Exam 2

A  personal identity is preserved regardless of situation

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

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

D  situational forces can significantly influence an individual’s behavior

A  three

B  five

C  twenty

D  sixteen

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

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

B  they are answered differently by different kinds of people

C  they are correlated with other items on the scales

D  their content adequately reflects the construct to be measured

A  empirical

B  rational

C  factor analytic

D  a combination of factor analytic and empirical methods

A  extraversion

B  neuroticism

C  openness to experience

D  conscientiousness

A  conscientiousness

B  extraversion

C  openness to experience

D  openness to experience

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  adulthood

B  adolescence and the college years

C  infancy

D  childhood

A  extraversion

B  openness to experience

C  agreeableness

D  psychoticism

A  individual differences cannot be measured reliably.

B  people are inconsistent.

C  situations do not affect behavior.

D  correlational methods do not clearly indicate effect size.

A  individual differences.

B  the measurement of absolute levels of traits.

C  physical dimensions.

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

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  motivations.

B  personality variables.

C  goals.

D  situations.

A  objective

B  rationally constructed

C  factor analytic

D  projective

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

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

C  a treatment for personality disorders.

D  the analysis and interpretation of genetic markers of personality.

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  conscientiousness

B  extraversion

C  openness to experience

D  self-monitoring

A  conscientiousness

B  neuroticism

C  openness to experience

D  extraversion

A  check for moderator variables

B  predict behavioral trends rather than single acts

C  measure behavior in real life

D  All of the above.

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

B  situations do not influence behavior.

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

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

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

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

C  our everyday intuitions about people are fundamentally flawed.

D  All of the above.

A  neuroticism

B  need for cognition

C  general mental health

D  openness to experience

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  empirical

B  rational

C  projective

D  factor analytic

A  openness

B  agreeableness

C  psychoticism

D  conscientiousness

A  TAT

B  MMPI

C  Rorschach inkblots

D  None of the above are objective tests.

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

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

C  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

D  projective tests are relatively inefficient and expensive

A  Buss-Perry Aggression Q-Sort

B  Draw-a-Person Test

C  Draw-a-Face Test

D  Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)