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Personality Assessment is a comprehensive course designed to introduce students to the theories, methods, and applications of personality measurement within psychological practice and research. The course covers both objective and projective techniques, including standardized self-report inventories, observational assessments, and clinical interviewing methods. Emphasis is placed on the reliability, validity, and ethical considerations involved in administering, scoring, and interpreting various assessment tools. Through a combination of lectures, practical exercises, and case studies, students gain hands-on experience in selecting appropriate tools, interpreting results, and integrating findings into broader psychological evaluations.
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Personality Theory and Research 12th Edition by Daniel Cervone
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Chapter 1: Personality Theory: From Everyday Observations to Systematic Theories
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Q1) The extreme views on whether the determinants of behavior are internal or external are represented by which pair of names?
A) Allport/Freud.
B) Sullivan/White.
C) Freud/Skinner.
D) White/Kuhn.
Answer: C
Q2) Goals, drives, and motives have been particularly central to _____ aspect of personality theories.
A) structure
B) process
C) developmental
D) all of the above
Answer: B
Q3) The text defines personality mainly in terms of A) consistent patterns of behavior.
B) unconscious wishes.
C) traits.
D) all of the above.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Scientific Study of People
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Q1) The fact that the group data may not reflect individual functioning is a potential argument for the use of
A) clinical research / case studies.
B) experimental research.
C) correlational research.
D) none of the above.
Answer: A
Q2) Steele's research on stereotype threat demonstrated that stereotype threat processes
A) impair performance.
B) improve performance by motivating individuals.
C) have no affect on performance.
Answer: A
Q3) Problems of response style and social desirability are particularly relevant to A) laboratory research.
B) correlational research.
C) questionnaires.
D) naturalistic observation.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: A Psychodynamic Theory: Freuds
Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
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Q1) Research on projection suggests that defenses
A) are specific to content and circumstances.
B) are specific to content, but not circumstances.
C) are specific to circumstances, but not content.
D) are not affected by content and circumstances.
Answer: A
Q2) The id represents the source of all drive energy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Within the psychoanalytic system of personality and personality development, the transition from "Primary Process" thinking to "Secondary Process" thinking is parallel to A) development of the id and the superego.
B) the development of the ego and the superego.
C) the development of the id and the ego.
D) none of the above.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Freuds Psychodynamic Theory: Applications,
Related Theoretical Conceptions, and Contemporary Research
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Q1) The "will to power" refers to
A) the neurotic drive to "move against."
B) striving for superiority.
C) Oedipal competition with the father.
D) preoccupation with controlling defecation.
Q2) Adler's concept for people's response to organ weaknesses and psychological feelings of inferiority was
A) reaction formation.
B) aggression.
C) compensatory strivings.
D) learned helplessness.
Q3) Jung emphasized the struggles individuals have with various opposing forces within them. What does he suggest, then, is all individuals' fundamental personal task?
A) To further diversify these various opposing forces.
B) To integrate these various opposing forces.
C) To exorcise these various opposing forces.
D) To sublimate these various opposing forces.
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Q4) Discuss Freud's view of how psychoanalysis leads to positive personality change.
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Chapter 5: A Phenomenological Theory: Carl Rogers
Person-Centered Theory of Personality
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Q1) A criticism of Rogers's concept of self-esteem is that it is A) too global.
B) too specific.
C) too vague.
D) too concrete.
Q2) Parents with high self-esteem were found to A) give little guidance.
B) set ambiguous limits.
C) make clear demands.
D) all of the above.
Q3) For Rogers, the source of most concepts is (are)
A) novels.
B) experiments.
C) psychological tests.
D) therapy.
Q4) According to Rogers, distortion and denial are defenses against incongruence.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Compare the views of Freud and Rogers on the nature of the person and science.
Q6) Discuss Rogers' views of the self, self processes, and their measurement.
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Chapter 6: A Phenomenological Theory - Applications and Evaluation of Rogers Theory
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Q1) Which of the following is not a strength of Rogers' theory?
A) provides for measures of key concepts.
B) recognizes integrated aspects of personality.
C) integrates humanism with science.
D) focuses on important areas of personality.
Q2) Terror management's predictions rest on what major assumptions?
A) People have a desire to live.
B) People are aware of the inevitability of death.
C) Both a and b are correct.
D) Neither a nor b are correct.
Q3) Within the Rogerian framework, the neurotic person is a person
A) whose psychic energy is released indirectly through pathological behavior because direct expression of needs and drives would be too threatening to the self.
B) whose self-concept reflects nothing more than his organismic experience.
C) whose self-concept does not reflect accurately organismic experience.
D) both (a) and (b).
Q4) Experimental research supports Rogers' concept of self-actualization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Trait Approaches to Personality - Allport,
Eyesneck and Cattell
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Q1) According to Allport, the concept of trait expresses
A) a range of possible behavior.
B) a specific response in a specific situation.
C) the uniqueness of personality.
D) the stability of personality over the course of a life-time.
Q2) Cattell was a supporter of idiographic research.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research on the genetic contribution to traits is most apparent in the work of
A) Allport and Cattell.
B) Eysenck and Cattell.
C) Allport and Eysenck.
D) Allport, Eysenck, and Cattell.
Q4) According to Allport, which of the following represent the least conspicuous and generalized dispositions?
A) cardinal traits.
B) secondary traits.
C) tertiary dispositions.
D) central traits.
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Chapter 8: Trait Theory: the Five-Factor Model: Applications and Evaluation of the Trait Approach
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Q1) The person responsible for the fundamental lexical hypothesis is A) Allport.
B) Eysenck.
C) Goldberg.
D) Costa.
Q2) Which is not a strength of trait theory?
A) investigation of relationships among many variables.
B) emphasis on multiple research strategies.
C) development of assessment devices.
D) development of static concepts.
Q3) The existence of universal terms for describing individual differences would be __________ an evolutionary perspective.
A) consistent with
B) inconsistent with
C) simultaneously consistent AND inconsistent with D) irrelevant to
Q4) Women but not men become increasingly conscientious with age.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Biological Foundations of Personality
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Q1) Genes influence environments via A) selection of environments.
B) eliciting environmental responses.
C) both a and b.
D) neither a nor b.
Q2) The text suggests that
A) evidence of inheritance does not mean environment is unimportant.
B) evidence of inheritance does not mean temperament is fixed.
C) evidence of inheritance does not mean early experience is unimportant.
D) all of the above.
Q3) Dopamine is suggested to be most associated with A) PE.
B) NE.
C) C.
D) DvC.
Q4) Parenthood probability theory leads
A) females to be more concerned about rivals than males.
B) males to be more concerned about rivals than females.
C) males and females to be equally concerned about rivals.
D) to genetic counseling procedures.
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Chapter 10: Behaviorism and the Learning Approaches to Personality
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Q1) According to the text, the behavior therapist would be most likely to compare his role as a therapist to that of
A) an engineer.
B) an advisor.
C) a substitute parent.
D) an administrator.
Q2) For Skinner, depression may be viewed as a result of A) punishment.
B) withdrawal of positive reinforcers.
C) intermittent reinforcement.
D) all of the above.
Q3) Behavioral assessment
A) generally is tied to treatment objectives.
B) generally assumes the existence of some person variables.
C) both (a) and (b).
D) neither (a) nor (b).
Q4) According to Skinner, superstitious behavior develops because of an accidental relationship between response and reinforcement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: A Cognitive Theory of Personality: George a Kellys
Personal Construct Theory of Personality
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Q1) According to Kelly, people are different in their constructs but follow the same principles of construct system functioning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) For Kelly, life-long values are likely to be
A) core constructs.
B) peripheral constructs.
C) motives.
D) none of the above.
Q3) Describe Kelly's approach to personality change and contrast it with that of Freud.
Q4) The constructs found on the Rep Test
A) depend on the role figures used.
B) are representative of the person's world.
C) both (a) and (b).
D) neither (a) nor (b).
Q5) According to Kelly, scientific theories should be designed to be modified and eventually abandoned.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Social Cognitive Theory: Bandura and Mischel
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Q1) Imagine a client seeking help with an irrational fear, such as the fear of being in social settings with large numbers of other people (i.e., agoraphobia). How would a social-cognitive theorist treat the person's fear? Compare this approach with that of psychoanalysis.
Q2) Social cognitive theorists strongly emphasize A) variability in behavior.
B) traits
C) reinforcers in the acquisition of responses.
D) all of the above.
Q3) A major theme is Bandura's work is that people
A) can learn merely by observation.
B) have the capacity to self-regulate their actions and experiences.
C) contribute agentically to their own development.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.
Q4) What are the core personality variables in social cognitive theory? How do these contrast with the sort of personality variables found in trait theory (e.g., in the Big Five model)?
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Chapter 13: Social-Cognitive Theory: Extensions,
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Q1) Work by the psychologist Tory Higgins on self-concept, self-discrepancies, and emotion indicates that people tend to feel ______ when they experience a discrepancy between the _______________.
A) anxious; actual and ought self
B) depressed; actual and ought self
C) anxious; actual and ideal self
D) depressed; ideal and ought self
Q2) The cognitive triad involves views concerning
A) self, world, and future.
B) communists, criminals, and conglomerates.
C) development, pathology, and change.
D) I should, I ought, and I must.
Q3) According to research findings and anecdotal evidence by Flett, Hewitt and colleagues, an adaptive lifestyle may be one that mixes _____ standards of achievement with the capacity to accept aspects of ourselves that are _____ perfect.
A) low; not
B) high; not
C) low; overly
D) high; overly
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Chapter 14: Personality in Context: Interpersonal Relations,
Culture, and Development Across the Course of Life
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Q1) Social-cognitive theory cannot explain the cross-situational consistency of personality functioning.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compared in Western nations, in Asian cultures self concept is
A) non-existent.
B) barely existent.
C) more independent.
D) more interdependent.
Q3) People in India have been found to be less likely to attribute causes of actions to A) personality characteristics.
B) situations.
C) chance.
D) all of the above.
Q4) Rejection sensitivity is
A) not a personality variables.
B) a global, decontextualized personality variable.
C) a contextualized personality variable.
D) none of the above.
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Chapter 15: An Overview of Personality Theory, Assessment, and Research
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Q1) A consistent area of emphasis in the text is the effect of a theorist's view of the person on the theory of personality. With regard to this issue, the text suggests A) that a theorist should attempt to construct a theory free from any a priori assumptions about human nature.
B) that personal views act as a corrective influence in the interpretation of data that are collected.
C) that one should always ask whether an interpretation is a necessary conclusion from the data or whether it represents the theorist's personal view of human nature.
D) both (b) and (c).
Q2) Psychoanalytic theory is unique in its emphasis on the importance of conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The therapy in which individuals are asked to behave as if they were a different person is
A) fixed-role therapy.
B) RET.
C) client-centered therapy.
D) behavior therapy.
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