Personality, Intelligence & Mental Health Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

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 2

What is the name for Robert Sternberg's theory that intelligence has three aspects: the analytical ability tapped by traditional tests, the creative ability to deal with novelty, and the practical ability to adapt to everyday environments, sometimes called street smarts?

Question 3

What is the name for the widely accepted account of personality structure which holds that most individual differences boil down to five broad dimensions, often remembered by the letters OCEAN?

Question 4

What is the name for the policy shift, gathering pace from the 1960s, of closing large psychiatric hospitals and moving their long-stay residents into community-based housing and services?

Question 5

What is the name for the substantial, sustained rise in average raw intelligence-test scores recorded across the twentieth century in many countries, amounting to roughly three points per decade, which forces tests to be re-normed periodically?

Question 6

What is the name for the severe disorder involving a loss of contact with reality, typically with hallucinations, delusions and disorganised speech, usually first appearing in late adolescence or early adulthood?

Question 7

What is the name, in schizophrenia, for a symptom that represents a loss or absence of normal functioning, such as flattened emotional expression, poverty of speech, lack of motivation, social withdrawal and an inability to feel pleasure?

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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.