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Course Introduction
Psychological Assessment is a course designed to introduce students to the theory, principles, and methods used in measuring psychological variables such as intelligence, personality, aptitudes, and mental health. The course explores various types of psychological tests, including their development, administration, interpretation, and ethical considerations. Students will learn about test reliability, validity, and standardization, as well as the practical applications of assessment tools in clinical, educational, and organizational settings. Emphasis is placed on understanding both the strengths and limitations of different assessment approaches and on fostering cultural sensitivity in test administration and interpretation.
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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) Jeff suspects that his roommate's sexist jokes may indicate that his roommate has some hidden, unconscious hostility toward women or that he feels very insecure around women. Jeff's analysis suggests a ________ approach to personality.
A) psychoanalytic
B) trait
C) phenomenological
D) behaviorist
Answer: A
Q2) Personality psychology and clinical psychology overlap most often when approaching which topic?
A) personality processes
B) personality disorders
C) personality development
D) none of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Clues to Personality: the Basic Sources of Data
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Q1) While completing the Acme Personality Inventory, you answer True to the item "I consider myself a nervous person." Your response to this item would be an example of ________ data.
A) L
B) I
C) S
D) B
Answer: C
Q2) When a psychologist asks a question because he or she wants to know the answer, the question elicits ________. When a psychologist asks a question because he or she wants to see how the individual will respond to that stimulus, the test elicits ________.
A) B data; I data
B) S data; I data
C) S data; B data
D) laboratory B data; natural B data
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Personality Psychology As Science: Research Methods
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Q1) Which of the following is good practice for interpreting correlations?
A) finding a method that demonstrates the size of the correlation in a concrete manner
B) using terms such as small, medium, and large to describe the effect size
C) simply looking at the sign of the correlation and ignoring the actual value
D) squaring the value, so that you can interpret the value more easily
Answer: A
Q2) Random assignment allows researchers to ________.
A) ignore problems of measurement
B) assume that groups of participants are more or less equivalent on preexisting conditions
C) ignore ethical constraints on research
D) control for selective attrition
Answer: B
Q3) Validity is much easier to judge than reliability.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior
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Q1) Someone who is ________ is likely to express his or her personality consistently from one situation to the next.
A) low in self-monitoring
B) high in self-monitoring
C) low in self-efficacy
D) high in self-efficacy
Q2) Walter Mischel and his 1968 book Personality and Assessment are noteworthy because this work ________.
A) provides the most cogent argument for why trait theory and psychodynamic theory should be integrated
B) is credited with starting the person-situation debate by claiming that traits are not as important as situational factors in behavioral prediction
C) provides the first published defense of trait theory against the situationist critique
D) is the first modern research to begin to scientifically validate some of Freud's claims about the unconscious
Q3) Describe the three major aspects of the situationist argument. Explain how trait psychologists responded to this argument.
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Chapter 5: Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing
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Q1) Projective tests are not popular in the practice of clinical psychology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Eliminating the use of personality tests in employment screening will ________.
A) prevent biases from affecting hiring decisions
B) decrease the likelihood that women and minorities will be discriminated against in hiring
C) increase the use of lie detector tests and drug tests in employment screening
D) not prevent traits from being judged but will change the ways traits are judged
Q3) Not all items on objective tests are absolutely objective.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Face validity refers to whether the items on a scale are easy to read and understand for test takers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the purpose of factor analysis. How is this technique used in personality psychology and what are its limitations?
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Chapter 6: Personality Assessment Ii: Personality Judgment in
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Q1) According to the text, if peers based judgments on reputation and not observation, then researchers should find ________.
A) more agreement on unobservable traits compared to observable traits
B) more agreement on observable traits compared to unobservable traits
C) equal agreement for both observable and unobservable traits
D) no agreement in personality judgments whatsoever
Q2) According to the text, ________ describes a context where social norms tend to restrict what people do.
A) a weak situation
B) a socially constrained situation
C) a strong situation
D) situationism
Q3) Which of the following illustrates converging criteria that could be used to establish the accuracy of a personality judgment?
A) One of your friends describes you as an extravert.
B) You always show up to work on time, and your colleagues say that you are dependable and conscientious.
C) You tend to get into arguments and you throw tantrums frequently.
D) You describe yourself as intelligent, but you score low on an IQ test.
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Chapter 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior
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Q1) Based on research, the resident of which of these cities will probably score the highest on openness?
A) Des Moines, Iowa
B) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
C) Chicago, Illinois
D) Miami, Florida
Q2) The items on the California Q-Set were designed by a team of researchers and practitioners who generated a comprehensive set of terms sufficient to describe personality.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When compared to high self-monitors, people who score low in self-monitoring tend to ________.
A) perform better in job interviews
B) use strategies to influence coworkers
C) be willing to lie to get a date
D) masturbate less often
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) Which glucocorticoid hormone involved with the fight-or-flight response generates increased heart rate and blood pressure?
A) serotonin
B) estrogen
C) progesterone
D) cortisol
Q2) According to one theory proposed by Australian psychologists, oxytocin is more than just a "love" hormone because it seems to ________.
A) facilitate approach behavior
B) accentuate all behavioral tendencies
C) facilitate sex as well as bonding
D) places individuals at risk for social phobias
Q3) What part of Phineas Gage's brain was damaged in his accident?
A) hippocampus
B) brain stem
C) cerebellum
D) frontal lobes
Q4) Describe Eysenck's original theory for the biological basis of extraversion. How much empirical support is there for this theory?
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Chapter 9: The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral
Genetics and Evolutionary Theory
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Q1) In responding to evolutionary theorizing, Eagly and Wood (1999) suggest that
A) societies' norms reflect men's greater size and strength and women's role in childbearing more than biologically hardwired behavioral tendencies
B) social norms are shaped by evolutionary forces and therefore impossible to change C) social norms regarding child care vary dramatically from one culture to the next D) the great diversity of gender roles across cultures undermines evolutionary perspectives
Q2) What is the precise meaning of a heritability coefficient?
A) the proportion of total variance in a trait that is due to genetic influences
B) the proportion of genetic influences in a trait that is due to inheritance
C) the chance that reliable genetic effects are statistically significant
D) the chance that genetic effects will replicate in an additional sample
Q3) The prevalence for the short allele of 5-HTT is higher in Caucasians than in Japanese populations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Basics of Psychoanalysis
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Q1) According to Freud, the ego ________.
A) follows the pleasure principle
B) tries to satisfy urges while acknowledging the constraints of the real world
C) emerges during the resolution of the Oedipal/Electra complexes
D) acts like your conscience by avoiding bad behavior and striving for morally correct behavior
Q2) Explain how dreaming is understood from a Freudian perspective. Describe Freud's topographic model and clearly define primary and secondary process thinking. Make sure to relate your discussion of dreaming to your discussion of primary and secondary thinking.
Q3) The superego's main function is to mediate between the id's impulses and the ego's sense of morality.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Psychoanalytic therapy emphasizes unconditional positive regard.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Freud was trained as a veterinarian.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Workings of the Unconscious Mind:
Defenses and Slips
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Q1) Dan was in a hurry and forgot to kiss his wife good-bye before leaving for work. Freud would say that ________.
A) the stress of being late made Dan forget
B) Dan's behavior is a symptom of fixation in the genital stage
C) Dan may harbor some form of hostility toward his wife
D) forgetting the kiss was an accident
Q2) According to the textbook, Freud's theory remains the only complete theory of personality ever proposed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The works of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were, according to Freud, examples of ________.
A) fixation
B) intellectualization
C) sublimation
D) projection
Q4) Trivialization is one kind of rationalization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians, Object Relations,
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Q1) Which of the following Freudian ideas is NOT supported by modern research?
A) Denial is a defense mechanism that the unconscious mind uses to keep a perception from emerging into consciousness.
B) The Oedipal crisis occurs in the phallic stage.
C) Much of what the mind does is unconscious.
D) There is evidence of conflict between different mental processes.
Q2) The two key dimensions of adult attachment are ambivalence about relationships and investment in relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The object relations theorist Melanie Klein suggests that important love relationships are mixed with emotions such as envy, fear, and guilt. People react to these emotions by
A) avoiding close relationships
B) resorting to idealizations of relationships
C) regressing to early stages of psychosexual development
D) adopting a new object
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) According to existentialist philosophy, the opposite of living in bad faith is
A) authentic existence
B) autotelic existence
C) objectivism
D) Eigenwelt
Q2) Existentialists believed that science, technology, and philosophy had lost touch with human experience.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research indicates that financial status is more strongly linked with life satisfaction in richer nations as opposed to poorer nations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Eigenwelt includes the experience of introspection.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
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Q1) Individuals from which country would be the least willing to describe themselves in contradictory terms?
A) China
B) Japan
C) India
D) United States
Q2) What are the reasons why cultural differences in personality might be exaggerated?
Q3) According to the text, which characteristic of cultures might be the most difficult to judge?
A) toughness
B) tightness
C) heart
D) complexity
Q4) According to the text, which of the following is considered to have a collectivist-vertical society?
A) United States
B) Israel
C) Japan
D) China
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Chapter 15: Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theories
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Q1) A utilitarian always values happiness over freedom.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Philosopher John Locke's conception of the newborn mind as a tabula rasa (blank slate) is closely associated with the idea of ________.
A) associationism
B) empiricism
C) rationalism
D) existentialism
Q3) Freedom to select situations is an important corollary of behaviorist principles.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Bobo doll studies of aggression demonstrated that ________.
A) changing efficacy expectations can facilitate behavioral change
B) expectancies vary across situations
C) children will imitate positive but not negative behaviors
D) learning can occur vicariously through observation
Q5) Identify and describe the three philosophical ideas that are fundamental to behaviorism.
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Chapter 16: Personality Processes: Perception, Thought,
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Q1) There is no evidence that happiness leads to good outcomes; rather, evidence suggests that happiness is a result of good outcomes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bicultural individuals often have difficulty quickly switching cultural frames of reference.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A person with a developmental goal will most likely respond to failure with a(n) ________ pattern of behavior.
A) helpless
B) mastery-oriented
C) anxiety-driven
D) pessimistic
Q4) Essential goals that almost everyone pursues are called ________ goals.
A) development
B) judgment
C) nomothetic
D) idiographic
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Q1) The ________ self is NOT one of the self-relevant schemas that are part of self-discrepancy theory.
A) rejected
B) actual
C) ideal
D) ought
Q2) What term refers to self-schemas based on our past experience that direct how we relate to the important people in our lives?
A) relational self-schema
B) self-in-relationship schema
C) interdependence self-schema
D) interdependent self-schema
Q3) According to the text, the self-related phenomena studied by cognitively oriented personality psychologists and the phenomena studied by trait psychologists are very different.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Disorders of Personality
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Q1) Which disorder appears in the DSM Cluster B?
A) avoidant
B) paranoid
C) antisocial
D) schizoid
Q2) Explain the distinction between ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic disorders. How might this issue affect the assessment of personality disorders? What strategies can be used to address this concern when attempting to diagnosis personality disorders?
Q3) Hallucinations are associated with schizoid personality disorder but not schizotypal personality disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the five maladaptive personality traits recently proposed for DSM-V. How do these traits relate to the Big Five traits and other personality trait constructs described in the textbook?
Q5) The American Psychological Association publishes the DSM.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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Q1) George Kelly believed that it was possible to view the same objective facts from different psychological perspectives.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are the three most important core themes you learned from the textbook and your personality class? You must clearly justify why these themes are important and why they offer critical insights into human nature. How can these themes be applied to everyday life in terms of understanding your own behavior or the behavior of those around you?
Q3) Draw on what you have learned about personality psychology to support the argument that the most important choices you make in life are the environments that you select.
Q4) The ________ approach emphasizes perception, motivations, and the self.
A) cognitive
B) biological
C) trait
D) cross-cultural
Q5) Funder identifies most strongly with the psychoanalytic approach to personality.
A)True
B)False
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