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| In order to improve personality research, researcher can_____? |
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| Integrity tests are purposely designed to place liars in difficult dilemmas when they respond to the questions. True or False? |
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| Most people do not enjoy responding to the commonality items on the CPI because they view those items as invading thier privacy. true or false? |
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| A fundamental problem for the trait approach is that? |
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| A test created using the empirical method yields what kind of data? |
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| Mood researcher are less concerned with validity that all trait researchers. True or False? |
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| Peronality psychologists adhering to the ______ approach focus on psychic energy, the working of the unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal mental conflict. |
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| A correlation coefficient is a(n) _______ that ranges between _______. |
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| The principle of aggregation holds that random errors often become magnified when averaged together. True or False? |
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| According to research that shows a link between a trait's observability and the accuracy with which it is judged, which of the following traits would be easiest to judge accurately? |
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| The only difference between the experimental and correlational methods is that in the experimental method the presumed causal variable is ______, whereas in the correlational method the same variable is _____. |
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| ______ data are fairly easily verifiable, concrete, real-life outcomes of possible psychological signifance. |
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| The terms expectancy effect and behavioral confirmation refer to the same psychological penomenon. true or false? |
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| Women seems to have a difficult time judging the sociosexuality of men. True or false? |
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| Imagine that you could draw a straight horizontal line through the points on a scatter plot depiciting the relation between X and Y. Which of the following is the closet value to the correlation coefficient that you would compute from these data? |
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| How should you act in everyday life according to the "transparent self" theory of psychological health? |
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| Conceal very little from those around you |
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| At the heart of aggregation is the idea that: |
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| random errors cancel each other out. |
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| What is the best descirption of the acquaintanceship effect? |
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| The more information you have about someone, the more accurate your judgment of his or her personality. |
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| Your responses to the personality test item "I am an intelligent person" would be _____ data, whereas your score on an intelligence test that reflects the number of problems you got right would be ______ data. |
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The reason that objectives tests include so many items is to increase the _____ of the test.
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| According to the text, what is the last step in factor analysis? |
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| Which of the following was NOT a study that Funder and Ozer reviewed in their work calculating the size of the situation coefficient? |
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| the reduction in intrinsic motivation that occurs when children are given rewards |
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| What are the two primary criteria for evaluating personality judgments? |
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| interjudge agreement and behavioral prediction |
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| The p-value tells researchers the probability that a finding will be exactly duplicated. True or false? |
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| It is possible to directly calculate correlation effect sizes from experimental social psychology. True or false? |
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| Although Funder draws a disctinction between S and B data, the distinction between tests is more common in the literature |
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| Julie does not like to go to parties because she is shy and convinced that people will not like her. When julie does to a party, she avoids eye contact, gives abrupt responses to other people's questions, and quickly withdraws from interactions. As a result, she spends most of the evening in a corner by herself, convinced that no one at the party likes her. This is an example of: |
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| Jane recently completed a new test that was designed to measure her IQ. She took the test twice and each time recieved the same score. The test adminsistrator told her that her scores indicate that she is extremley intelligent. However, Jane scored well below average when completed the Standford-Binet and the WAIS (two well-established intellgence tests). Based on the pattern of results, it appears that the new measure of IQ was a: |
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| reliable but not valid measure of intelligence |
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| What does recent research suggest about the validity of first impressions? |
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| First impressions based on configural properties of faces may have some validity. |
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| Personality is an individual's characteristic patterns of |
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| behavior, emotion an thought (all of the above) |
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| The observation "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is probably a duck," illustrates the method of: |
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| Research regarding the person-situation debate indicated that _____ are relevant to how people will act under specidic circumstances and that ______are better for describing how people act in general. |
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| situational variables; personality traits |
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| The uniqure mandate of personality psychologists is to attempt: |
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| to explain whole, functioning personons in their social context |
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| The Funder and Ozer reader contains a chapter from Walter Mischel's book, "Personality and Assessment". In this chapter, Mischel argues that: |
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| inconsistency in behavior is the rule rather than the exception |
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| The finding that more observable traits yield better interjudge agreement suggests that peer judgment is based more on____ than on______. |
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| direct behavioral observation; a manufactured reputation |
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| As described in the test, according to some researchers, the TAT measures ______, whereas questionnaire-based measures predict_______. |
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| what people need; what people want |
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| If test scores go down as anxiety goes up, then: |
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| test scores and anxiety are negatively correlated |
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| Personality judgment can occur in applied setting without the use of objective tests. True or False? |
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| In the Funder and Ozer reader, Kenrick and Funder conclude that |
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| the controversiy and debate sparked by Mischel's book ultimately benefited the field of personality psychology. |
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| Which of the following would be an example of using a moderator variable approach to improve the predictability of behavior from personality? |
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| determining if the behavior of high self-monitors is less consistent that that of low self-monitors |
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| Situationists are often concerned with precisely calculating how much situations affect behavior. True or False? |
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| One kind of improvement to personality research offered in response to the situationist critique suggests identifying those individuals whose behavior is more consistent that other's behavior. This research improvement involves: |
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| using moderator variable approach. |
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| The EAR (Electronically Activated Recorder) collects video data from particpants. True or False? |
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| Walter Mischel and his 1968 book Personality and Assesment are noteworthy because Mischel: |
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| is credited with starting the person-situation debate by claiming that personality is not as important as situational factors in behavioral prediction |
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| Psychometricians assume that construct of intelligence is demonstrated through responses to an IQ test. True or false? |
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| Which of the following is good practice for interpreting correlations? |
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| Finding a method that demonstrates the size of the correlation in a concrete maner |
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| When a researcher examines the association between behaviors at a party on Friday night and how many times someone volunteers to answer questions in class on Monday, she is looking at the association between _____ and _______. |
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| Accuracy in personality judgment fails only when there are breakdowns in at least two of the stages in the Realistic Accuracy Model. True or False? |
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| Linda is taking an intelligence test in a classroom on Thursday afternoon. During the test, the teachers walk through the halls and chat loudly with each other. Due to these distractions, Linfa scores lower on the test than she would have if she had been able to concentrate fully. The infulence of the teachers' chatting is an example of: |
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| Mischel originally argued that personality coefficients seldom exceed_____, whereas subsequent situationists raised that estimate to _______. |
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