Personality, Intelligence & Mental Health Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What is the name, from Carl Rogers, for the attitude of total, non-judgemental acceptance and warmth toward another person, prizing them regardless of their behaviour, which he held to be necessary for healthy growth and central to good therapy?

Question 2

What is the name for the six-dimension model of personality that keeps versions of the familiar big traits but adds a sixth factor, honesty-humility, covering sincerity, fairness, modesty and a lack of greed and entitlement?

Question 3

What is the general name, in psychodynamic theory, for the unconscious tactics the ego uses to distort or block from awareness thoughts, feelings and impulses that would otherwise cause unbearable anxiety?

Question 4

What is the name for the concept, introduced by Alfred Binet, that expresses a child's test performance as the age at which that level of performance is typical, so that a bright six-year-old might have one of eight?

Question 5

What is the name for the kind of personality assessment that presents deliberately ambiguous material and asks the person to interpret it, on the assumption that they will project their own hidden needs, conflicts and feelings onto it?

Question 6

What is the name for Louis Thurstone's list of about seven relatively independent factors, including verbal comprehension, number, spatial visualisation, memory, reasoning, word fluency and perceptual speed, which he offered instead of a single overall ability?

Question 7

What is the name for the basic technique of psychoanalysis in which the patient, usually reclining, is asked to say aloud whatever comes into their mind without censoring it, however trivial, embarrassing or irrelevant it seems?

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About Personality, Intelligence & Mental Health

This quiz is about individual differences and their disorders: how personality is described and explained, how intelligence is defined and tested, and how mental disorders are classified, understood and treated. Ninety questions in six packs, each describing a trait, a concept, a theory, a test, a disorder, a model or a treatment and asking you to name it from four choices of the same kind, then explaining it. It is a knowledge quiz.

The first pack covers trait theories of personality: the trait approach itself, the five-factor model and each of its dimensions, Eysenck's three-factor scheme, the lexical hypothesis, Cattell's source traits, the person-situation debate and interactionism, the HEXACO model, Allport's cardinal trait and the maturity principle.

The second pack covers the psychodynamic and humanistic traditions: the id, ego and superego, the defence mechanisms from repression to sublimation, Jung's collective unconscious and archetypes, Adler's inferiority complex, and Rogers's unconditional positive regard, fully functioning person and conditions of worth.

The third pack covers social-cognitive theory and personality assessment: reciprocal determinism, self-efficacy and locus of control, the nomothetic and idiographic approaches, self-report inventories and the MMPI with its lie scale, the projective tests including the Rorschach and the TAT, the Myers-Briggs indicator, the NEO-PI, social desirability responding and narrative identity.

The fourth pack covers intelligence: the intelligence quotient, mental age, the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler scales, the deviation score, Spearman's general factor and two-factor theory, fluid and crystallised intelligence, Thurstone's primary abilities, Gardner's multiple intelligences, Sternberg's triarchic theory, emotional intelligence, the Flynn effect and the normal distribution.

The fifth pack covers the classification of disorders and the anxiety, mood and psychotic conditions: the four Ds, the international classification, the diathesis-stress and biopsychosocial models, comorbidity, generalised anxiety and panic disorders, the phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression and the monoamine hypothesis, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, negative symptoms and expressed emotion.

The sixth pack covers further disorders and the treatments: the personality disorders with borderline and antisocial types, anorexia nervosa, dissociative identity disorder, free association and transference, cognitive behavioural therapy with cognitive restructuring and exposure and response prevention, person-centred therapy, the antipsychotics, lithium, deinstitutionalisation and the Rosenhan experiment.

The wrong answers are always other traits, concepts, theories, tests, disorders or treatments of the same kind. About thirty-six of the ninety questions carry a photograph of a neutral object, dice, poker chips, a stopwatch, a model brain or a microscope, chosen because every option is the same sort of thing and the picture cannot point to any of them. Facts have been checked against standard texts and current diagnostic manuals.