According to your text, what is one important use of personality types?

A) They serve as a way to summarize how someone stands on several traits.
B) They are good indicators of how people are quantitatively different from one another.
C) They are the best way to predict job performance.
D) There is no real use for personality types.

Which Big Five trait contains facets such as intellect, imagination, and adventurousness?

A) openness to experience
B) extraversion
C) neuroticism
D) conscientiousness

To achieve a full understanding, personality researchers must examine psychological topics from more than one approach.

Tarik chain-smokes and goes through periods of binge eating and drinking.According to Freud,he is fixated at the ________ stage.

A) phallic
B) latency
C) anal
D) oral

If a large research study measured the IQs of white middle-class American females and middle-class Japanese males,which of the following is most likely to be found regarding measures of heritability between the two groups

A)  They would be different because heritability is calculated differently for males and females. 
B)  They would be similar because heritability is similar for individuals of the same species. 
C)  They would be different because heritability may vary from one group to another. 
D)  They would be similar because heritability is similar for all individuals of the same social class.

Which criticism is associated with each of Piaget's cognitive stages,Erikson's psychosocial stages,and Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development

A)  People are often functioning at more than one "stage" at the same time, suggesting that stages are not sequential. 
B)  Progress through stages is universal, which suggests that culture and learning have little effect. 
C)  Stages described by the theorists are not valid categories because they are not associated with particular abilities or skills. 
D)  Stage theories focus on individual differences rather than common developmental patterns.

Sue is a great math student.According to multiple intelligences theory,Sue's linguistic intelligence should be ________ her mathematical/logical intelligence.

A) greater than
B) less than
C) equal to
D) unrelated to