Exam 1 Flashcards
Personality is an individual’s characteristic patterns of ________.
d. all of the above
Personality psychologists who adhere to the ________ approach focus on identifying, conceptualizing, and measuring the ways in which people differ psychologically from one another.
b. trait
________ theories of personality apply the insights and methods derived from the study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of personality.
c. Cognitive
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
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.
c. S
________ data are the most frequently used basis for personality assessment.
c. S
A major advantage of S data is that ________.
c. you are the world’s best expert about your own personality
A personality description of a client by his or her therapist is an example of ________ data.
c. I
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of I data?
d. They come from carefully controlled experimental situations.
The judgments that others make of your personality affect your opportunities and expectancies. Thus, these judgments have ________.
c. causal force
The fact that behavior is frequently determined by multiple causes presents the most significant disadvantage for ________ data.
a. B
Which age group is likely to have the greatest amount of stability in their personality traits?
d. adults between age 50 and 70.
Someone who is ____________ is likely to express their personality consistently from one situation to the next.
a. low in self-monitoring
Attractiveness is associated with what trait?
c. extraversion
The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) was designed to ________.
b. assess normal individuals
The MMPI was designed to ________.
a. assess individuals with psychological disorders
A psychologist administering the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) asks respondents to ________.
c. tell stories about pictures that the psychologist shows them
According to the text, one of the non-psychometric functions of projective tests is to ________.
c. break the ice between client and therapist
Which of the following is an objective personality test?
a. MMPI
The approach to personality test construction that examines a set of correlations among many items in order to identify which items are highly correlated is called the ________ approach.
d. factor analytic
Imagine that you want to develop a test to measure depression. You gather a set of 100 potential test items and ask a sample of people diagnosed with clinical depression and a sample of nondepressed people to respond to the items. For your final version of the test, you decide to keep only the 15 items that the depressed and nondepressed groups answered differently. You are using a(n) ________ method of test construction.
d. empirical
Integrity tests administered in employment screening provide good measures of ________.
a. conscientiousness
A researcher who starts with an interest in delinquency and then identifies the traits associated with that category of behavior is taking a ________ approach.
b. many- trait
A researcher who tries to discover the most important or basic personality traits that exist is taking a ________ approach.
c. essential- trait
