Personality Theories Exam 1 UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Personality - CORRECT ANSWER - Dictionary definitions; State of being a person,
Characteristics and qualities that form a person's distinctive character, Sum total of a person's
physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics
Psychological definition: Unique and relatively enduring internal and external aspects of a
person's character
Description is complex: Humans change according to different situations and people
Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER - Consistency of response to a psychological
assessment device
Self-Report Inventories - CORRECT ANSWER - Subjective answer questions about
behaviors and feelings in various situations
Projective tests - CORRECT ANSWER - Rorschach Inkblot Technique, Thematic
Apperception Test, Word Association and sentence completion
Behavioral assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - Observer evaluates a person's behavior in
a given situation (like during a clinical interview)
MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) - CORRECT ANSWER - A self-
report inventory: True/false test that consists of 478 statements about:
Physical and psychological health
Political and social attitudes
Educational, occupational, family and marital factors
Neurotic and psychotic behavior tendencies
Thematic Apperception test (TAT) - CORRECT ANSWER - Look at vague pictures and
tells the proctor what is going on, or tell a story about the pictures.
,Sentence completion - CORRECT ANSWER - List of words is read one at a time to the
patient, who is asked to respond with the first word that comes to mind
Independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - variable that is manipulated
Dependent variables - CORRECT ANSWER - variables that are measured
experimental group - CORRECT ANSWER - exposed to experimental treatments
control group - CORRECT ANSWER - does not receive experimental treatment
Validity - CORRECT ANSWER - Extent to which an assessment device measures what it
is intended to measure
Case study - CORRECT ANSWER - Detailed history of an individual - primary clinical
method
Word association test - CORRECT ANSWER - Projective technique in which a person
responds to a stimulus word with whatever word comes to mind
Rorschach inkblot test - CORRECT ANSWER - Projective test; a set of 10 inkblots,
designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their
interpretations of the blots
Thought and experience sampling - CORRECT ANSWER - records thoughts and moods
in a systematic manner
Participants are asked to describe social and environmental context in which the experience
being sampled occurs
, Clinical interviews - CORRECT ANSWER - Involves asking relevant questions about:
Past and present life experiences
Social and family relationships
Reasons for seeking psychological help
Online test administration - CORRECT ANSWER - Psychological tests, opinion surveys,
and subject responses to experimental stimuli
Correlational method - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures the degree of relationship
between two variables
Conscious - CORRECT ANSWER - The _____ includes all the sensations and experiences
of which we are aware at any given moment.
questionnaire - CORRECT ANSWER - All of the following are associated with Freud's
investigation of the unconscious except:
a. dream analysis.
b. questionnaires.
c. resistances.
d. free association.
b. Freud failed to consider the impact of biological forces. - CORRECT ANSWER - All of
the following are valid criticisms of Freudian psychoanalysis except that:
a. Freud focused too much on past behavior.
b. Freud failed to consider the impact of biological forces.
c. Freud's definitions are somewhat ambiguous.
d. Freud did not study emotionally healthy persons.
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Personality - CORRECT ANSWER - Dictionary definitions; State of being a person,
Characteristics and qualities that form a person's distinctive character, Sum total of a person's
physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics
Psychological definition: Unique and relatively enduring internal and external aspects of a
person's character
Description is complex: Humans change according to different situations and people
Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER - Consistency of response to a psychological
assessment device
Self-Report Inventories - CORRECT ANSWER - Subjective answer questions about
behaviors and feelings in various situations
Projective tests - CORRECT ANSWER - Rorschach Inkblot Technique, Thematic
Apperception Test, Word Association and sentence completion
Behavioral assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - Observer evaluates a person's behavior in
a given situation (like during a clinical interview)
MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) - CORRECT ANSWER - A self-
report inventory: True/false test that consists of 478 statements about:
Physical and psychological health
Political and social attitudes
Educational, occupational, family and marital factors
Neurotic and psychotic behavior tendencies
Thematic Apperception test (TAT) - CORRECT ANSWER - Look at vague pictures and
tells the proctor what is going on, or tell a story about the pictures.
,Sentence completion - CORRECT ANSWER - List of words is read one at a time to the
patient, who is asked to respond with the first word that comes to mind
Independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER - variable that is manipulated
Dependent variables - CORRECT ANSWER - variables that are measured
experimental group - CORRECT ANSWER - exposed to experimental treatments
control group - CORRECT ANSWER - does not receive experimental treatment
Validity - CORRECT ANSWER - Extent to which an assessment device measures what it
is intended to measure
Case study - CORRECT ANSWER - Detailed history of an individual - primary clinical
method
Word association test - CORRECT ANSWER - Projective technique in which a person
responds to a stimulus word with whatever word comes to mind
Rorschach inkblot test - CORRECT ANSWER - Projective test; a set of 10 inkblots,
designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their
interpretations of the blots
Thought and experience sampling - CORRECT ANSWER - records thoughts and moods
in a systematic manner
Participants are asked to describe social and environmental context in which the experience
being sampled occurs
, Clinical interviews - CORRECT ANSWER - Involves asking relevant questions about:
Past and present life experiences
Social and family relationships
Reasons for seeking psychological help
Online test administration - CORRECT ANSWER - Psychological tests, opinion surveys,
and subject responses to experimental stimuli
Correlational method - CORRECT ANSWER - Measures the degree of relationship
between two variables
Conscious - CORRECT ANSWER - The _____ includes all the sensations and experiences
of which we are aware at any given moment.
questionnaire - CORRECT ANSWER - All of the following are associated with Freud's
investigation of the unconscious except:
a. dream analysis.
b. questionnaires.
c. resistances.
d. free association.
b. Freud failed to consider the impact of biological forces. - CORRECT ANSWER - All of
the following are valid criticisms of Freudian psychoanalysis except that:
a. Freud focused too much on past behavior.
b. Freud failed to consider the impact of biological forces.
c. Freud's definitions are somewhat ambiguous.
d. Freud did not study emotionally healthy persons.
