15: Easy/Direct Recall
1. Who is considered the father of psychoanalysis?
a) Carl Jung
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Alfred Adler
d) Erik Erikson
Ans: b) Sigmund Freud
2. According to Freud, which part of the personality operates on the pleasure principle?
a) Ego
b) Superego
c) Id
d) Reality principle
Ans: c) Id
3. Carl Jung’s concept of the “collective unconscious” includes:
a) Hidden childhood memories
b) Shared inherited experiences
c) Suppressed thoughts
d) Learned cultural values
Ans: b) Shared inherited experiences
4. The “Big Five” personality traits are also known as:
a) HEXACO model
b) OCEAN model
c) MBTI
d) Trait hierarchy
Ans: b) OCEAN model
5. Which trait in the Big Five refers to being imaginative and curious?
a) Conscientiousness
b) Openness
c) Extraversion
d) Agreeableness
Ans: b) Openness
6. Defense mechanism where someone attributes their own feelings to others:
a) Projection
b) Repression
c) Denial
d) Sublimation
Ans: a) Projection
7. Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized mainly by:
a) Excessive orderliness
b) Instability in relationships and self-image
c) Lack of empathy
d) Social withdrawal
Ans: b) Instability in relationships and self-image
8. Antisocial Personality Disorder is most strongly associated with:
a) Guilt and anxiety
b) Lack of remorse and violation of rights
c) Excessive shyness
d) Need for admiration
Ans: b) Lack of remorse and violation of rights
9. Which personality theory focuses on unconditional positive regard?
a) Freud’s psychoanalysis
b) Jung’s archetypes
c) Roger’s humanistic theory
d) Skinner’s behaviorism
Ans: c) Roger’s humanistic theory
10. Who developed the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF)?
a) Cattell
b) Eysenck
c) Allport
d) Maslow
Ans: a) Cattell
11. Paranoid Personality Disorder is classified under which cluster in DSM-5?
a) Cluster A
b) Cluster B
c) Cluster C
d) Cluster D
Ans: a) Cluster A
12. Narcissistic Personality Disorder primarily involves:
a) Desire for approval
b) Fear of abandonment
c) Grandiosity and lack of empathy
d) Suspicion of others
Ans: c) Grandiosity and lack of empathy
13. Who proposed the concept of “inferiority complex”?
a) Freud
b) Jung
c) Adler
d) Erikson
Ans: c) Adler
14. Which test is a projective measure of personality?
a) MMPI
b) TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)
c) 16PF
d) NEO-PI-R
Ans: b) TAT
15. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder differs from OCD in being:
a) An anxiety disorder
b) Focused on personality traits of perfectionism
c) Caused by hallucinations
d) Treated only with medication
Ans: b) Focused on personality traits of perfectionism
16–35: Medium / Application-based
16. Which of the following is NOT part of Freud’s psychosexual stages?
a) Oral
b) Latency
c) Integrity
d) Phallic
Ans: c) Integrity
17. Eysenck’s two main personality dimensions were:
a) Extraversion–Introversion & Neuroticism–Stability
b) Openness–Closedness & Agreeableness–Hostility
c) Conscientiousness & Impulsivity
d) Optimism & Pessimism
Ans: a) Extraversion–Introversion & Neuroticism–Stability
18. In cognitive-behavioral models, personality disorders are thought to result from:
a) Fixations in psychosexual stages
b) Genetic predispositions only
c) Maladaptive core beliefs
d) Archetypes
Ans: c) Maladaptive core beliefs
19. Which Big Five trait is most strongly linked to better physical health?
a) Conscientiousness
b) Neuroticism
c) Extraversion
d) Openness
Ans: a) Conscientiousness
20. A person who is suspicious of others, reads hidden meanings into events, and holds grudges
may have:
a) Histrionic PD
b) Paranoid PD
c) Dependent PD
d) Avoidant PD
Ans: b) Paranoid PD
21. Freud considered slips of the tongue (Freudian slips) as evidence of:
a) Archetypes
b) Unconscious processes
c) Self-actualization
d) Learned habits
Ans: b) Unconscious processes
22. Which therapy is most effective for Borderline Personality Disorder?
a) Psychoanalysis
b) Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
c) Electroconvulsive Therapy
d) Medication only
Ans: b) DBT
23. Which PD is characterized by excessive need to be taken care of and fear of separation?
a) Avoidant PD
b) Dependent PD
c) Narcissistic PD
d) Schizotypal PD
Ans: b) Dependent PD
24. Which psychologist emphasized cardinal, central, and secondary traits?
a) Allport
b) Cattell
c) Eysenck
d) Rogers
Ans: a) Allport
25. People with high neuroticism tend to:
a) Stay calm under stress
b) Experience more anxiety and mood swings
c) Be more imaginative
d) Show perfectionism only
Ans: b) Experience more anxiety and mood swings
26. The MMPI is primarily used to:
a) Measure unconscious drives
b) Diagnose personality and psychological disorders
c) Assess creative ability
d) Identify learning styles
Ans: b) Diagnose personality and psychological disorders
27. Which disorder involves attention-seeking, excessive emotionality, and dramatization?
a) Histrionic PD
b) Antisocial PD
c) Schizoid PD
d) Paranoid PD
Ans: a) Histrionic PD
28. The self-concept and conditions of worth are central to:
a) Freud’s theory
b) Adler’s theory
c) Carl Rogers’ humanistic theory
d) Skinner’s operant conditioning
Ans: c) Carl Rogers’ humanistic theory
29. Avoidant Personality Disorder is characterized by:
a) Lack of empathy
b) Excessive dependence
c) Social inhibition and fear of rejection
d) Attention-seeking behavior
Ans: c) Social inhibition and fear of rejection
30. “Basic hostility” and “basic anxiety” were central ideas of:
a) Jung
b) Karen Horney
c) Adler
d) Erikson
Ans: b) Karen Horney
31. Which PD often overlaps with criminal behavior?
a) Dependent
b) Antisocial
c) Schizoid
d) Avoidant
Ans: b) Antisocial
32. According to Maslow, self-actualized individuals:
a) Depend on others’ approval
b) Are focused only on survival needs
c) Fulfill their highest potential
d) Always avoid risks
Ans: c) Fulfill their highest potential
33. A person who shows odd beliefs, magical thinking, and social anxiety without close
relationships likely has:
a) Schizotypal PD
b) Schizoid PD
c) Paranoid PD
d) Histrionic PD
Ans: a) Schizotypal PD
34. Which defense mechanism involves redirecting unacceptable impulses into socially
acceptable activities?
a) Sublimation
b) Repression
c) Denial
d) Regression
Ans: a) Sublimation
35. Which neurotransmitter dysfunction is linked with Borderline and Antisocial PDs?
a) Dopamine
b) Serotonin
c) Acetylcholine
d) GABA
Ans: b) Serotonin
36–50: Difficult / Tricky
36. According to Freud, unresolved conflicts during the phallic stage may result in:
a) Oedipus/Electra complex
b) Inferiority complex
c) Identity confusion
d) Oral fixation
Ans: a) Oedipus/Electra complex
37. Which personality assessment uses ambiguous inkblots to reveal unconscious dynamics?
a) TAT
b) Rorschach test
c) MMPI
d) NEO-PI-R
Ans: b) Rorschach test
38. The trait theory criticized for being “too descriptive and not explanatory” is:
a) Psychoanalytic theory
b) Humanistic theory
c) Trait theory
d) Social-cognitive theory
Ans: c) Trait theory
39. Which cluster of PDs is described as “dramatic, emotional, or erratic”?
a) Cluster A
b) Cluster B
c) Cluster C
d) Cluster D
Ans: b) Cluster B
40. Freud’s concept of “Thanatos” refers to:
a) Life instinct
b) Death instinct/aggression drive
c) Superego
d) Sexual energy
Ans: b) Death instinct
41. Which learning principle is most involved in the development of phobias and certain
avoidant behaviors?
a) Classical conditioning
b) Operant conditioning
c) Observational learning
d) Insight learning
Ans: a) Classical conditioning
42. Which theorist combined both trait and biological approaches to personality?
a) Freud
b) Rogers
c) Eysenck
d) Skinner
Ans: c) Eysenck
43. A person who is overly perfectionistic, controlling, and rigid may have:
a) OCD (anxiety disorder)
b) Obsessive-Compulsive PD
c) Schizotypal PD
d) Histrionic PD
Ans: b) OCPD
44. The difference between schizoid and avoidant PD is mainly:
a) Schizoid avoids due to disinterest, avoidant due to fear of rejection
b) Schizoid is dramatic, avoidant is cold
c) Schizoid needs approval, avoidant does not
d) No difference, they are the same
Ans: a) Schizoid = disinterest, Avoidant = fear of rejection
45. Which psychologist emphasized locus of control in personality?
a) Julian Rotter
b) Albert Bandura
c) Carl Rogers
d) Maslow
Ans: a) Rotter
46. Albert Bandura’s concept of reciprocal determinism highlights the interaction between:
a) Id, ego, and superego
b) Personality traits only
c) Behavior, environment, and personal factors
d) Cognitive schemas only
Ans: c) Behavior, environment, and personal factors
47. Which PD is sometimes described as “psychopathy” in everyday terms?
a) Borderline PD
b) Narcissistic PD
c) Antisocial PD
d) Histrionic PD
Ans: c) Antisocial PD
48. Who emphasized the role of archetypes like the “shadow” and “persona” in personality?
a) Freud
b) Jung
c) Adler
d) Erikson
Ans: b) Jung
49. Which personality approach stresses the role of reinforcement, punishment, and
observational learning?
a) Trait approach
b) Behaviorist/social-cognitive approach
c) Psychoanalytic approach
d) Humanistic approach
Ans: b) Behaviorist/social-cognitive approach
50. Which PD is most resistant to treatment due to lack of insight and motivation?
a) Schizoid PD
b) Antisocial PD
c) Avoidant PD
d) Dependent PD
Ans: b) Antisocial PD
Rapid fire
1. Which personality disorder is characterized by intense fear of abandonment?
→ Borderline Personality Disorder
2. Which PD shows grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy?
→ Narcissistic PD
3. A person avoids social interactions due to fear of rejection. Which PD?
→ Avoidant PD
4. What is the hallmark of Antisocial Personality Disorder?
→ Disregard for others’ rights & lack of remorse
5. Which PD is most associated with unstable moods and relationships?
→ Borderline PD
6. Excessive attention-seeking and dramatic behavior indicates?
→ Histrionic PD
7. Which PD is called “little schizophrenias” because of eccentricity?
→ Schizotypal PD
8. Perfectionism + rigidity = ?
→ OCPD (Obsessive-Compulsive PD)
9. Suspicion and mistrust of others indicates?
→ Paranoid PD
10. Which cluster of PDs is called “dramatic, emotional, erratic”?
→ Cluster B
Abnormal Psychology & Disorders
11. Excessive worry for 6+ months = ?
→ Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
12. Sudden episode of intense fear = ?
→ Panic Attack
13. Persistent sadness + loss of interest = ?
→ Major Depressive Disorder
14. Periods of mania + depression = ?
→ Bipolar Disorder
15. Disorder with multiple distinct personalities = ?
→ Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
16. Phobia of social situations = ?
→ Social Anxiety Disorder
17. Hallucinations + delusions = ?
→ Schizophrenia
18. Anorexia nervosa is mainly about ?
→ Intense fear of gaining weight
19. Bulimia nervosa is characterized by ?
→ Binge eating + purging
20. Which disorder is linked to serotonin imbalance?
→ Depression
Learning & Cognition (quick recall)
21. Learning by consequences = ?
→ Operant Conditioning
22. Learning by association = ?
→ Classical Conditioning
23. “Bobo Doll” experiment studied what?
→ Observational Learning (Bandura)
24. Reinforcing successive steps toward a behavior = ?
→ Shaping
25. Sudden realization in problem-solving = ?
→ Insight Learning (Köhler)
26. Memory system for facts = ?
→ Explicit/Declarative Memory
27. Short-term memory capacity is?
→ 7 ± 2 items (Miller)
28. Saying “Every Good Boy Does Fine” to remember music notes is what?
→ Mnemonics
29. Mental shortcut used for problem-solving = ?
→ Heuristic
30. Rigid way of thinking that blocks solutions = ?
→ Mental Set
Fun/Tricky Mix
31. Which PD is most common among prisoners?
→ Antisocial PD
32. Which disorder is nicknamed the “common cold of psychology”?
→ Depression
33. Which neurotransmitter is linked to schizophrenia?
→ Dopamine
34. Which lobe of brain is crucial for decision-making?
→ Frontal lobe
35. Which disorder is linked with flashbacks after trauma?
→ PTSD
36. Which PD is most likely to stalk an ex-partner?
→ Borderline PD
37. Which therapy is most effective for phobias?
→ Exposure Therapy
38. Freud said OCD stems from fixation at which psychosexual stage?
→ Anal stage
39. What’s the difference between delusion and hallucination?
→ Delusion = false belief; Hallucination = false perception
40. Who developed the hierarchy of needs?
→ Abraham Maslow
Application-Based Quick Recall
41. If a person washes hands 50 times daily, ego-dystonic behavior indicates?
→ OCD
42. If a person insists others follow their rigid rules, ego-syntonic → ?
→ OCPD
43. Child hit by dog → fears all dogs. This is?
→ Generalization
44. Dog bite → fears only that dog. This is?
→ Discrimination
45. A depressed patient improves with SSRIs. What chemical increased?
→ Serotonin
46. Hoarding disorder is closely linked to which category?
→ OCD-related disorders
47. Excessive gambling is an example of failure in which control?
→ Impulse control
48. Memory of your first day at school is what type?
→ Episodic memory
49. Saying “I knew it all along” after results is called?
→ Hindsight bias
50. IQ test measuring problem-solving speed taps into?
→ Fluid intelligence
51. Freud: Id is to pleasure principle as Ego is to ______ → Reality principle
52. A person avoids social contact due to fear of rejection. Disorder? → Avoidant PD
53. Jung’s anima represents the feminine side of the ______. → Male psyche
54. Which disorder is linked to lack of remorse? → Antisocial PD
55. True/False: Schizophrenia is a personality disorder. → False
56. “I drink because I’m stressed” → Which defense mechanism? → Rationalization
57. Who developed the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)? → Murray & Morgan
58. Fun Q: If Freud met Carl Rogers, what would they argue about? → Unconscious
vs. Self-actualization
59. Which PD is known as “drama queen” type? → Histrionic
60. DSM-5 groups personality disorders into how many clusters? → Three
61. Trait theory is often criticized for ignoring what? → Situational factors
62. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder differs from OCD how? →
Personality style vs. Anxiety disorder
63. A person worships their therapist and later hates them. Common in which PD? →
Borderline
64. “Fake confidence hiding insecurity” is most linked to? → Narcissistic PD
65. Which personality test is based on factor analysis? → 16 PF (Cattell)
66. Cluster C PDs are also called the ______ type. → Anxious/Fearful
67. A criminal with no empathy or guilt → likely has? → Antisocial PD
68. Which psychologist created the hierarchy of needs? → Maslow
69. Defense mechanism of “I didn’t fail, the teacher is unfair”? →
Projection/Rationalization
70. Personality described as “Type A” is linked with which health risk? → Heart
disease
Buzzer round
Personality Basics
1. Who proposed the psychoanalytic theory of personality?
→ Sigmund Freud
2. What is the pleasure principle governed by?
→ The Id
3. Which part of personality operates on the reality principle?
→ The Ego
4. Which personality structure is the moral conscience?
→ The Superego
5. Who proposed the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire?
→ Raymond Cattell
6. Which theory emphasizes traits as enduring characteristics?
→ Trait Theory
7. Big Five personality traits are also called?
→ OCEAN (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism)
8. Which psychologist is associated with social-cognitive theory?
→ Albert Bandura
9. What does self-actualization represent in Maslow’s hierarchy?
→ Fulfilling one’s full potential
10. Which defense mechanism involves attributing one’s impulses to others?
→ Projection
Personality Disorders
11. Excessive attention-seeking behavior characterizes which PD?
→ Histrionic PD
12. A person distrustful and suspicious of others likely has?
→ Paranoid PD
13. Antisocial PD is most strongly linked with lack of?
→ Empathy/remorse
14. Which PD is marked by instability in mood, self-image, and relationships?
→ Borderline PD
15. Perfectionism and rigid control point to which PD?
→ Obsessive-Compulsive PD
16. Which PD involves detachment from social relationships?
→ Schizoid PD
17. Odd, eccentric behavior and magical thinking are signs of?
→ Schizotypal PD
18. Excessive need for admiration and lack of empathy describe?
→ Narcissistic PD
19. Extreme shyness and fear of rejection define which PD?
→ Avoidant PD
20. Dependent PD is characterized by difficulty in making?
→ Independent decisions
Learning & Cognition (linked to disorders)
21. What type of conditioning explains phobias best?
→ Classical Conditioning
22. Token economies are based on which principle?
→ Operant Conditioning
23. Which psychologist is associated with classical conditioning?
→ Ivan Pavlov
24. Operant conditioning was proposed by?
→ B.F. Skinner
25. Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment studied what?
→ Observational Learning
26. Spontaneous recovery refers to what?
→ Reappearance of an extinguished response
27. Phobias are classified under which disorder category?
→ Anxiety Disorders
28. Obsessions are…?
→ Recurrent intrusive thoughts
29. Compulsions are…?
→ Repetitive behaviors to reduce anxiety
30. Systematic desensitization is used for treating?
→ Phobias
Diagnostic & Biological
31. What manual is used to classify mental disorders in the US?
→ DSM-5
32. Low levels of serotonin are linked with which disorder?
→ Depression
33. High dopamine activity is associated with?
→ Schizophrenia
34. Which brain part regulates fear and aggression?
→ Amygdala
35. Which lobe is most related to personality and decision making?
→ Frontal Lobe
36. Which neurotransmitter is linked with reward and pleasure?
→ Dopamine
37. Generalized Anxiety Disorder involves worry lasting at least?
→ 6 months
38. Bipolar disorder is characterized by alternating?
→ Mania and Depression
39. Schizophrenia is a disorder of what?
→ Thought, perception, and behavior
40. Hallucinations are disturbances in?
→ Perception
Fun/Tricky Quick Recall
41. Which PD is nicknamed “drama queen” of PDs?
→ Histrionic PD
42. Who is called the father of psychoanalysis?
→ Sigmund Freud
43. Which therapy is based on unconditional positive regard?
→ Person-Centered Therapy (Carl Rogers)
44. What is the Rorschach test used to assess?
→ Personality (projective test)
45. Which PD often overlaps with substance abuse and crime?
→ Antisocial PD
46. Exaggerated self-importance is the hallmark of?
→ Narcissistic PD
47. Which cognitive bias means blaming yourself for everything?
→ Personalization
48. The idea of “collective unconscious” was given by?
→ Carl Jung
49. Who proposed inferiority complex?
→ Alfred Adler
50. Which therapy is best for phobias and anxiety disorders?
→ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
51. Who coined the term collective unconscious? → Jung
52. Which cluster of personality disorders includes paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal?
→ Cluster A
53. Which neurotransmitter is linked with depression? → Serotonin
54. Defense mechanism of reverting to childhood behavior? → Regression
55. Which therapy is most effective for Borderline PD? → Dialectical Behavior
Therapy (DBT)
56. Who introduced the concept of inferiority complex? → Adler
57. Personality assessment technique using inkblots? → Rorschach Test
58. “Conditions of worth” were discussed by? → Carl Rogers
59. Term for persistent, irrational fear? → Phobia
60. Narcissistic PD is more common in which gender? → Males
