Determinants of Personality – Psychology – UGC NET – Solved PYQs

Included Topics: Determinants of personality: Biological and socio-cultural Approaches to the study of personality: Psychoanalytical, Neo-Freudian, Social Learning, Trait and Type, Cognitive , Humanistic, Existential, Transpersonal psychology.

Other theories: Rotter’s Locus of Control, Seligman’s Explanatory styles, Kohlberg’s theory of Moral development.

1. The California F-Scale measures associated with feminine (DEC 2014)

(1) the qualities characteristics
(2) the tendency for seeking sensation
(3) a person’s proneness to being rigid and authoritarian
(4) the qualities of extrovertion

2. Among the following concepts which are related to Alfred Adler’s theory of personality? (DEC 2014)

I. Organ inferiority
II. Psychoticism
III. Archetypes
IV. Masculine protest

Codes:

(1) I and IV
(2) II and III
(3) I and II
(4) IV and III

3. Match the items of List I (Concepts) with List II (Originators) and indicate your answer with the help of the codes given below: (DEC 2014)

Codes:

(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
(3) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
(4) A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

4. According to ethological theory, species-specific behaviour has following characteristics. (DEC 2014)

I. Fixed-action pattern
II. Instinctive
III. Unlearned
IV. Innate

Codes:

(1) I, III and IV
(2) II, III and IV
(3) I, II and III
(4) All of these

5. Which of the following statements are true about the EPQ-R (Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) and the NEO-PI-R (Revised NEO Personality Inventory)? (DEC 2014)

I. Both the tests measure Openness to Experience.
II. The Psychoticism scale of the EPQ-R correlates negatively with the Agreeableness and the Conscientiousness scales of the NEO-PI-R.
III. EPQ-R has a Lie scale; NEO-PI-R does not have a Lie scale.
IV. Extraversion and Neuroticism scales of the EPQ-R positively correlate with the corresponding NEO-PI-R scales.

Codes:

(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) II, III and IV

6. Match the items List I (Theories) with List II (Theorists) and mark your answer with the help of codes given below: (DEC 2014)

Codes:

(1) A-I, B-II, C-IV, D-III
(2) A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
(3) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
(4) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

7. Among the following descriptions of major defense mechanisms, which one describes ‘projection’? (DEC 2014)

(1) Assigning logical or socially desirable motives to that we do
(2) Directing a motive that cannot be gratified in one form into another channel
(3) Denying that an unpleasant reality exists
(4) Assigning our own undesirable qualities to others

8. Read each of the following two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below: (DEC 2014)

Assertion (A): Freud’s theory holds that many behaviours are caused by unconscious motivation. Personality is determined by biological drives of sex and aggression.

Reason (R): Personality differences results from variations in learning experiences.

Codes:

(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true

9. According to Albert Bandura, any behaviour produces two sets of consequences. They are (DEC 2014)

I. Inhibition
II. Self-evaluation
III. External outcomes
IV. Habit

Codes:

(1) I and II
(2) III and IV
(3) II and III
(4) I and IV

10. Read each of the following two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below: (DEC 2014)

Assertion (A): People with external locus of control are prone to learned helplessness.

Reason (R): People with internal locus of control believe that intelligence is changeable and they work at developing new strategies.

Codes:

(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true

11. Match the items of List I (Concepts) with List II (Originators) and mark your answer with the help of codes given below: (DEC 2014)

Codes:

(1) A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
(2) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(3) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
(4) A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

12. Which is the one that is not a ‘Big Five’ factor of personality? (DEC 2014)

(1) Extraversion
(2) Psychoticism
(3) Conscientiousness
(4) Agreeableness

13. Match List I and List II and select the correct answer by choosing from codes given below: (JUNE 2015)

Codes:

(1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(2) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
(3) A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III
(4) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

14. Read each of the following two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below: (JUNE 2015)

Assertion (A): Surface traits are simply a collection of trait elements which obviously go together in many different individuals and circumstances. Intercorrelated trait elements or variables cluster together to form a surface trait.

Reason (R): Source traits are underlying factors that control the variation in surface clusters.

Codes:

(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

15. Read each of the following two statements, Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and indicate your answer using the codes given below: (JUNE 2015)

Assertion (A): According to Maslow, after the gratification of basic needs, we move in positive direction, but it is not automatic.

Reason (R): We often fear our best side, our talents, our finest impulses, our creativeness.

Codes:

(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true