Personality Assessment
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Course Introduction
Personality Assessment explores the theories, methods, and tools used to evaluate individual differences in personality traits, behaviors, and emotional functioning. The course covers topics such as standardized testing, projective techniques, self-report inventories, and observational methods. Students will gain an understanding of the psychometric properties of assessment instruments, ethical considerations, and the application of personality assessment in clinical, counseling, and organizational settings. Through practical exercises and case studies, students will develop skills in administering, scoring, and interpreting various personality measures, preparing them for professional practice and further research in the field of psychology.
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The Person An Introduction to the Science of Personality Psychology 5th Edition by Dan P. McAdams
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Chapter 1: Studying the Person
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Q1) Which of the following is not considered a characteristic adaptation?
A) The achievement motive
B) Religious values
C) The life intimacy task
D) Friendliness
Answer: D
Q2) A teenager who understands her entire life as a journey on the path to becoming an accomplished musician provides us with an example of a
A) Dispositional trait
B) Characteristic adaptation
C) Life story
D) None of the above
Answer: C
Q3) According to Allport,
A) Traits have motivational features
B) Motivation directs traits
C) Behavior determines traits and motivation
D) Unconscious forces shape human individuality
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Evolution and Human Nature
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Q1) What is the evolutionary function of attachment according to Bowlby?
A) Cognitive development in the infant
B) Protection of the infant from predators
C) Proper nutritional balance
D) Group solidarity through intimate bonds
Answer: B
Q2) Kin selection increases inclusive fitness because it
A) Promotes one's own survival
B) Benefits biological relatives who have similar genes
C) Builds groups solidarity and defense of the group against attack
D) Makes it more likely that one will be helped in return
Answer: B
Q3) According to Hogan's socioanalytic theory of personality, a person's character structure is formed through
A) The child's patterns of self-presentation to parents
B) The methods of reward and punishment employed by parents in child training
C) Accepting and rejecting parental values concerning goodness, truth, and religion
D) Resolving conflicts between different childhood roles
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Social Learning and Culture
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Q1) Which of the following statements is not true about individualistic cultures?
A) Personal goals take precedent over group goals
B) Social life tends to resemble a marketplace in which people exchange material and emotional resources
C) The individual self is encouraged to be an autonomous and agent
D) People tend to downplay the importance of love and friendship
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following component processes in observational learning is involved in the encoding and remembering of a model's behavior?
A) Reproduction
B) Motivation
C) Retention
D) Attention
Answer: C
Q3) John Locke's doctrine of tabula rasa suggests that
A) At birth the mind is a blank slate
B) Human beings organize experience through innate cognitive categories
C) Rewards and punishments are the main determinants of behavior and thought
D) Development occurs in stages
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Personality Traits: Fundamental Concepts and Issues
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Q1) A key factor-analytic finding regarding traits by Cattell was that
A) Surface traits can be based on a smaller number of underlying source traits
B) There are more source traits than surface traits
C) Dynamic traits are surface traits, while ability traits and temperament traits are source traits
D) Surface traits and source traits are interchangeable trait descriptors
Q2) On the California Psychological Inventory CPI), low scores on which of the following scales are associated with criminal behavior and delinquency?
A) Socialization
B) Achievement via independence
C) Well-being
D) Dominance
Q3) Which of the following statements best characterizes scientific research on the Myers Briggs types?
A) Strong scientific support for all types except the thinking-feeling distinction
B) Low reliability but strong validity for the types
C) The test is comparable to the NEO-PI-R and other standard personality tests
D) Scientific evidence for the validity of the test is weak
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Chapter 5: Five Basic Traits in the Brain and in Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following Big Five traits captures best the idea of social dominance?
A) Agreeableness
B) Openness to Experience
C) Conscientiousness
D) Extraversion
Q2) Empirical research suggests that extraversion is positively associated with which of the following strategies for coping with stress?
A) Escapist fantasy
B) Positive thinking
C) Religious faith
D) Humor
Q3) Which of the following stress areas has been shown to be most strongly associated with high neuroticism?
A) Work overload
B) Time urgency
C) Arguments
D) Failures in competition
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Environments, and Time
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Q1) If a particular behavior pattern is so strongly determined by genetics that all members of a population have the pattern in virtually equal amounts, then the heritability quotient for this pattern in this population is likely to be approximately
A) 100%
B) 75%
C) 50%
D) 0%
Q2) Which of the following conclusions regarding the 5-HT serotonin transporter gene is supported by research?
A) Inheriting one or two short alleles of 5-HTTP is associated with depression
B) Inheriting two long alleles of 5-HTTP is associated with depression
C) Inheriting one or two short alleles of 5-HTTP is associated with depression only when high levels of stress are also experienced
D) Inheriting two long alleles of 5-HTTP is associated with depression only when high levels of stress are also experienced
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Chapter 7: Motives and Goals: What Do We Want in Life
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Q1) Repression means to
A) Make something unconscious
B) Consciously hold back threatening information
C) Hurt another person or damage the environment
D) Defend against anxiety
Q2) According to self-determination theory, behaviors that enhance organismic integration are those that
A) Fulfill basic needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness
B) Are consistent with the values that society espouses
C) Are congruent with a person's self-chosen goals and aspirations
D) produce experiences of flow
Q3) When people high in power motivation experience defeat in competitive situations, they tend to
A) Experience a strong increase in cortisol and other stress hormones
B) Experience increases in testosterone level
C) Show a sharp decrease in oxytocin and other hormones associated with affiliation
D) Show a resilient physiological profile that enables them to rebound and seek out opportunities for dominance
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Chapter 8: Self and Other: Social-Cognitive Aspects of Personality
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Q1) A field-independent cognitive style is
A) Contextual
B) Global
C) Analytical
D) Systemic
Q2) Self-schemata differ from schemata of other sorts in all of the following ways except that they are
A) Loaded with emotion
B) Larger and more complex
C) More objective and accurate
D) More often activated in daily life
Q3) According to Cantor and Kihlstrom's view of social intelligence, intelligent action is A) Reflexive
B) Stereotypic
C) Flexible
D) Indiscriminate
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Chapter 9: Developmental Stages and Tasks
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Q1) According to Erikson, 4- and 5-year-old children show marked gender differences in many areas of play, such that boys tend to adopt a more mode whereas girls are more
A) Powerful, intimate
B) Phallic, anal
C) Independent, social
D) Intrusive, inclusive
Q2) According to Erikson, a prerequisite for healthy and productive generativity is
A) A minimum of anxiety
B) Meaning in life
C) A belief in humankind
D) Self-confidence
Q3) As theories of human development, Loevinger's model of the ego tends to emphasize ____whereas Erikson's psychosocial stages tend to emphasize ____.
A) Self, other
B) Subjectivity, objectivity
C) Coping, adaptation
D) Structure, content
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Chapter 10: Life Scripts, Life Stories
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Q1) Compared to North Americans, East Asian adults typically
A) Show an earlier age of first memory
B) Have longer and more detailed autobiographical memories
C) Construct more intuitive narrative identities
D) Fashion personal memories with less emphasis on the self
Q2) In a commitment script,
A) An original good scene turns bad
B) An original bad scene turns good
C) An original good scene continues to recruit positive affect
D) An original bad scene continues to recruit negative affect
Q3) To say that a narrative identity integrates a life is to say that it
A) Brings happiness and fulfillment to a person's life
B) Brings together different parts of a person's life
C) Offers important life lessons
D) Connects the individual to ultimate truths about life
Q4) According to Tomkins, a script is
A) A generic plot in a person's life story
B) A set of implicit rules concerning how to organize scenes
C) A meaningful collections of scenes
D) An infantile complex that organizes drives, needs, and affect
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Chapter 11: Interpreting Peoples Stories: From Freud to Today
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Q1) Bruner argues that a story is not told until there is a "deviation from the canonical." He means that if a story is to be considered worth telling, it must contain
A) Something unexpected
B) Violation of society's laws
C) A hero
D) A moral lesson about how not to live
Q2) Adler's concept of striving for superiority refers to a basic human desire for
A) Power
B) Communion
C) Completion
D) Happiness
Q3) In the normal resolution of the Oedipus complex,
A) Identification follows object choice
B) Object choice follows identification
C) The superego takes over the ego's domain
D) The ego takes over the superego's domain
Q4) Some feminist approaches to life narrative argue that examining women's lives requires different strategies and approaches than those that might be used to understand the lives of men. Do the students agree?
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Chapter 12: Writing Stories of Lives: Biography and the Life Course
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Q1) According to Jacques, the creative artist before midlife shows which of the following forms of creativity?
A) "Hot-from-the-fire<sup>"</sup>
B) Sculpted and philosophical
C) "The golden mean"
D) Uneven and unfinished
Q2) The main purpose of medieval hagiographies was
A) Veneration of Christian saints
B) Exposure of sinful ways of men and women
C) Moral instruction for everyday life
D) Entertainment
Q3) According to Levinson, men may emerge from the midlife transition in their late 40s in a state of
A) Despair
B) Renewed confidence
C) Changed identity
D) Any of the above
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