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PsychologyTesting and MeasurementPsychological TestingPractice Set 2488Personality Assessment: An Overview
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Question 1
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Psychologist John Holland was BEST known for
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a research program that led to the development of the Big 5.
a controversy regarding the primacy of states versus traits.
a theory that occupational choice depends on personality.
a tunnel linking New York and New Jersey, named in his honor.
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Question 2
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Relatively few personality tests seek to distinguish traits from states.One test that does make this distinction is
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the MMPI-2-RF.
the STAI.
the Self-Directed Search.
the CPI.
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Question 3
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Takumi completes a self-report inventory of personality.Generalizing from what you read in Chapter 12,the best person to ask to complete that same inventory to learn about Takumi would be
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a close family member of Takumi.
a classmate or fellow employee of Takumi.
someone who was just introduced to Takumi.
None of these
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Question 4
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In the OSS blown bridge evaluation,assistants of the candidate being evaluated
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were responsible for getting the necessary parts.
were responsible for all of the "heavy lifting."
might take command of the task at any time.
did more to frustrate efforts than help.
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Question 5
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Pre-production legal work on the film The Three Faces of Eve entailed getting Eve White,Eve Black,and Jane to sign contracts with the producer.The patient was asked to elicit these three different personalities and then sign a contract.The signatures on the three contracts were determined to be
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completely different as a function of the personality.
all pretty much the same according to a graphologist.
all consistent with a fourth personality elicited by the patient.
valid but only because the patient signed each contract with an "X."
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Question 6
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A key definitional difference between the terms personality trait and personality state has to do with
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the extent to which personality is viewed as a physical attribute.
how stable over time the characteristic is exhibited.
whether or not the characteristic is subject to a halo effect.
the motivation of the person or persons doing the rating.
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Question 7
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Bushman and Wells had high school hockey players complete a pre-season,self-report measure of aggressiveness.The preseason measure of aggressiveness was shown to
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predict the number of penalty minutes served.
be negatively related to the number of penalty minutes served.
predict the total number of goals scored.
None of these
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Question 8
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Gosling's cross-species work in personality assessment has suggested that differences in the personality of dogs exist and can be
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reliably measured.
distinguished by breed.
inherited from one generation to the next.
All of these
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Question 9
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Which test would be appropriate for use with a seven-year-old child?
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The BYI-II Depression Inventory
The BYI-II Self-Concept Inventory
The BYI-II Anxiety Inventory
All of these
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Question 10
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According to the findings of Donahue et al.,people with low levels of self-concept differentiation
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tend to be less healthy physically.
tend to be healthier psychologically.
tend to have a less unified sense of self.
None of these
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Question 11
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A measure of anxiety contains 100 statements written in an agree/disagree format.Maxime indicates disagreement with each one of the statements.From this limited amount of information,it seems reasonable to say that
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Maxime may be trying to present himself in a favorable light.
Maxime may be exhibiting a nonacquiescent response tendency.
Maxime may be exhibiting a response set characterized by deviance.
Maxime may be responding in a socially desirable manner.
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Question 12
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A clinician has her clients rate every therapy session on a seven-point rating scale with "helpful" on one end,and "not helpful" on the other.This clinician is using a method of assessment called
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the semantic differential.
forced-choice format.
adjective checklist format.
None of these
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Question 13
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In Chapter 12 of the text,reference was made to a study that entailed the measurement of attachment security in
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elementary school children using the BYI-II.
Iranian refugees using the NEO-PI-R.
high school students using the Self-Directed Search.
rhesus monkeys using Q-sort methodology.
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Question 14
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"Certain personality traits exist in all people to varying degrees.The assessor's task is to determine what the strength of each of these traits are in the assessee." We would be MOST likely to hear this statement from one who
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has never taken a course in psychological testing and assessment.
views testing and assessment from a nomothetic viewpoint.
views testing and assessment from an idiographic viewpoint.
views testing and assessment from an ipsative perspective.
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Question 15
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Which test BEST exemplifies a tool of assessment developed on the basis of logic and reason?
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the MMPI
the CPI
the Blacky Pictures Test
the Personal Data Sheet
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Question 16
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Psychologists have embraced "the Big 5" big time,and a number of tests have been developed to measure the Big 5.Which of the following is NOT a test that was developed to measure the Big 5?
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the NEO-PI-R
the Big Five Inventory (BFI)
the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI)
the 16-PF
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Question 17
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FBS with regard to the MMPI
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stands for "Faking Bad Scale" and it is used to detect malingerers.
was a validity scale proposed by Lees-Haley, et al.
was criticized by MMPI author James Butcher.
All of these
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Question 18
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"The unique way people interpret and make sense of their perceptions as a consequence of their learning experiences,cultural background,and related variables." This is a definition of which of the following terms?
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instrumental values
terminal values
worldview
acculturation
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Question 19
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In the title of the test known as the MMPI-A,the "A" stands for
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Adult
Adolescent
Form "A"
Alternate Form
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Question 20
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An implication of terms such as self-concept differentiation is that
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personality traits can be fragmented.
the more unified one's self-perception, the better.
traits are context dependent.
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