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| standardized, objective, reliable, valid, efficient |
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a reliable test will be consistent |
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a valid test will be accurate |
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| which of the following is not a type of validity? |
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| why is it necessary to control access to and use of psychological test? to prevent ____ and assure standard ____. |
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| when comparing intelligence scores that are normally distributed with scores from another intellligence that are also normally distributed which of the following meaures would most likely be used? |
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| intelligence is what an intelligence test measures is ____ definition of intelligence |
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| the purpose behind the development of the first intelligence test was to? |
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| detect those children who would not do well in school |
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| suppose you were helping binet construct his test and you found the following percentages for children passing a test item: age3= 48%, age4=63%, age5=71%, age6=98%. at which age level would you most likely place this item? |
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| if johny is 8 years old and the standard-binet shows his MA=6, what is Johny's IQ? |
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| binet and simon assumed that intelligence is a complex ___ consisting of different ___ and develops as the ____ develops |
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| enitity, abilities,individual |
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an MA=6 indicate more knowledge than an MA=5 |
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an IQ=110 indicates more knowledge than an MA=5 |
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| one major advantage that all of the Wechsler scale have over the Stanford-Binet Test is that they? |
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| provide a test of performance skills |
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| IQ's for the Wechsler Scales are? |
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| based on a normative table |
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| The Chitling Test is an example of an? |
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| which of the following is the iq score of an average person |
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longitudinal studies show iq drops with age? |
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cross-sectional studies show iq does not drop with age |
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| one of the major criticisms of jensen's position that genetically, blacks have lower iq's than whites is iq test are frequently standardized in terms of the ___ ____ |
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the correct anwer on a personality test us the one most normal people give |
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psychologists look for patterns and themes when interpreting personality tests |
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| one of the problems subjects have in answering questions for a personality test is? |
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| should i tell the truth? should i answer as i am now or as i usually am? what is the correct answer? |
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| the validity scales on the MMPI-2 indicate whether the individual is? |
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| which of the following is least true about projective tests? the test has standardized ____ and ____. |
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| which of the following tests is the most structured for the test taker |
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| the ___ is least likely to be a major source of error in interviews? |
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| interviewers theoretical background |
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| two qualities of personality which most theorists agree exist are? |
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| consistency and uniqueness |
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| which of the following is not in a typical definition of personality |
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| nomothetic theories involve __ traits and ___ persons |
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our knowledge about personality is based on our findings in empirical research |
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| our knowledge of personality is used in research, diagnosis, and therapy |
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| which of the following is not usually a conern of personality theorists? |
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| ____ personality theory emphasizes growth and achievement? |
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| ___ least emphasizes traits or dispositions as its basis for personality |
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| freud's psychoanalytic theory |
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| if u were freud which of the following statements would you not agree with? ____ is an objective, quantifiable entity. |
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| according to freud where does ur psychic energy come from? |
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| in terms of freudian psychosexual development a heavy smoker may be |
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| fixated at the oral stage |
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| which of the following is not a criticism of freud? |
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| he brought too much publicity to psychology |
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| which of the the following is not usually associated with dollard and mikker theory |
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| according to dollard and miller a habit is in a hieracry of possible ___. |
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| an unique aspect of bandura's social learning theory observational learning involves |
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| for carl rogers, reality is |
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| each persons own world oef experience |
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| according to dollard and miller's S-R theory a person who must decide between a low paying, prestigious job and a high paying demeaning job is facing what kind of conflict |
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| multiple approach/ avoidance |
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| the basic dynamic or source of motivation for a humanist is |
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| eccentric behavior is determind by? |
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| eccentric behavior is determind by |
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| which of the following is not part of the pracdtical definition for abnormality |
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metal patients are never cured?
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| process of diagnosing psychological( personality) problems involves all except |
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| the medical student syndrome |
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| should be treatedby a psychologist |
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| since 1954 the number of hospitalized mental patients has decreased. which of the following is not a reason for this decline? |
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| awareness of the medical student syndrome |
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| the key element in the disorders previously diagnosed as neurosis is |
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| what is the difference between a state characteristic and a trait characteristic |
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| state is a temporary characteristic and trait indicates a chronic symptom |
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| john flunked his last alegbra exam. when he got hhis paper back he told himself so who needs algebra anyway? im going to be a poet! this illustrates? |
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| have shallow inappropriate emotions |
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| suffering from an anxiety based disorder you would least liekly see an |
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| a mentally healthy personw ould not be |
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| diagnoses the problem and treats it |
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| what is not a physical form of psychotherapy? |
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| prefrontial lobotomy involves? |
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| severing nerve fibers of frontal lobes and loss of emotion |
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physcial therapies such as shock therapy and psychosurgery...
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are usually used with just the most severe disorders? |
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| when a patient sees the psychoanalyst as a fathe rimage what is occuring? |
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| humanistic therapies emphasize? |
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client centered therapy assumes that the client cannot constructively alter his personality?
client centerred thereapists solve the problems for their clients? |
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| use the principles of learning |
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| systematic desensitization is most effective in treating? |
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| social psychology can be defined as the effect of ___ on the ____. |
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| critically important in the formation of a group is the presence of |
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| interaction and commnunication, common goals and a sense of belonging |
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| which is not a reason for the existence of groups? |
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| training in attitudes, beiefs, and behaviors appropriate for a given culture is called? |
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| a strategy of social psychologists which emphasizes an attempt to establish functional relationship is called social? |
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| which is a symptom of groupthink? |
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| which would lead to greatest productivity in business settings? |
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| an attempt to quantify and describe group process by studying the communications occuring within a group defines |
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| the interaction process analysis |
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| the accepted behavior of a group i called |
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| the patterns of behavior expected from an individual becaue of his/her membership in a particular group is called |
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| empirically established standards, defined by group standards, and things that put some order in our lives are true about? |
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| pecking order is related to? |
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physical attractivness is less important than similarity in first impressions |
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| attractiveness has an important impact on interpersonal interaction because of __ attractiveness stereotypes, the assumption that attractive people will be better able to ___ you, and __ ___ prophesis. |
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| physical, reward, self-fulfilling prophesis |
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| concerning interpersonal relationships, the terms availability, expectation, predictability, and familiarty are related to? |
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| which is not a necessity for being a good leader? |
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| group response productivity will be maximazed through which of the following leadership techniques? |
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| help us deal with the social environment, act as guidelines for behavior, and can be learned? |
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| an attitude is a combination of feeling, ___ and ___. |
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| which least contributes to attiude formation? |
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| which is the least important for effective persuasion? |
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| there will be more lasting attitude change if the? |
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| recipient inadvertently hears the message |
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to increase the effectivness of an attempt to change an attitude, it is best to relate the arguments to the recipient's internal needs and his/her goals?
a recipients biasis will not influence the reception and interpretation of new information |
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| suggests u are most likely to change a persons attitude if you subtly induce the person to behave in a manner inconsistent with his/her attitudes? |
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| when important elements in a situation r consistent or harmonious refers to the ___ theory of attitudes? |
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| the primary effect may best be defines as the tendency for ___-heard information to be more persuasive than ___-heard information |
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| ___ are genralizations emphasizing dissimilarities, about out-group members, are learned. |
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| philosophy, biology, physiology |
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| with a b.a in psychology you would be least likely to quality as director of? |
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| on college campuses psychology? |
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| becamse the "in" subject of the 80's |
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| alvin toffler's future shock stresses the need for americas consumption- oriented society to shift its emphasis toward? |
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