PSY/250 Unit 5 Quiz — Traits and the Five-Factor Model

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Which Big Five factor most consistently predicts job performance across occupations, academic achievement, and even longevity?

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A. Conscientiousness

B. Openness to Experience

C. Extraversion

D. Agreeableness

Eysenck's biological account of extraversion proposed that:

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A. Introverts are chronically more cortically aroused and therefore avoid additional stimulation

B. Extraverts are chronically more cortically aroused and therefore seek solitude

C. Extraversion is entirely learned through reinforcement in childhood

D. Extraversion derives from an archetype in the collective unconscious

The lexical hypothesis, foundational to the trait approach, holds that:

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A. Individual differences important enough to matter become encoded in everyday language

B. Personality can only be measured through projective tests

C. Traits are caused by the structure of the language a person speaks

D. Only traits with a known biological basis should be included in a taxonomy

A critic argues: 'Saying Marcus misses deadlines because he is low in Conscientiousness explains nothing — we only know he is low in Conscientiousness because he misses deadlines.' This is the objection that trait theory is:

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A. Descriptive rather than explanatory, and risks circularity when treated as a cause

B. Unable to be measured reliably across raters

C. Insufficiently grounded in factor analysis

D. Unfalsifiable in the same way as psychoanalytic theory

The maturity principle in personality development refers to the finding that, from adolescence into middle adulthood, people on average:

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A. Increase in Conscientiousness and Agreeableness while decreasing in Neuroticism

B. Increase in Neuroticism while decreasing in Conscientiousness

C. Show no measurable mean-level change in any factor

D. Increase in Openness while all other factors remain fixed

Which of the following are the five factors of the Five-Factor Model? (Select all that apply.)

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A. Openness to Experience

B. Conscientiousness

C. Extraversion

D. Agreeableness

E. Neuroticism

The HEXACO model adds a sixth factor, Honesty–Humility, to the Big Five. Explain what this factor captures and why its advocates argue the Big Five is incomplete without it.

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