Psychology Notes Test 4

Question 1

Stereotyped Leader

Answer 1

Upright, straight, military bearing

Question 2

Stereotyped Scholar

Answer 2

Stooped or poor posture

Question 3

Relative Rating Scale

Answer 3

Everyone is rated according to the other people being rated

Question 4

Absolute Rating Scale

Answer 4

Everyone is assigned scores independent of everyone else

Question 5

Interview Errors

Answer 5

Halo Effect (based on traits or personality)
Stereotypes
Faulty Memory

Question 6

Item Analytic Approach

Answer 6

Determines which items are answered differently by most members of 2 groups
Helps weigh items in scoring

Question 7

Minnesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Answer 7

567 statements over 14 areas
True/False for themselves (physical, moral, and social)
Summarized on scale (Question, Lie Score, F Score, K Score)

Question 8

F Score

Answer 8

Validity is general use

Question 9

K Score

Answer 9

Measure of taking attitude in ten scales

Question 10

MMPI Scoring

Answer 10

> 70 or

Question 11

Philosophical Approach

Answer 11

Nature of mankind is revealed by his history, literature, and other cultural factors

Question 12

OSS Construction Test

Answer 12

Calm/resourceful under stress

Complete construction project with one person sabotaging the project

Question 13

Leadership Group Discussion

Answer 13

4-5 or 4-12 people
Unstructured with no rules
Test to see who assumes leadership

Question 14

Science Research Associates (SRAs)

Answer 14

300 items
Revised for grades 7-12 in 1956
How seriously they feel about a problem

Question 15

Bell Adjustment Inventory

Answer 15

Adult and college/high school
Home, health, social
Adult adds vocational adjustment

Question 16

Mooney Problem Checklist

Answer 16

Mooney and Gordon
140 yes/no items
Not used a lot

Question 17

Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey

Answer 17

300 items using 10 of 13 traits
Yes/no questions
3 scoring methods used
Normal people, not for clinical/counseling means

Question 18

Allport Study of Values

Answer 18

1960
Measures relative importance of 6 basic motives
Religious, theoretical, aesthetic, social, political, and economic

Question 19

Phrenology

Answer 19

Belief that personality consists of facilities in the brain and evidenced by bumps on the skull

Question 20

Physiognomy

Answer 20

Judging a person’s personality by facial characteristics

Question 21

Graphology

Answer 21

The study of a person’s handwriting

Question 22

Faulty Memory

Answer 22

The inability to recall accurately on the part of the interviewee can cause a serious weakness in the interview

Question 23

Unstructured

Answer 23

Interviewer is free to develop the conversation with no set plan
Desirable in clinical situations

Question 24

Structured

Answer 24

Interview follows a predetermined plan of questioning

Thorough training can reduce error in judging personality

Question 25

Projective Device

Answer 25

Tap into deepest levels of fear and needs

No right or wrong answers

Question 26

Rorschach Inkblot

Answer 26

Responses are usually scored in five general categories (location, determinates, content, popularity, and form level)

Question 27

Evaluation

Answer 27

Requires two or three operations:
Performance proper
Inquirty
Testing the limits (only used if not enough detail for 1 and 2)

Question 28

Thematic Apperception Test

Answer 28

Morgan and Murray in 1935
Composed of three series of 10 pictures
Studies show that persons who tend to be sad tell TAT stories differently than others

Question 29

Make a Picture Story Test

Answer 29

Used for adults and kids

Presents subjects with a tiny stage and characters and asked to depict a story

Question 30

Kahn Test of Symbol Arrangement

Answer 30

Projection of personal needs into culturally structured symbols

Question 31

Centile Scores

Answer 31

Points which divide a distribution of measurement into 100 equal parts

Question 32

Introverts are usually…

Answer 32

Schizophrenics

Question 33

Extroverts are usually…

Answer 33

Manic-Depressive

Question 34

Superego

Answer 34

Storehouse of morals and standards

Question 35

Freud called the Ego…

Answer 35

“Self”

Question 36

Carl Young

Answer 36

Used introvert and extrovert
Tests designed for adults and verbal in nature
Said introverts tend to be depressed

Question 37

Kretschmer

Answer 37

Physique-character description

Pyknic, Athletic, and Asthenic

Question 38

Pyknic

Answer 38

Chubby and extroverted

Question 39

Athletic

Answer 39

Agressive and energetic

Question 40

Asthenic/Leptosome

Answer 40

Thin and introverted

Question 41

Sheldon Somatotype Theory

Answer 41

Physique-temperament description

Endomorphy, Mesomorphy, and Ectomorphy

Question 42

Endomorphy

Answer 42

Heavyset
Viscerotonia
Like to eat

Question 43

Mesomorphy

Answer 43

Muscular
Somatotonia
Outgoing

Question 44

Ectomorphy

Answer 44

Thin
Cerebrotonia
Shy

Question 45

2 Months

Answer 45

Baby differentiates between humans and nonhumans

Question 46

3-4 Months

Answer 46

Child differentiates between a scowl and smile

Question 47

1 Year

Answer 47

Child imitates the things they see

Question 48

Ego

Answer 48

Self-awareness, meets demands

Question 49

Superego

Answer 49

Morals and values

Question 50

Id

Answer 50

Unconscious primitive urges

Question 51

Libido

Answer 51

Sexual force

Question 52

Robert Hare

Answer 52

Studied psychopaths and classified their behavior

Question 53

Conduct Disorder

Answer 53

Childish, mean, no remorse

Question 54

Psychopath

Answer 54

At least 18 years old, risk takers

Question 55

Serial Killers

Answer 55

Start fires, wet the bed, kill animals

Question 56

Cleckley

Answer 56

Said psychopaths have no guilt, no conscience, no remorse

Impulsive, self-centered, can’t postpone gratification