Personality, Intelligence & Mental Health Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What is the name for Howard Gardner's proposal that there is no single intelligence but a set of largely separate ones, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic?

Question 2

What is the name for the personality disorder marked by a pervasive instability of mood, self-image and relationships, frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, chronic emptiness, impulsive self-damaging acts and recurrent self-harm or suicidal behaviour?

Question 3

What is the name for the well-replicated finding that as people move through early and middle adulthood they tend, on average, to become more conscientious, more agreeable and more emotionally stable?

Question 4

What is the name for the controversial condition, once called multiple personality disorder, in which a person's identity is split into two or more distinct personality states that recurrently take control, with gaps in memory between them?

Question 5

What is the name, in Jung's theory, for one of the universal, inherited patterns or images that live in the deepest layer of the mind, such as the wise old man, the great mother, the trickster and the shadow, and that shape how people perceive and imagine?

Question 6

What is the name for the widely used framework which holds that a disorder appears when a pre-existing vulnerability, genetic, biological or psychological, is set off by enough environmental stress, so that neither the predisposition nor the stress alone is usually sufficient?

Question 7

What is the name for the humanistic talking treatment developed by Carl Rogers in which the therapist offers genuineness, accurate empathy and unconditional positive regard, trusting the client's own capacity to find their direction rather than giving advice or interpretation?

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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.