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Social Psychology explores how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts, examining the influence of others on attitudes, perception, decision-making, and identity. The course covers key concepts such as conformity, persuasion, prejudice, group dynamics, social cognition, and interpersonal relationships. Students will analyze how social environments shape human behavior and learn about foundational studies, theories, and research methods in the field. Through real-world examples and interactive activities, this course aims to enhance understanding of the psychological processes driving social interaction and the implications for everyday life.
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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) The personality paradigm that focuses on rewards and punishments is known as the ________ paradigm.
A) trait
B) behaviorist
C) phenomenological
D) psychoanalytic
Answer: B
Q3) What two topics are covered under the phenomenological approach?
A) humanistic and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
B) humanistic and social-learning perspectives on personality
C) cross-cultural and cognitive perspectives on personality
D) trait and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Clues to Personality: the Basic Sources of Data
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Q1) Different informants may not agree about the personality of a common target individual because ________.
A) each judge may see the target person in only a limited number of social contexts
B) judges may form a mistaken impression based on the recollection of a single, uncharacteristic behavior
C) some informants may have biases that affect the accuracy of their judgments
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) In order to examine the relationship between early life experiences and adult criminality, Dr. Robbins asks his research participants to fill out questionnaires describing their early life. He then obtains copies of their arrest records from the county courthouse. The questionnaires used in Dr. Robbins's study would be ________ data, whereas the arrest records would be ________ data.
A) L; B
B) S; I
C) S; L
D) B; L
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Personality Psychology As Science: Research
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Q1) Psychometricians assume that construct of intelligence is demonstrated through responses to an IQ test.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Linda is taking an intelligence test. During the test, the teachers walk through the halls and chat loudly with each other. Due to these distractions, Linda scores lower on the test than she would have if she had been able to concentrate fully. The influence of the teachers' chatting is an example of ________.
A) reliability
B) a validity bias
C) a cohort effect
D) measurement error
Answer: D
Q3) Researchers usually agree about the interpretation of a result.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior
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Q1) 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
Q2) Individuals high in the trait of extraversion tend to die younger than individuals who are lower in extraversion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe why the Funder and Ozer (1983) calculation of effect sizes from famous experiments in social psychology is important for undermining the situationist argument. How does Funder believe that these results should be interpreted?
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Chapter 5: Personality Assessment I: Personality Testing
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Q1) When evaluated as psychometric instruments, most projective tests ________.
A) do not fare very well
B) have validity but little reliability
C) have generalizability but little validity
D) do as well as objective tests like the CPI and MMPI
Q2) A test created using the empirical method yields what kind of data?
A) B
B) I
C) L
D) S
Q3) Integrity tests administered in employment screening provide good measures of ________.
A) conscientiousness
B) intelligence
C) drug use on the job
D) sociability
Q4) The consensus among trait researchers is that three broad traits are truly essential.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Personality Assessment Ii: Personality Judgment
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Q1) It appears that there are gender differences in the attributes that make someone a good judge of personality.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the boundary on the acquaintanceship effect identified by Colvin and Funder (1991)?
A) The advantage of close acquaintances vanishes when the criterion is the ability to predict behavior in a situation similar to one that strangers have seen but acquaintances have not.
B) Judgments made by acquaintances who have known the target for 5 years are as valid as judgments made by parents and acquaintances who have known the target for 20 years.
C) Strangers' judgments are more accurate than acquaintances' judgments when the criterion is self-other agreement.
D) Strangers' judgments, based on a five-minute videotape of the target's behavior, demonstrated these judges' ability to generalize to situations and contexts that were very different from the videotaped interactions.
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Chapter 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior
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Q1) What are essential traits according to Jack Block?
A) neuroticism/extraversion
B) negative emotionality/positive emotionality
C) stability/plasticity
D) ego control/ego resiliency
Q2) A researcher interested in identifying common patterns of trait variation that characterize whole persons is using a ________ approach.
A) single-trait
B) typological
C) configural
D) many-trait
Q3) Ego control was related to increased delay of gratification in boys but not in girls.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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
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Chapter 8: The Anatomy and Physiology of Personality
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Q1) What is the best description of the role that testosterone plays in personality?
A) It acts as a direct cause of frustration.
B) It acts as an energizing factor that accentuates existing behavioral tendencies.
C) It acts as a dampening factor that reduces existing behavioral tendencies.
D) It seems to directly influence levels of agreeableness in men but not in women.
Q2) Describe the evolution of psychosurgery. What important principles about the brain are illustrated by the limited successes of psychosurgeries?
Q3) Some researchers argue that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) might be better classified as antineurotics rather than antidepressants.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Nerve fibers that organize and regulate transmissions between nerves are called
A) afferent nerves
B) efferent nerves
C) interneurons
D) extraneurons
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Chapter 9: The Inheritance of Personality: Behavioral
Genetics and Evolutionary Theory
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Q1) The amount of time one spends watching television is genetically influenced. A)True
B)False
Q2) What behavioral genetic research finding seems to support the conclusion that the effect of growing up in the same home environment is rather minimal?
A) The personality traits of monozygotic (MZ) twins are correlated at .50 on average.
B) The personality traits of dizygotic (DZ) twins are correlated at .30 on average.
C) The personality traits of adoptive siblings raised in the same family are correlated around .05.
D) The personality traits of adoptive siblings raised in the same family are correlated above .25.
Q3) What might be the evolutionary function of crying, according to recent research described in the text?
A) a way to elicit social support
B) an aversive motivator of behavioral change toward more adaptive pursuits
C) an index of social acceptance
D) a way of preventing wasteful energy expenditures on lost causes
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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) During therapy, Bob feels the same hostility toward his therapist that he feels toward his father. What term describes Bob's experience?
A) countertransference
B) displacement
C) regression
D) transference
Q3) The assumption that everything a person does has a specific cause is called
A) psychological determination
B) mental causality
C) psychic determinism
D) libidinal functionalism
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Chapter 11: The Workings of the Unconscious Mind:
Defenses and Slips
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Q1) Tim is angry with his mother, but instead of directing his aggression toward her, he kicks his small dog Rocky. This is an example of ________.
A) rationalization
B) intellectualization
C) reaction formation
D) displacement
Q2) The superego uses defense mechanisms to keep impulses at bay.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ego psychologists believe that the most important function of the ego is compromise formation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Forbidden impulses expressed as jokes are effective at dodging the ego and superego because they ________ the forbidden impulse.
A) reduce
B) disguise
C) project
D) displace
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Chapter 12: Psychoanalysis After Freud: Neo-Freudians,
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Q1) Many neo-Freudians preserve Freud's spirit in their writings but reinterpret his original ideas.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Jung's distinction between people who are oriented outwardly toward the world and those who are turned in on themselves corresponds to ________.
A) Erikson's stage of intimacy vs. isolation
B) Freud's ideas of the oral and anal character types
C) Jung's own concept of animus and anima
D) the extraversion-introversion dimension of the Big Five
Q3) In order for a person to develop an inferiority complex, he or she must ________.
A) actually have some disability that makes him or her inferior to others
B) perceive himself or herself as inferior to others
C) have parents who pushed him or her to be perfect
D) have a particularly strong superego
Q4) Erikson was a strong believer that intimacy came before identity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life:
Humanistic and Positive Psychology
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Q1) Csikszentmihalyi's concept of flow is analogous to ________.
A) self-actualization
B) an authentic existence
C) an optimal experience
D) existential optimism
Q2) To avoid developing conditions of worth, a person should experience ________ from the important people in his or her life.
A) unconditional positive regard
B) Mitwelt
C) conditions of worth
D) existential optimism
Q3) What does it mean to take a phenomenological perspective on personality? Explain the basic idea of phenomenology and describe the philosophical roots of this approach.
Q4) Research indicates that financial status is more strongly linked with life satisfaction in richer nations as opposed to poorer nations.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
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Q1) Studies of endogenous personality descriptors in China and Spain seem to suggest that there are ________ factors in each lexicon.
A) three
B) five
C) six
D) seven
Q2) David McClelland would argue that a culture that emphasizes children's stories such as "The Little Engine That Could" has a high need for________.
A) achievement
B) affiliation
C) appraisal
D) affluence
Q3) If members of two cultures experience the same emotions, seek the same goals, and organize their thoughts in comparable ways, then the two cultures ________.
A) are individualistic cultures
B) have collectivist construals
C) have similar experience-near constructs
D) view the world through culture-free lenses
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Chapter 15: Learning to Be a Person: Behaviorism and Social Learning Theories
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Q1) E. L. Thorndike proposed that people learn to do things faster and more efficiently when the effects of the behavior are negative.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a major achievement of the learning approaches to personality?
A) These approaches pushed psychology in the direction of an objective science.
B) These approaches enhanced our understanding of how the environment affects behavior.
C) These approaches helped further the understanding of the importance of early interactions with caregivers.
D) These approaches led to the development of useful procedures for changing behavior, at least in the short term.
Q3) Behaviorists believe that personality differences can be entirely explained by ________.
A) learning
B) behavioral traits
C) phenomenological processes
D) IQ
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Chapter 16: Personality Processes: Perception, Thought,
Motivation, and Emotion
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Q1) According to a recent study of blogs, the expression of happiness seems to peak in the life span between the ages of ________.
A) 14 and 18
B) 50 and 60
C) 18 and 25
D) 70 and 80
Q2) Define the concept of priming and describe how this idea can explain certain aspects of personality.
Q3) Which theorist developed the concept of personal constructs?
A) Gordon Allport
B) B. F. Skinner
C) George Kelly
D) Walter Mischel
Q4) Some research suggests that pessimism might prove more adaptive than optimism in ________.
A) individualistic cultures
B) collectivistic cultures
C) handling the diagnosis of a chronic disease
D) handing the diagnosis of a terminal disease
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Q1) When people think about their own behavior, they tend to believe that their ________.
A) behavior arises from who they are
B) behavior is the logical response to the situation
C) behavior arises from a chronic pattern of activities
D) "positive" behaviors are always a result of the situation
Q2) Individuals from ________ are least likely to use trait terms.
A) Germany
B) New Zealand
C) India
D) Canada
Q3) Describe how the realistic accuracy model can be applied to self-knowledge. How does this model explain why accurate self-knowledge can be difficult to achieve?
Q4) Knowing how to ride a bike is an example of declarative knowledge.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to the text, accurate self-knowledge is a hallmark of mental health. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Disorders of Personality
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Q1) 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?
Q2) Personality attributes that make someone a devoted and faithful romantic partner can be taken to the extreme. What personality disorder is most relevant to this extreme case?
A) paranoid
B) borderline
C) obsessive-compulsive
D) dependent
Q3) Identify and describe the five general characteristics of personality disorders. Why are there controversies surrounding the definition of personality disorders?
Q4) The hallmark of borderline personality disorder is ________.
A) grandiose self-evaluations
B) acute discomfort in social situations
C) a pervasive disregard for the feelings of others
D) emotional instability
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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) Which of the following is NOT one of the criteria that Funder believes is important for selecting a personality approach to use in your own work?
A) whether the approach is right or wrong
B) whether the approach addresses topics you wish to understand
C) whether you find the approach interesting
D) whether you think you can use the approach to add knowledge to psychology
Q3) 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.
Q4) Funder identifies most strongly with the psychoanalytic approach to personality.
A)True
B)False
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