Assignment: IAUSS Psychological Personality
Multiple Choice Problems
I. When people believe that they have little control over what happens to them and all outcomes are due to chance, it is called:
i. Loss of control
ii. Internal locus of control
iii. External locus of control
iv. Leaned helplessness
II. Which of the following characteristics pairs might NOT differentiate an optimistic explanatory style from a pessimistic explanatory style?
i. Interval vs. external
ii. Stable vs. unstable
iii. Emotional vs. rational
iv. Global vs. specific
III. Which of the following statements about the Attribution Style Questionnaire (ASQ) is NOT true?
i. It contains 12 hypothetical situations
ii. It has three dimensions
iii. Participants provide one major cause of each situation and rate each cause on a 1-7 scale
iv. Higher scores on the test indicate a more optimistic explanatory style
IV. How many filler items does the Life Orientation Test Revised version (LOT-R) have?
i. 3
ii. 4
iii. 8
iv. 10
V. Which of the following is NOT a way to foster the autonomy need (one of the three basic psychological needs)?
i. Recognize individual's unique perspective
ii. Use minimal pressure
iii. Help the individual live with the consequences of the choices at a level he or she can cope with
iv. Provide tasks that are neither too hard nor too easy
VI. What does personality psychologists refer to the connection between choice and behavior as?
i. Locus of causality
ii. Locus of control
iii. Locus of motivation
iv. Locus of determination
VII. What two parts consist of a self-efficacy belief?
i. Cause expectation and outcome expectation
ii. Motivation expectation and behavior expectation
iii. Outcome expectation and efficacy expectation
iv. Competency expectation and motivation expectation
VIII. Which of the following is NOT extrinsic motivation?
i. Inferential regulation
ii. Introjected regulation
iii. Identified regulation
iv. Integrated regulation
Essay Problems
I. What are internal and external locus of control? It is observed that people in individualistic cultures (e.g., Western countries) show different tendency in locus of control than people in collectivistic cultures (e.g., East Asian countries). Describe how the differences are presented.
II. Describe the Life Orientation Test Revised version (LOT-R) of dispositional optimism. Why do people high in dispositional optimism cope better with major life events?
III. What are the three fundamental psychological needs? How do we satisfy these needs?
IV. What does it mean to be self-regulated? What are the different kinds of regulation? What are the different types of motivation?
V. What are the three causality orientations? How do people with each of these orientations approach new situations?
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