Personality Assessment Exam Review
Course Introduction
Personality Assessment is a course that examines the theories, methods, and applications involved in measuring individual differences in personality traits, patterns, and behaviors. Students explore both objective and projective techniques, such as self-report inventories, structured interviews, and performance-based measures. The course emphasizes the psychometric properties of assessment tools, including reliability, validity, and ethical considerations. Through case studies, practical exercises, and critical analysis, students learn to administer, score, interpret, and communicate findings from major personality assessment instruments used in clinical, counseling, and organizational contexts.
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The Personality Puzzle 6th Edition by David C. Funder
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Chapter 1: The Study of the Person
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Q1) In observing human behavior, it is impossible to ________.
A) understand everything about a person all at once
B) choose to limit what you look at in a person
C) find patterns across different kinds of observation
D) make any real progress toward solving the personality puzzle
Answer: A
Q2) Psychologists following the phenomenological approach ________.
A) focus on the workings of the unconscious mind and the resolution of internal mental conflict
B) study how overt behavior is affected by rewards and punishments
C) build theoretical models of how people process information
D) are concerned with our conscious experience of the world and the consequences of having free will
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is NOT part of the psychological triad?
A) behavior
B) thoughts
C) psychological health
D) feelings
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Clues to Personality: the Basic Sources of Data
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Q1) The Thematic Apperception Test and the Rorschach test elicit ________ data.
A) L
B) I
C) S
D) B Answer: D
Q2) Psychologists who try to predict age at first marriage from personality information typically have limited success.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) ________ data derive from the researcher's direct observation of what the subject does.
A) L
B) I
C) S
D) B Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Personality Psychology As Science: Research Methods
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Q1) A research strategy that involves gathering as many different measurements as you can of a particular construct and determining if those measurements correlate is called
A) construct validation
B) aggregation validation
C) generalization
D) internal validation
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a typical argument used to justify deception in psychological research?
A) Participants have given informed consent and can withdraw their data if they are upset.
B) The use of deception actually educates participants about ethical concerns in research.
C) The deception typically does not harm participants.
D) Some topics can only be studied using deception.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior
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Q1) Situationism is the position that ________.
A) situations do not influence behavior
B) situations are more important than personality traits in determining behavior
C) the ability of personality traits to predict behavior is severely limited
D) both b and c
Q2) In order to improve personality research, researchers can ________.
A) check for factors that predict consistency
B) predict behavioral trends rather than single acts
C) measure behavior in real life
D) all of the above
Q3) Describe the three major aspects of the situationist argument. Explain how trait psychologists responded to this argument.
Q4) The ultimate criterion for judging a measure of personality is whether it ________.
A) is reliable
B) is internally consistent
C) predicts behavior
D) has content validity
Q5) Explain the issues that are involved in judging the size of the correlation coefficient of .40.
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Chapter 5: Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing
and Its Consequences
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Q1) When we evaluate professional personality judgments, it is typically said that we are evaluating their ________, whereas when amateur personality judgments are evaluated, we are evaluating their ________.
A) accuracy; validity
B) validity; accuracy
C) reliability; validity
D) validity; reliability
Q2) If a test consists of a list of True/False questions and is graded using a computer-scored answer sheet, then it is a(n) ________.
A) projective test
B) Q-sort
C) objective test
D) commonality scale
Q3) According to the text, the last step in a factor analysis is to ________.
A) calculate correlation coefficients between all item pairs
B) administer the items to a new sample
C) find new criterion groups
D) name the factors
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Chapter 6: Personality Assessment Ii: Personality Judgment in
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Q1) Judgability seems to be one indicator of psychological adjustment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Judgments of your personality by others ________.
A) reflect who you are
B) create who you are
C) are too inaccurate to be used in research contexts
D) both reflect who you are and can influence what you are like
Q3) Self-fulfilling prophecies are more technically known as ________.
A) opportunistic fallacies
B) expectancy effects
C) consequential reputations
D) recency effects
Q4) The observation "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is probably a duck" illustrates the method of ________.
A) moderator variables
B) constructivist accuracy
C) procedural judgment
D) convergent validation
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Chapter 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior
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Q1) You must be high on intelligence to score highly on the openness dimension of the Big Five.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to one survey of employers, seven out of the top eight qualities sought in new employees involved ________.
A) intelligence
B) agreeableness
C) emotional intelligence
D) conscientiousness
Q3) A researcher who starts with an interest in delinquency and then identifies the traits associated with that category of behavior is taking a ________ approach.
A) single-trait
B) many-trait
C) essential-trait
D) typological
Q4) The Q-sort is the only way to get reliable S data using the many-trait approach.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
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Q1) Describe the evolution of psychosurgery. What important principles about the brain are illustrated by the limited successes of psychosurgeries?
Q2) Damasio's patient named Elliott had brain damage to the same region that was injured in Phineas Gage.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What part of Phineas Gage's brain was damaged in his accident?
A) hippocampus
B) brain stem
C) cerebellum
D) frontal lobes
Q4) How did researchers first learn about the functions of the frontal lobes? What are those functions? Describe the consequences of severe frontal lobe damage. What does this tell us about personality?
Q5) One theory about oxytocin is that the hormone is especially relevant for helping men bond with offspring given that men do not become pregnant.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral
Genetics and Evolutionary Theory
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Q1) What is the biggest confound in a typical parenting study that examines the correlation between parenting practices and the behaviors of offspring?
A) Most studies use adoption designs so there is no genetic link between parents and children.
B) It is difficult to measure parenting behavior with much reliability.
C) In most studies of parenting, parents and kids share genetic material.
D) Shared environmental factors were substantially larger than nonshared factors.
Q2) What gene seems to be related to the trait of neuroticism?
A) DRD4
B) SSRI
C) 5-HTT
D) APOA
Q3) The heritability of moderate mental retardation is higher than the heritability of severe mental retardation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Basics of Psychoanalysis
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Q1) What term did Freud use to describe the psychological respite or time out that occurs before the genital stage?
A) exploratory stage
B) rest period
C) latency stage
D) moratorium stage
Q2) Joe developed a fixation in the phallic stage. When he experiences a great deal of stress at work, Joe will likely become ________.
A) disorganized
B) uninterested in sex
C) dependent and passive
D) overcontrolled and anxious
Q3) What marks the end of the latency stage?
A) marriage
B) the selection of a career
C) puberty
D) the start of formal education
Q4) Identify and describe the four key ideas of psychoanalysis. Provide clear examples as to how these are exemplified by specific concepts in Freud's theory.
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Chapter 11: The Workings of the Unconscious Mind:
Defenses and Slips
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Q1) One criticism of psychoanalytic theory is that Freud considered the development of women to be ________.
A) the basis of male development
B) a deviation from the male model
C) an example of normal development
D) unworthy of discussion
Q2) Use psychoanalytic theory to explain sexist and/or racist humor. Make sure to explain why these jokes seem to work for some people but not for others.
Q3) Ego psychologists believe that the most important function of the ego is compromise formation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Leakages of forbidden impulses from the id are called parapraxes if they are ________ and humor if they are ________.
A) uncontrolled; controlled
B) intentional; unintentional
C) idiotic; funny
D) direct; indirect
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Chapter 12: Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians,
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Q1) Mike's prototypical woman is sensitive and intelligent. Mike's idealized image of a woman is his ________.
A) unconscious compensation
B) animus
C) anima
D) feminine persona
Q2) According to Melanie Klein, the ________ position refers to a child's desire to worship and protect the good parts of an object because he or she fears losing them.
A) depressive
B) constructive
C) enhancing
D) paranoid
Q3) Freud's phallic stage corresponds to Erikson's stage of ________.
A) industry vs. inferiority
B) basic trust vs. mistrust
C) initiative vs. guilt
D) autonomy vs. shame and doubt
Q4) Identify and discuss the four principles of object relations theory. How is attachment theory similar to object relations theory?
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Chapter 13: Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life:
Humanistic and Positive Psychology
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Q1) Research indicates that financial status is more strongly linked with life satisfaction in richer nations as opposed to poorer nations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Rogerian therapy emphasizes the importance of listening on the part of the therapist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe Rogerian psychotherapy. What does a Rogerian therapist attempt to do for clients? Why does Rogers think this approach should work? What might be a downside to a humanistic view of mental health?
Q4) Self-determination theorists believe that eudaimonia is dangerous.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to Sartre, the existential challenge is to ________.
A) avoid thinking about the meaning of existence
B) face the basic uncertainty and anguish of life and find personal meaning
C) maintain generativity and avoid stagnation
D) become a fully functioning, self-actualizing person
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Chapter 14: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
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Q1) The tendency to see members of your own group as very different from one another but the members of groups to which you do not belong as very similar to each other is called the ________.
A) ethnocentric error
B) in-group favoritism bias
C) bicultural contrast error
D) outgroup homogeneity bias
Q2) Which finding has been used to support the argument that personality itself has no meaning in collectivist societies?
A) the inability of researchers to find Big Five domains in cultures outside of the United States
B) the relatively few number of trait-related words in Chinese
C) the inability of Japanese individuals to understand personality inventories
D) the lack of predictive validity of trait measures in Asian countries
Q3) Indians (individuals from India) prefer to place an X next to the part of the form that does NOT apply.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theories
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Q1) Based on recent research regarding the ability to forecast emotional reactions to major events, people tend to ________.
A) be accurate judges of the emotional impact of future events
B) underestimate the emotional impact of negative events but not positive events
C) underestimate the emotional impact of positive events but not negative events
D) overestimate the emotional impact of both negative and positive events
Q2) An individual with an internal locus of control tends to have low generalized expectancies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A ranked ordering of the behaviors that an individual might perform is called a(n)
A) expectancy value theory
B) efficacy expectation list
C) habit hierarchy
D) behavior potential
Q4) Explain what it takes to make punishment effective. What are the dangers of punishment? What are alternatives to punishment and why might these approaches be more effective than punishment?
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Chapter 16: Personality Processes: Perception, Thought,
Motivation, and Emotion
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Q1) People seem to know that it is irrational to be more upset about running 30 minutes late and missing a plane by a minute (i.e., the plane departure was delayed) than about being 30 minutes late and missing a plane by 30 minutes (i.e., the plane took off as scheduled).
A)True
B)False
Q2) What dimension is not typically included in the definition of happiness used by contemporary researchers?
A) eudaimonia
B) general life satisfaction
C) low levels of negative emotion
D) domain-specific satisfactions
Q3) According to research on goals across the life span, individuals who are near the end of their lives typically shift goals from ________.
A) exploring the world to having emotionally meaningful experiences
B) having emotionally meaningful experiences to accepting decay
C) getting along to going at it alone
D) the development type to the judgment type
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Chapter 17: What You Know About You: the Self
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Q1) What state government set up a task force to enhance the self-esteem of its residents?
A) Texas
B) Massachusetts
C) California
D) Oregon
Q2) Self-knowledge can be divided into ________ knowledge and ________ knowledge.
A) procedural; episodic
B) procedural; declarative
C) procedural; semantic
D) declarative; explicit
Q3) According to William James, the ________ does the thinking and sensing, whereas the ________ is the object of thoughts about the self.
A) I; me
B) me; I
C) independent self; interdependent self
D) interdependent self; independent self
Q4) Define the distinction between declarative self-knowledge and procedural self-knowledge. Identify and describe the important aspects of declarative self-knowledge.
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Chapter 18: Disorders of Personality
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Q1) Explain how personality disorders might simply represent extreme manifestations of traits that are desirable when they are in the "normal" range. Provide at least five concrete examples. What are the broader implications of the ability to describe features of abnormal personality using common personality dimensions?
Q2) Which of the following is NOT accurate regarding structured interviews?
A) They tend to be fairly reliable.
B) The method corrects for many of the limitations of S data.
C) They are often considered the gold standard for psychological diagnosis.
D) They require at least minimal training to administer (e.g., undergraduate training in social science).
Q3) According to the textbook, one purpose of the DSM is to ________, and a second is to ________.
A) make psychiatric diagnosis more objective; guide research on disorders
B) make psychiatric diagnosis more objective; facilitate insurance billing
C) guide research on disorders; facilitate biological research on disorders
D) facilitate genetic research on disorders; make psychiatric diagnosis more objective
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Chapter 19: Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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Q1) Funder believes that the lack of a single unified approach to thoughts, feelings, and behaviors might ultimately prove to be the greatest weakness of psychology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Imagine you are asked to give the lecture in Psychology 101 (Introduction to Psychology) that covers personality psychology. You have a very limited amount of time to expose students to this subdiscipline. What are you going to cover? What findings are you going to emphasize and why? You should strive to present cross-cutting themes that cover multiple approaches to personality.
Q3) The ________ approach includes a focus on the heritability of some aspects of personality.
A) trait
B) biological C) humanistic
D) social learning
Q4) Funder identifies most strongly with the psychoanalytic approach to personality.
A)True
B)False
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