Student Quiz, Chapter 8

Student quiz, Chapter 8

Chapter 8

1. ______are consistencies in behavior, emotions, and attitudes that are evident across situations and across time a) Emotional traits b) Behavior traits c) Personality traits d) Permanent traits

Ans: c

2. Objective personality tests: a) Always use the same scoring system b) Include behavioral observations c) Use different scoring systems, depending on the coder d) Only account for a minority of personality tests

Ans: a

3. Katie is completing a questionnaire on her anxiety symptoms, including questions about how strong these symptoms are and how often they occur. What type of questionnaire is this? a) A symptom checklist b) An objective personality test c) A projective personality test d) A behavioral personality test

Ans: a

4. ______are based on the assumption that valuable information on aspects of the test- taker’s personality structure can be gleaned from responses to ambiguous stimuli such as pictures or incomplete sentences. a) Personality symptom checklists b) Objective personality test c) Projective personality test d) Behavioral personality test

Ans: c

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5. In what is often referred to as the “person-situation debate”, what did Walter Mischel argue? a) The more an individual possessed a certain trait, the more likely that person was to behave in a manner consistent with the trait in any environment or situation b) Variations across situations seemed to be more important than personality measures in accounting for behavioral variability c) Personality traits and environmental discrepancies accounted equally for behavioral variability d) Genetics influenced individuals to behave in particular ways

Ans: b

6. What has recent research found with regards to the unconscious? a) There is significant evidence for the existence of the Freudian concept of repression by which information is kept out of consciousness but is stored in memory b) Much of the unconscious is simply inaccessible to conscious inspection because it was never processed in consciousness in the first place c) There is very little evidence for the existence of conscious suppression d) There are several motivational and emotional impediments to people easily accessing unconscious content

Ans: b

7. Most personality inventories include scales designed to detect whether a person is faking good, faking bad, or responding randomly. What type of scales are these? a) Reliability scales b) Positive scales c) Random-detection scales d) Validity scales

Ans: d

8. Jorgen is hoping to receive disability insurance. He decides to purposefully exaggerate negative characteristics when completing a personality inventory administered by a psychologist who is doing the assessment for the insurance company. What is this an example of? a) Lingering b) Mislingering

2 Student quiz, Chapter 8 c) Malingering d) Malintent

Ans: c

9. What is the most stringent way of defining “clinical utility”? a) A test has clinical utility when it is found to be useful by clinical practitioners b) A test has clinical utility when the use of the test and the resulting data improve typical clinical decision-making and treatment outcome c) A test has clinical utility when there is replicated evidence that the measurement data provide reliable and valid information about clients’ psychological functioning d) All of the above

Ans: b

10. Which of the following personality inventories is one of the newest, only requires a 4th grade reading level, and is gaining support with psychologists because its main scales are designed to address common DSM Axis I and Axis II diagnoses? a) The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) b) The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) c) The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-II) d) The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescent (MMPI-A)

Ans: a

11. Who published the original version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)? a) Achenbach b) Butcher c) Millon d) Hathaway and McKinley

Ans: d

12. Which method of test construction involves the generation and analysis of a pool of items and retains items that discriminate between two clearly defined groups? a) Empirical criterion-keying approach b) Item analysis approach

3 Student quiz, Chapter 8 c) Content approach d) Discriminatory approach

Ans: a

13. Because of the normative sample used, the MMPI-II may result in: a) A high number of false negatives for patients of lower socioeconomic levels b) A high number of false positives for Asian American women c) The overpathologization of patients of lower socioeconomic levels d) The underpathologization of Asian American women

Ans: c

14. The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III): a) Only assesses personality styles b) Has a tendency to underpathologize test-takers c) Does not have any normative data d) Is intended for use with clients seeking mental health services and is not appropriate for use with adults with no psychological problems

Ans: d

15. Which of the following inventories focuses on normal personality assessment and is based on the five-factor model of personality? a) The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) b) The NEO Personality Inventory–Revised (NEO PI-R) c) The Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) d) The 45-item Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45)

Ans: b

16. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II): a) Is designed to evaluate the severity of depressive symptoms in children b) Evaluates symptoms over the past 6 months c) Is a psychometrically weak tool for assessing depressive symptoms d) Does not provide sufficient detail to determine whether a person meets diagnostic criteria for depression

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Ans: d

17. Projective measures of personality: a) Include ambiguous stimuli with no inherent meaning b) Are not standardized and are not rigorously based on scientific principles c) Do not have obvious right or wrong answers d) All of the above

Ans: d

18. The Rorschach Inkblot Test fits in the following category of projective measures: a) Construction techniques b) Association techniques c) Completion techniques d) Expression techniques

Ans: b

19. Which of the following is not a shortcoming of the Rorschach Inkblot Test? a) It overpathologizes patients b) There are problems with scoring accuracy c) It can not provide any valid information about intelligence or thought disorder d) Major problems arose in trying to develop norms for youth

Ans: c

20. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT): a) Does not have a single dominant scoring system b) Is the only apperceptive measure of personality c) Has normative data for adults d) Clearly states how many and which cards to use in an assessment

Ans: a