Question 1
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Personality assessment refers to ________.
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a treatment for personality disorders
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the analysis and interpretation of genetic markers of personality
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the measurement of any characteristic pattern of behavior, thought, or emotion
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the selection of a group of individuals with the most unique temperaments
Question 2
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Personality assessment would be relevant to which of the following constructs?
Question 3
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What term refers to personality inventories that are designed to measure a wide range of traits?
Question 4
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The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) was designed to ________.
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assess individuals with psychological disorders
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assess normal individuals
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identify the Big Five personality factors
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assess Jung’s psychological types
Question 5
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What does the acronym MMPI stand for?
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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Minnesota Multiple Personality Inventory
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Michigan Major Personality Inventory
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Michigan Multiple Personality Inventory
Question 6
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The MMPI was designed to ________.
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assess individuals with psychological disorders
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assess normal individuals
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identify the Big Five personality factors
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assess Jung’s psychological types
Question 7
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Although Funder draws a distinction between S and B data, the distinction between ________ tests is
also discussed in the text.
Question 8
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Recent research using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to study shyness indicates that ________.
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“controlled” aspects of shyness can be predicted using S data, but uncontrolled or
spontaneous aspects can be more accurately predicted using B data
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“controlled” aspects of shyness can be predicted using B data, but uncontrolled or
spontaneous aspects are more accurately predicted based on S data
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S data were unrelated to any aspects of shy behavior, but B data predicted many facets of
shy behavior
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B data were unrelated to any aspects of shy behavior, but S data predicted many facets of
shy behavior
Question 9
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An IQ test yields what kind of data?
Question 10
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The Implicit Association Test (IAT) yields what kind of data?
Question 11
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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.
Question 12
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A projective test yields ________ data.
Question 13
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According to the text, one of the nonpsychometric functions of projective tests is to ________.
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diagnose psychiatric disorders
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increase the billable hours of clinical psychologists
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break the ice between client and therapist
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reduce countertransference between client and therapist
Question 14
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As described in the text, according to some motivation researchers, the Thematic Apperception Test
(TAT) measures ________, whereas questionnaire-based measures predict ________.
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what people want; actual performance
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what people need; what people want
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what people want; how motives are expressed
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how motives are expressed; actual performance
Question 15
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According to the text, which projective test appears to have produced evidence that comes close to
establishing its validity?
Question 16
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What is the name of the newer, shorter version of the TAT?
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Q-Sort Card Projection
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Picture Sort Test
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TAT-RTAT-R
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Picture Story Exercise
Question 17
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A psychologist administering the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) asks respondents to ________.
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draw a person so that the psychologist may determine which parts are left out or
exaggerated
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describe their current level of hostility so that the psychologist can measure their type A
tendencies
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tell stories about pictures that the psychologist shows them
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describe their perceptions of the causes of people’s behavior so that the psychologist can
measure attributional complexity
Question 18
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All projective tests ________.
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involve stimuli with no clear meaning
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involve the construction of stories and narratives
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require choosing among multiple, predetermined alternatives
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rely on computer scoring methods
Question 19
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If you were shown an inkblot and asked to describe what you saw, you would be taking the ________.
Question 20
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When evaluated as psychometric instruments, most projective tests ________.
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do not fare very well
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have validity but little reliability
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have generalizability but little validity
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do as well as objective tests like the CPI and MMPI
Question 21
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Which of the following is a limitation of projective tests?
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Clinicians tend to find them relatively unhelpful despite their considerable validity.
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Projective tests are relatively inefficient and expensive to administer.
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Although projective tests discriminate between known groups, the content of the items
may seem absurd to test takers.
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Respondents uniformly hate taking projective tests because of their length.
Question 22
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If a test consists of a list of True/False questions and is graded using a computer-scored answer sheet,
then it is a(n) ________.
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projective test
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Q-sort
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objective test
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commonality scale
Question 23
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The reason that objective tests include so many items is to increase the ________ of the test.
Question 24
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The improvement in reliability gained by adding additional “good” test items can be precisely
calculated using the ________ formula.
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Pearson Product Moment
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alpha
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Tucker-Lewis
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Spearman-Brown
Question 25
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Which of the following is an objective test?
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MMPI
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TAT
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Rorschach inkblots
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Picture Story Exercise
Question 26
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Increasing the number of items on a test makes it a better instrument according to which principle?
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construct validation
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operational definition
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aggregation
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incremental validation
Question 27
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Which objective personality scale could be used to identify individuals who cannot read text?
Question 28
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If everybody read, interpreted, and answered an item in exactly the same way, then that item
________.
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would not be very useful for the assessment of individual differences
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would be very informative about personality
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was developed using the rational method of test construction
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is empirically derived
Question 29
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The basis of the ________ method of test construction is to come up with items that seem directly,
obviously, and logically related to what it is you wish to measure.
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rational
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empirical
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philosophical
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factor analytic
Question 30
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What is the most common method of test construction?
Question 31
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According to the text, the last step in a factor analysis is to ________.
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calculate correlation coefficients between all item pairs
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administer the items to a new sample
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find new criterion groups
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name the factors
Question 32
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The factor analytic technique of test construction is designed to________.
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identify individuals who are attempting to lie or sabotage a test
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identify groups of test items that seem to be alike
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identify items that mean the same thing to the respondent as they do to the researcher
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create projective tests
Question 33
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What is the first step in the empirical method of scale construction?
Question 34
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The primary criterion for item selection in the empirical method of test construction is determining
whether the item ________.
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makes the scale more reliable
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discriminates between two known groups
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loads highly on its primary factor
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will be challenged in a legal context
Question 35
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A test created using the empirical method yields what kind of data?
Question 36
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The Woodworth Personality Data Sheet was designed to measure psychiatric problems in what group?
Question 37
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The approach to personality test construction that examines a set of correlations among many items in
order to identify which items are highly correlated is called the ________ approach.
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nomothetic
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idiographic
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rational
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factor analytic
Question 38
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Factor analysis can ________.
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give psychological meaning to groups of traits
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unquestionably determine the basic dimensions of personality
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identify groups of items that go together
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tell which items best differentiate normal and abnormal populations
Question 39
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The sole basis on which items are selected for empirically derived personality scales is whether
________.
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their content adequately reflects the construct to be measured
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they are correlated with other items on the scales
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the respondent will be willing and able to give an accurate self-assessment for them
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they are answered differently by different kinds of people
Question 40
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Dr. Akita is designing a test to measure sociability. She writes items that seem directly and obviously
related to sociability, such as “I like to go to parties” and “I enjoy the company of other people.”
Dr. Akita is using the ________ method of test construction.
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empirical
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factor analytic
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rational
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projective
Question 41
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Imagine that you want to develop a test to measure depression. You gather a set of 100 potential test
items and ask a sample of people diagnosed with clinical depression and a sample of nondepressed
people to respond to the items. For your final version of the test, you decide to keep only the 15 items
that the depressed and nondepressed groups answered differently. You are using a(n) ________ method
of test construction.
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factor analytic
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rational
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projective
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empirical
Question 42
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If you were to fully develop a personality test without even looking at the item content, you would be
using the ________ method of test construction.
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factor analytic
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rational
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projective
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empirical
Question 43
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A test created using the rational method yields what kind of data?
Question 44
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The ________ method is NOT a basic method for constructing objective personality tests.
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rational
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empirical
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factor analytic
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consensus validation
Question 45
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According to the text, which of the following is NOT one of the conditions that must hold for an S data
personality test to accurately measure an attribute of personality?
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The test taker must be able to make an accurate self-assessment.
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All of the items must be valid indicators of the construct.
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The test taker must be willing to report the self-assessment accurately.
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The test must contain both positively and negatively worded items.
Question 46
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According to the text, what is the best approach to test construction?
Question 47
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Which of the following approaches to test construction is the most atheoretical?
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rational
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factor analytic
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content validation
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empirical
Question 48
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Which of the following is NOT a major limitation of the factor analytic approach?
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Usually the factors that emerge do not make sense in even well designed research.
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The results are only as good as the items that are included in the analysis.
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The factors are only as good as the criterion groups used to validate the measure.
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It is up to psychologists to label the factors.
Question 49
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Faking responses in order to influence test results is most difficult on ________ constructed tests.
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factor analytically
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empirically
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rationally
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nomothetically
Question 50
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Inventories derived from the empirical method sometimes have items that seem strange or even
objectionable to test takers ________.
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in order to catch test takers who are faking responses
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because those items correlated with outcomes of interest to the test developers
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to identify test takers who are prudish and close-minded
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because those items seemed the most content-valid to the test developers
Question 51
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Which of the following statements does NOT apply to rationally constructed personality scales?
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The items must all be face-valid indicators of what the tester is trying to measure.
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The person who completes the form must be able and willing to report an accurate selfassessment.
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Each item must mean the same thing to the person who fills out the form as it did to the
psychologist who wrote it.
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Items are selected with the aid of statistical analyses such as item response theory (IRT).
Question 52
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Currently, the consensus among most personality researchers is that there are ________ fundamental
personality traits.
Question 53
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The Big Five ________.
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are the five key steps in the process of factor analysis
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are steps in the construction of rational tests
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factor analytically derived dimensions of personality
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are the primary methods of test construction used by personality psychologists
Question 54
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Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five?
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psychoticism
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conscientiousness
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neuroticism
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agreeableness
Question 55
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If a psychologist describes a research result as statistically significant, what does he or she typically
mean?
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The result is important.
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The result is large and dramatic.
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The result is unlikely to have occurred by chance.
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The result will likely revolutionize the field.
Question 56
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A researcher wants to conduct a significance test for the correlation between extraversion and
happiness. What is the null hypothesis in this analysis?
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Extraversion is positively correlated with happiness.
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Extraversion is negatively correlated with happiness.
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Extraversion is the same construct as happiness.
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Extraversion is uncorrelated with happiness.
Question 57
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What is the correct definition of the p-value?
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probability that the null hypothesis is true
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probability that the null hypothesis is false
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probability that the observed result occurred by chance given that the null hypothesis is
true
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probability that the observed result occurred by chance given that the null hypothesis is
false
Question 58
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Imagine that a researcher conducts a study and finds a statistically significant correlation between
eating pizza and aggression. However, there is no real association between eating pizza and aggression
in the population. What kind of error has this researcher made?
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Type I
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Type II
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Type III
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correlational
Question 59
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Imagine that a researcher conducts a study and fails to find a statistically significant correlation
between exercise and weight loss. However, there is a real association between exercise and weight
loss in the population. What kind of error has this researcher made?
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Type I
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Type II
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Type III
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correlational
Question 60
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Which of the following is NOT one of the concerns associated with the practice of null-hypothesis
significance testing?
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A statistically significant result is not necessarily important or meaningful.
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The smaller the sample size, the easier it is to find a significant effect.
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The criterion for a significant result (p < .05) is arbitrary.
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The p-value is easy to interpret and its logic is easy to describe.
Question 61
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The number between –1 and +1 that indexes the linear association between any two variables is called
________.
Question 62
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The Binomial Effect Size Display is a method for illustrating the size of ________.
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reliability coefficients
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validity coefficients
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correlation coefficients
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p-values
Question 63
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A researcher computes a correlation coefficient between variables X and Y using a handheld calculator.
Which of the following values would automatically tell the researcher that he or she made a mistake?
Question 64
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Imagine that you could draw a flat horizontal line through the points on a scatter plot depicting the
relation between X and Y. Which of the following is the closest value to the correlation coefficient that
you would compute from these data?
Question 65
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Imagine that you could draw a line through the points on a scatter plot depicting the relation between
X and Y that slopes upward from left to right. Which of the following is a possible value for the
correlation coefficient that you would compute from these data?
Question 66
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Which of the following is good practice for interpreting a correlation?
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finding a method that demonstrates the size of the correlation in a concrete manner
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evaluating whether it is statistically significant at the p < .05 level
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simply looking at the sign of the correlation and ignoring the actual value
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squaring the value, so that you can interpret the value more easily
Question 67
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Using the Binomial Effect Size Display, if there is a correlation of .30 between drinking alcohol and
the likelihood of having a car accident, then out of 100 people who have been drinking, you would
expect ________ of them to have an accident.
Question 68
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Assume that you are studying 200 participants, all of whom are sick. An experimental drug is given to
100 of them; the other 100 are given nothing. If the correlation between taking the drug and living is .
26, then ________ percent of those who got the drug would still be alive at the end of the study.
Question 69
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Integrity tests administered in employment screening provide good measures of ________.
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conscientiousness
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intelligence
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drug use on the job
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sociability
Question 70
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Eliminating the use of personality tests in employment screening will ________.
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prevent biases from affecting hiring decisions
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decrease the likelihood that women and minorities will be discriminated against in hiring
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increase the use of lie detector tests and drug tests in employment screening
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not prevent traits from being judged but will change the ways traits are judged
Question 71
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One objection to the use of vocational interest tests is that these tests ________.
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measure conscientiousness rather than vocational interest
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may discourage women or minority group members from joining certain fields
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measure performance ability rather than job interest
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can be used to tell individuals what kind of occupational group they most resemble
Question 72
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Which of the following is an ethical issue involved in the research process?
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how research findings are used
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which research topics are studied
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how truthful researchers are when describing their work
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all of the above
Question 73
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Which of the following is the biggest concern that Funder has about the use of deception in
psychological research?
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Most experiments that involve deception cause too much harm to participants.
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Most experiments that involve deception are too silly to warrant such an extreme method.
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The use of deception may harm the credibility of psychology and psychological
researchers.
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None of the above; Funder has few concerns about the use of deception in research.
Question 74
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Which of the following is NOT a typical argument used to justify deception in psychological research?
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Participants have given informed consent and can withdraw their data if they are upset.
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The use of deception actually educates participants about ethical concerns in research.
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The deception typically does not harm participants.
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Some topics can only be studied using deception.