Personality Psychology Chapter 3 || with Error-free Solutions.
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Which of the following characteristic patterns reveal an individual's personality? correct answers emotional experience, thought, behavior, NOT situations
Which of the following personality tests are omnibus inventories? correct answers Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Big Fiv...
Personality Psychology Chapter 3 || with Error-free
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Which of the following characteristic patterns reveal an individual's personality? correct answers
emotional experience, thought, behavior, NOT situations
Which of the following personality tests are omnibus inventories? correct answers Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Big Five Inventory (BFI), Hogan Personality
Inventory (HPI), California Psychological Inventory (CPI), NOT The Self-Monitoring Test
(SMT), Shyness Inventory (SI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Which of the following are useful in assessing personality? correct answers attitudes about
political leaders, aggression, extraversion, NOT weather patterns
Identify the following tests as yielding either B or S data. correct answers B data: Rorschach test,
IQ test, projective test
S data: the Big Five personality test, objective test
Most personality tests provide what kind of data? correct answers S data
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) correct answers A job applicant answers
"yes" or "no" to a series of questions about their behavior.
projective test correct answers A participant in a psychology study interprets an ambiguous
picture of members of various ethnicities in order to provide data on their unconscious
prejudices.
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) correct answers Clients tell stories about drawings of people
and ambiguous events.
Rorschach test correct answers Patients tell an analyst what they see in an inkblot.
objective test correct answers A participant in a psychology study rates how much they agree
with a series of statements about their personality on a scale from 1 to 5.
the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), a Big Five personality test, the
California Psychological Inventory (CPI), NOT: the Rorschach test, the Thematic Apperception
Test
Identify the true and false statements about projective tests. correct answers They assess how
people interpret ambiguous stimuli., They yield B data; NOT: They assess how people interpret
ambiguous stimuli., They yield S data
What is the main drawback of both projective and B-data tests? correct answers The answer and
validity of the answer depend critically on the test interpreter
, What is the purpose of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)? correct answers to measure
implicit motives
The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is an example of what type of test? correct answers
Projective
Researchers use different types of tests depending on whether they want to assess S or B data. -
_____- test assess B data and attempt to gain insight into personality by interpreting individuals'
open-ended responses, whereas -_____- tests assess S data and evaluate individuals' responses to
specific questions about themselves with predetermined response options that are less open to
interpretation. correct answers projective, objective
A researcher shows you various cards with pictures on them and asks you to tell a story about the
scene and people in the pictures. What kind of test is this? correct answers a projective
personality test
Which of the following are disadvantages of projective tests? correct answers They are time-
consuming to administer., They lack validity, They are inefficient in providing useful data.,
NOT: clinicians find them unhelpful, The number of items on each test is unwieldy for
psychologists.
Ciara is a social psychologist who is interested in constructing a questionnaire to measure
implicit prejudice. She can improve the reliability of her measure by including _____ items, and
she can estimate the improvements in ______ by using the Spearman-Brown formula. correct
answers many, reliability
Why do objective tests typically have so many test items or questions? correct answers one way
to make a test more reliable is simply to make it longer
If a test consists of a list of questions that can be answered "yes" or "no," "true" or "false," or on
a numeric scale, and especially if the test uses a computer-scored answer sheet, then it is what
kind of test? correct answers an Objective test
What is the basic assumption of the empirical method of test creation? correct answers certain
kinds of people have distinctive ways of answering certain questions on personality inventories
empirical method correct answers responses to a large number of questions from two distinct
groups of people
rational method correct answers a test writer's psychological topic of interest
Which of the following methods are useful for constructing objective tests? correct answers
factor analytic method, empirical method, rational method, NOT projective method, replication
method, replication method
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