 01-17 Six Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature
Topic: 01-18 Dispositional Domain
56. Which domain of knowledge places the most emphasis on the external (to the person) dimensions of personality?
A. dispositional
B. social and cultural
C. biological
D. intrapsychic
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Topic: 01-22 Social and Cultural Domain
57. The fact that almost all humans live in groups suggests the importance of the _____ domain.
A. intrapsychic
B. cognitive-experiential
C. adjustment
D. social and cultural
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Topic: 01-22 Social and Cultural Domain
58. Sidney is interested in differences in the levels of extraversion of British men and Italian men. Sidney will most likely use the methods and theories used by researchers studying personality within the _____ domain.
A. cognitive-experiential
B. dispositional
C. social and cultural
D. intrapsychic
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Topic: 01-22 Social and Cultural Domain
59. Which domain focuses most on the relationships between personality and health behaviours?
A. dispositional
B. adjustment
C. social and cultural
D. cognitive-experiential
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Topic: 01-23 Adjustment Domain
60. The study of personality disorders falls within the _____ domain.
A. biological
B. social and cultural
C. adjustment
D. intrapsychic
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Topic: 01-23 Adjustment Domain
61. Hugo is interested in how borderline personality disorder affects everyday behaviours in a clinical population. He most likely will use the methods and the models of the _____ domain of personality in conducting his research.
A. dispositional
B. biological
C. adjustment
D. intrapsychic
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Topic: 01-23 Adjustment Domain
62. Which of the following is NOT a function of a theory?
A. Guides research
B. Eliminates domains of knowledge
C. Organizes research findings
D. Makes predictions
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Topic: 01-24 The Role of Personality Theory
63. Which of the following is NOT an example of a theory that provides a guide for researchers?
A. A Freudian psychoanalyst predicting stinginess from the ideas about development through a particular stage of psychological development.
B. A biological psychologist predicting a decrease in social behaviour when the frontal lobe of the brain is damaged.
C. A personality psychologist analyzing a large pool of responses to questionnaire items to find the underlying structure of the data.
D. A cognitive psychologist predicting how an individual's self-evaluation will determine theirreaction to a specific stimuli.
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64. Which of the following is a scientific theory?
A. astrology
B. Einstein's ideas on relativity
C. reincarnation