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Psychological Assessment provides an in-depth exploration of the theories, principles, and methods used to evaluate cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning in individuals. The course covers key assessment tools including standardized tests, interviews, observational techniques, and self-report measures. Students will examine test construction, administration, scoring, interpretation, and ethical considerations. Emphasis is placed on understanding measurement reliability and validity, cultural fairness, and the application of psychological assessments in clinical, educational, and organizational settings. The course prepares students to critically analyze assessment data and to make informed decisions based on empirical evidence.
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Theories of Personality 7th Edition by Jess Feist
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Personality Theory
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Q1) The word personality comes from the Latin word "persona," meaning A)that which one truly is.
B)the evil side of people.
C)theatrical mask.
D)soul.
Answer: C
Q2) A reliable test
A)is always valid.
B)measures what it purports to measure.
C)correlates positively with its validity.
D)yields consistent results.
Answer: D
Q3) What is the relationship between theory and observation?
Answer: Theories and observations have a mutual and dynamic interaction.A newly born theory is built on tentative observations.Scientists can test hypotheses spawned by that theory, leading to new observations.As more observations become available, the theory can grow to include a greater number of hypotheses, and, in turn, scientists can test these hypotheses and provide additional observations.
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Chapter 2: Freud: Psychoanalysis
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Q1) The most basic Freudian defense mechanism is A)repression.
B)reaction formation.
C)fixation.
D)projection.
E)regression.
Answer: A
Q2) According to Freud, the genital period
A)ends with the development of the superego.
B)is a result of penis envy.
C)begins at puberty.
D)is marked by an autoerotic sexual aim.
E)begins immediately after the anal stage.
Answer: C
Q3) The use of Freudian defense mechanisms requires an A)expenditure of psychic energy.
B)extremely strong superego.
C)immediate return to primary narcissism.
D)exposure of the superego to prolonged anxiety.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Adler: Individual Psychology
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Q1) Adler's concern for the whole person led to his A)developing treatments for cancer.
B)studying psychiatry.
C)becoming a rabbi.
D)advocating revolution.
Answer: B
Q2) According to Adler, two commonly used safeguarding tendencies are excuses and aggression.A third is A)regression.
B)fixation.
C)social interest.
D)withdrawal.
E)early recollections.
Answer: D
Q3) The death of Adler's younger brother resulted in Adler
A)withdrawing from other family members.
B)developing a severe childhood neurosis.
C)deciding to become a doctor.
D)turning to his older brother for protection.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Jung: Analytical Psychology
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Q1) Jung came from
A)a large, close-knit family.
B)parents who disagreed.
C)a French farm family.
D)a single-parent family.
Q2) Jung called contents of the personal unconscious A)fantasies.
B)archetypes.
C)instincts.
D)complexes.
E)None of these is correct.
Q3) In Jungian psychology, a person primarily concerned with external matters such as financial success, competition, and material possessions would be A)introverted.
B)extraverted.
C)dominated by his or her persona.
D)self-realized.
E)neurotic.
Q4) List and briefly describe Jung's most important archetypes.
Q5) Discuss Jung's notion of extraversion and introversion.
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Chapter 5: Klein: Object Relations Theory
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Q1) Discuss Klein's concept of the paranoid-schizoid position.
Q2) Klein believed that the male Oedipus complex is resolved mostly when the boy
A)identifies with his father and adopts a feminine position with his mother.
B)identifies with his mother and adopts a feminine position with his father.
C)adopts a masculine position toward both parents.
D)establishes positive relationships toward both parents.
Q3) Klein called the fantasy that one's own feelings actually reside in another person A)projection.
B)introjection.
C)splitting.
D)rejection.
E)introjective identification.
Q4) Klein believed that before a unified ego can emerge, it must first A)assimilate the id.
B)learn syntaxic language.
C)split into the "good me" and the "bad me."
D)attain control over the repressive superego.
Q5) List and discuss Klein's psychic defense mechanisms.
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Chapter 6: Horney: Psychoanalytic Social Theory
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Q1) Parker is constantly belittling his own accomplishments.He also dreads asking others for favors.These behaviors illustrate Horney's neurotic need
A)for affection and approval.
B)for a romantic and life partner.
C)to restrict one's life within narrow borders.
D)to attain self-sufficiency and independence.
Q2) Tami is proud of her intellectual skills and abilities, and she is pleased when others notice and admire her superior intelligence.These characteristics reflect Horney's neurotic need for
A)power.
B)affection and approval.
C)independence.
D)prestige.
E)personal admiration.
Q3) In Horney's view, neurotics
A)use the real self as the standard for self-evaluation.
B)use the idealized self as the standard for self-evaluation.
C)move toward the goal of actualizing the real self.
D)are unable even to form the concept of the idealized self.
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Chapter 7: Erikson: Post-Freudian Theory
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Q1) Discuss Fromm's basic assumptions about personality and include his three existential dichotomies.
Q2) Fromm's syndrome of decay consists of all the following EXCEPT
A)malignant aggression.
B)malignant narcissism.
C)necrophilia.
D)incestuous symbiosis.
Q3) For Fromm, basic anxiety is a feeling of A)malignant aggression.
B)being alone in the world.
C)being judged by others.
D)being unable to achieve one's goals.
Q4) As a scientific theory, Erich Fromm's humanistic psychoanalysis rates A)high on falsifiability.
B)low as a generator of empirical research.
C)high as a guide to parents and teachers.
D)high in parsimony.
Q5) Discuss Fromm's five human, or existential, needs.
Q6) List and discuss Fromm's nonproductive and productive character orientations.
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Chapter 8: Fromm: Humanistic Psychoanalysis
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Q1) A Sullivanian dynamism that tends to evoke loving reactions from others and that decreases loneliness is
A)intimacy.
B)tenderness.
C)lust.
D)malevolence.
E)dissociation.
Q2) Sullivan believed that awe, horror, loathing, or a "chilly crawling" sensation are manifestations of A)uncanny emotion.
B)lust.
C)malevolence.
D)loneliness.
Q3) Which Sullivanian needs must be satisfied for the general well-being of the organism?
A)survival
B)dynamic
C)interpersonal
D)general
E)zonal
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Chapter 9: Maslow: Holistic-Dynamic Theory
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Q1) Erikson claimed that procreativity encompasses A)caring for one's offspring.
B)productive work.
C)perpetuation of society.
D)All of these are correct.
Q2) The "informed and detached concern with life itself in the face of death itself" is how Erikson defined A)mistrust.
B)detachment.
C)wisdom.
D)despair.
E)isolation.
Q3) Erikson's core pathology of old age is A)disdain. B)rejection.
C)rage. D)impotence.
Q4) Discuss Erikson's basic assumptions that underlie his theory of developmental stages.
Q5) List the key concepts in Erikson's infancy stage.
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Chapter 10: Rogers: Person-Centered Theory
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Q1) Maslow hypothesized that
A)the order of needs may be reversed in certain cases.
B)love and belongingness needs must be satisfied more fully than physiological needs.
C)the satisfaction of neurotic needs leads to psychological health.
D)people must satisfy one need completely before any other need can become a motivator.
E)cognitive needs must be satisfied before conative needs become motivators.
Q2) According to Maslow, ______ behavior is usually unlearned, spontaneous, and determined by forces within the person rather than by the environment.
A)expressive
B)neurotic
C)coping
D)actualizing
E)Taoistic
Q3) Maslow criticized both psychoanalysis and behaviorism for their
A)overemphasis on unconscious motivation.
B)inability to successfully treat neurosis.
C)unscientific viewpoints on personality
D)limited view of humanity.
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Chapter 11: May: Existential Psychology
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Q1) Rogers believed that healthy individuals evaluate their experience from the viewpoint of
A)their ideal self.
B)their organismic self.
C)their significant others.
D)their self-concept.
E)their society.
Q2) To Rogers, the basic ingredient of maladjustment is
A)sexual experiences that have been repressed.
B)discrepancy of organismic vs.perceived self.
C)a low expectation of success by the individual.
D)an approach-avoidance conflict in the individual.
E)insecurity in the individual.
Q3) What stage of Rogers's therapeutic process is characterized by avoidance of present feelings and a discussion limited to past or future emotions?
A)1st
B)2nd
C)3rd
D)6th
E)7th
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Chapter 12: Allport: Psychology of the Individual
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Q1) According to May, people's being-in-the-world is characterized by A)Umwelt.
B)Mitwelt.
C)Eigenwelt.
D)All the above are correct.
Q2) Define and explain being-in-the-world and nonbeing
Q3) For May, freedom of being is synonymous with
A)existential freedom.
B)essential freedom.
C)freedom of action.
D)freedom from destiny.
E)intentional freedom.
Q4) Basically, existentialists believe that theories
A)are essential for understanding people.
B)render individuals into objects.
C)increase the authenticity of the individual's experience.
D)All the above are correct.
Q5) List and define the four forms of love, as seen by Rollo May.
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Chapter 13: Mccrae and Costas Five Factor Trait Theory
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Q1) Research indicates that people who score high on the Intrinsic scale of the Religious Orientation Scale (and thus are more involved in their religion) tend to
A)have extreme anxiety.
B)be extremely prejudiced.
C)be emotionally healthy.
D)All of these are correct.
E)None of these is correct.
Q2) Allport's principal concern in personality theory was with A)factor analysis.
B)the uniqueness of the individual.
C)the heritability of personality traits.
D)early childhood experiences.
E)unconscious motivation.
Q3) Allport's definition of personality included the notion of personality as A)both dynamic and organized.
B)exclusively physiological.
C)determined in early childhood.
D)divided into two major types: introverts and extraverts.
E)All of these are correct.
Q4) Discuss Allport's concept of the psychologically healthy personality.
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Chapter 14: Eysencks Biologically Based Factor Theory
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Q1) Cattell classified traits that refer to how far or how fast one can perform a given activity as ____________ traits.
A)temperament
B)motivational
C)dynamic
D)ability
Q2) "A theory organizes findings to tell a coherent story, to bring into focus those issues and phenomena that can and should be explained." This quote can be attributed to A)Eysenck.
B)Cattell.
C)Allport.
D)Costa and McCrae.
Q3) Eysenck believed that the primary difference between extraverts and introverts is one of
A)mother-infant relationships.
B)objectivity/subjectivity.
C)neuroticism/stability.
D)cortical arousal level.
E)gender.
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Chapter 15: Buss: Evolutionary Theory of Personality
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Q1) Skinner accepted the concept of unconscious
A)mental processes.
B)cognition.
C)conflicts.
D)behavior.
E)motivation.
Q2) To Skinner, human personality is shaped by
A)contingencies of reinforcement.
B)natural selection.
C)both of these.
D)neither of these.
Q3) The label that best fits Skinner's work is
A)social learning theory.
B)humanistic theory.
C)radical behaviorism.
D)interpersonal theory.
Q4) Discuss Skinner's philosophy of science as it applies to the study of human behavior.
Q5) Distinguish negative reinforcement from both positive reinforcement and punishment.
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Chapter 16: Skinner: Behavioral Analysis
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Q1) A government official who sanctions spying on and brutal physical harassment of legitimate, nonviolent demonstrators because "they are a threat to national security" is using Bandura's disengagement technique of A)moral justification.
B)palliative comparison.
C)rationalization.
D)personal attribution.
Q2) Discuss specific ways in which Bandura's social cognitive theory differs from Skinner's behavioral analysis.
Q3) Bandura holds that reinforcement is
A)cognitively mediated.
B)automatic.
C)a function of the environment.
D)a function of the individual's history.
E)an unnecessary concept for learning theory.
Q4) In Bandura's view, self-efficacy is most likely to be increased when A)failure strengthens one's determination to succeed on future projects.
B)one successfully performs a difficult task.
C)one's best efforts fall a little short of success.
D)one observes others failing at a task.
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Chapter 17: Bandura: Social Cognitive Theory
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Q1) Rotter insisted that an adequate theory of personality must take into consideration the assumption that people
A)are capable of anticipating events.
B)are motivated primarily by drive reduction.
C)are controlled in the same manner as animals.
D)are only motivated by unconscious mental processes.
Q2) According to Rotter, overall expectancy of success in any given situation depends on a person's
A)generalized expectancy.
B)needs.
C)both of these.
D)neither of these.
Q3) Rotter stated that when expectancies and situational variables are held constant, behavior is shaped by
A)reinforcement value.
B)freedom of movement.
C)the specific expectancies.
D)all of these.
Q4) List and briefly explain Mischel and Shoda's five cognitive-affective units.
Q5) Explain Rotter's concepts of internal and external control of reinforcement.
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Chapter 18: Rotter and Mischel: Cognitive Social Learning Theory
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Q1) People arrange their constructs to avoid conflicts and transcend contradictions.This illustrates Kelly's ______ corollary.
A)dichotomy
B)construction
C)choice
D)individuality
E)organization
Q2) With Kelly's fixed-role therapy,
A)the client and therapist work out a predetermined role for the client to play.
B)the construction systems of other people are anticipated.
C)neither of these occurs.
D)both of these occur.
Q3) Kelly's organization corollary assumes which type of relationship among constructs?
A)ordinal
B)nominal
C)ratio
D)proportional
E)interval
Q4) Define Kelly's concept of role, including core role.
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