
Prentice Hall Chapter 2 Test
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
- Your _____ consists of the behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that make you an individual.
a. |
self-esteem |
b. |
personality |
c. |
self-actualization |
d. |
identity |
- Evaluate which of the following people is the most conscientious.
a. |
Victoria is frequently late to basketball practice. |
b. |
David never studies and often sleeps in class. |
c. |
Erica always keeps her room clean and orderly. |
d. |
Miguel rarely finishes his homework on time. |
- Identify the two main factors that determine how your personality develops.
a. |
culture and tradition |
b. |
family and friends |
c. |
appearance and gender |
d. |
heredity and environment |
- Identify the factor that does NOT influence personality.
a. |
heredity |
b. |
friends |
c. |
culture |
d. |
eye color |
- Which stage of personality development is represented by an 18-year-old girl considering her college and career options?
a. |
take initiative |
b. |
develop skills |
c. |
create and nurture |
d. |
search for identity |
- Arrange these stages of personality development in the correct order, from earliest to latest.
a. |
search for identity, take initiative, develop trust, look back with acceptance |
b. |
look back with acceptance, develop trust, take initiative, search for identity |
c. |
develop trust, take initiative, search for identity, look back with acceptance |
d. |
search for identity, take initiative, look back with acceptance, develop trust |
- Which of the following behaviors is most typical of people with high self-esteem?
a. |
bouncing back quickly from setbacks |
b. |
having little respect for themselves |
c. |
worrying too much about what others think of them |
d. |
believing success is a matter of luck rather than hard work |
- On average, what happens to self-esteem between childhood and adolescence?
a. |
It increases. |
b. |
It decreases. |
c. |
It stays the same. |
d. |
It goes through a series of sharp increases and decreases. |
- Choose a helpful method for improving your self esteem.
a. |
Focus heavily on your appearance. |
b. |
Think only about your own concerns. |
c. |
Try to learn from your mistakes. |
d. |
Accept no compliments or flattery. |
- Define self-actualization.
a. |
the trait that describes how responsible and self-disciplined you are |
b. |
how much you respect yourself and like yourself |
c. |
the behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that make you an individual |
d. |
the process by which people achieve their full potential |
- Classify shelter from the elements into the proper level on the hierarchy of needs.
a. |
physical needs |
b. |
safety |
c. |
belonging |
d. |
esteem |
- Arrange the basic human needs in order according to Maslow’s hierarchy, starting at the bottom and ending at the top.
a. |
physical needs, safety, belonging, esteem |
b. |
safety, physical needs, esteem, belonging |
c. |
esteem, belonging, physical needs, safety |
d. |
esteem, physical needs, belonging, safety |
- Identify the emotion that is NOT a primary emotion.
a. |
happiness |
b. |
sadness |
c. |
anger |
d. |
love |
- Distinguish which of the following emotions are learned emotions.
a. |
love and guilt |
b. |
happiness and anger |
c. |
sadness and grief |
d. |
fear and sorrow |
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
- Agreeableness is a trait that describes how responsible and self-disciplined you are.
- Self-esteem refers to how much other people like and respect you.
- An emotion is a reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior.
- One of the steps of recognizing your emotions is to determine what triggered the emotion.
Short Answer
- Compare and contrast how heredity and environment influence personality traits.
- Use specific examples to demonstrate how a teenager may search for identity.
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