Exam 2

A  personal identity is preserved regardless of situation

B  situational forces can significantly influence an individual’s behavior

C  personality characteristics are more important than situational influences in determining behavior

D  the prison simulation lasted for the entire two weeks that it was planned for

A  three

B  five

C  twenty

D  sixteen

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  they are answered differently by different kinds of people

B  their content adequately reflects the construct to be measured

C  they are correlated with other items on the scales

D  the respondent will be willing and able to give an accurate self-assessment for them

A  empirical

B  factor analytic

C  a combination of factor analytic and empirical methods

D  rational

A  openness to experience

B  conscientiousness

C  extraversion

D  neuroticism

A  openness to experience

B  openness to experience

C  conscientiousness

D  extraversion

A  Adolescence is the time of most mean-level change in personality.

B  Mean-levels of all personality traits drop after adolescence.

C  Mean-levels of personality traits are completely stable across the life span.

D  Most mean-level changes in personality occur in young adulthood.

A  infancy

B  childhood

C  adolescence and the college years

D  adulthood

A  agreeableness

B  openness to experience

C  psychoticism

D  extraversion

A  people are inconsistent.

B  situations do not affect behavior.

C  correlational methods do not clearly indicate effect size.

D  individual differences cannot be measured reliably.

A  physical dimensions.

B  the measurement of absolute levels of traits.

C  individual differences.

D  aspects of personality that are the same in all people.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  goals.

B  motivations.

C  situations.

D  personality variables.

A  rationally constructed

B  projective

C  objective

D  factor analytic

A  a treatment for personality disorders.

B  the selection of a group of individuals with the most unique temperaments.

C  the measurement of any characteristic pattern of behavior, thought, or emotion.

D  the analysis and interpretation of genetic markers of personality.

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  extraversion

B  openness to experience

C  conscientiousness

D  self-monitoring

A  neuroticism

B  conscientiousness

C  extraversion

D  openness to experience

A  check for moderator variables

B  measure behavior in real life

C  predict behavioral trends rather than single acts

D  All of the above.

A  the ability of personality traits to predict behavior is severely limited.

B  situations do not influence behavior.

C  situations are more important than personality traits in determining behavior.

D  both situations are more important than personality traits in determining behavior, and the ability of personality traits to predict behavior is severely limited.

A  situations are more important than personality traits for determining behavior.

B  a thorough review of the literature reveals that there is a limit to how well one can predict behavior from personality.

C  our everyday intuitions about people are fundamentally flawed.

D  All of the above.

A  openness to experience

B  need for cognition

C  neuroticism

D  general mental health

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  empirical

B  projective

C  rational

D  factor analytic

A  psychoticism

B  conscientiousness

C  agreeableness

D  openness

A  Rorschach inkblots

B  TAT

C  MMPI

D  None of the above are objective tests.

A  two different interpreters of the same response might come to different conclusions about the scoring and meaning of the response to a projective test

B  both projective tests are relatively inefficient and expensive and although projective tests discriminate between known groups, the content of the items may seem absurd to test takers

C  projective tests are relatively inefficient and expensive

D  although projective tests discriminate between known groups, the content of the items may seem absurd to test takers

A  Buss-Perry Aggression Q-Sort

B  Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

C  Draw-a-Person Test

D  Draw-a-Face Test