Which of the following is NOT an example of a theory that provides a guide for researchers?

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A Freudian psychoanalyst predicting stinginess from the ideas about development through a particular stag

A biological psychologist predicting a decrease in social behavior when the frontal lobe of the brain is dam

A personality psychologist analyzing a large pool of responses to questionnaire items to find the underlyin

A cognitive psychologist predicting that how an individual's self evaluation will determine his or her reacti

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Comparing men and women on emotionality.

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Developing a questionnaire that measures sociability.

Writing a case study of Albert Einstein's personality.

Conducting a field study of helping behaviors.

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Your grade point average best indicates your average performance in your college classes
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over time. This illustrates the concept of

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amalgamation
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aggregation

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aggrandizement

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 Vince is watching his school's team play in the championship basketball game. He is wildly
cheering his team on to victory, talking to everyone around him, even though they are
strangers, and shouting at the referees for making bad calls on his team. From psychologist
Walter Mischel's perspective, Vince is primarily behaving due to

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his extremely strong competitiveness and extraversion.

the extremely strong effects of the six tacos he ate for lunch.

his extremely strong long-term commitment to the basketball team.

the extremely strong effects of the immediate situation.

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Josh has been required to complete an anger management course as part of his sentencing for

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his conviction in a road rage incident. He completes a personality test and answers the
questions in a way that he believes will reduce the amount time he will spend in the course. In

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terms of psychological measurement issues Josh is
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faking good.
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faking bad.
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false negative.
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false positive.
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Self-esteem variability is most correlated with
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self-esteem level.
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childhood temper tantrums.

depression.

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 activity level.

Question 7
Which of the following does NOT predict later levels of marital satisfaction?

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Impulse control

Childhood temper tantrums

Neuroticism

Sensation seeking

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The lexical approach assumes that
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the lexicon is an unchanging catalog of human traits.
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humans invented words to describe all of the important personality traits.
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statistical techniques, like factor analysis, are poor ways of discovering important personality traits.
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new words in the lexicon are better at describing personality traits than old words.
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Some individuals have spontaneous electrodermal responses even when in a resting state in a
quiet room. The personality traits most consistently associated with these nonspecific
electrodermal responses are
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extroversion and openness to experience.

anxiety and neuroticism.

sensation seeking and aggression.

impulsivity and psychoticism.

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 Question 10
A trait is likely to be heritable if _____ are more similar in that trait than _____.

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dizygotic twins; monozygotic twins

monozygotic twins; dizygotic twins

ordinary siblings; dizygotic twins

dizygotic twins; ordinary siblings

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Most studies linking a specific gene to personality

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fail to find a relationship.

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find that the gene accounts for a small percentage of variance.

find that the gene accounts for a moderate percentage of variance.

find that the gene accounts for a large percentage of variance.

Question 12
Which of the following statements about the id, ego, and superego is true?
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The id, ego, and superego are always interacting.
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The id, ego, and superego operate completely independently.

The superego must manage the demands of both the ego and the id.
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The ego is always subservient to both the id and superego.

Question 13
You are answering this question. Therefore, Freud would say the information is in the _____
(mind.)

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conscious

preconscious

unconscious

metacognitive

Question 14
Eva's mother left her on her own quite often and did not care for her needs when she was a
child. If Eva internalizes this image of her mother she may, from an object relations
perspective,

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have difficulty trusting people later in life.

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search for acceptance in later life.
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become a poor mother herself in later life.
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become an overly cautious mother in later life.

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Men tend to have _____ levels of achievement motivation compared to women.
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equal

Question 16
Which of the following motives is associated with poor health when inhibited?

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 Achievement

Intimacy

Power

None of these

Question 17
A man who recalls that a cup of milk contains 130 calories when he pours a glass of milk is
said to be engaging in

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personalizing cognition.

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objectifying cognition.

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attributional cognition.
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interpretation.
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Question 18
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A student who attributes his failure to get into a graduate school as due to the fact that he was
sick on the day of his interview has a(n) _____ explanatory style.

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specific
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global
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unstable

stable
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Question 19
To overcome shyness, people should

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 force themselves into social situations.

only enter social situations where they feel comfortable.

carefully monitor their part of the conversation.

take the view that conversation should come easily.

Question 20
People who have low self-esteem

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are interested only in positive feedback.

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are interested only in negative feedback.

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do not differ from those high in self-esteem in their interest in feedback.
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