PSY 255 QUIZ Quiz 1
Chapters 1-6 complete
questions and answers
1. Which statement would be endorsed by a person who studies
personality?
a. The way we behave is determined entirely by what is going on
around us.
b. Most of the time we are actually not in control of our own
actions.
c. Behaviors originate within a person but can be influenced by
outside factors.
d. We are at the whim of our genetics, and must act as our
inheritance determines.
2. Which of the following is correct about the relation between personality
and culture?
a. Because personality is concerned with the person, personality
psychologists are not interested in cultural differences.
b. Most studies to date find few if any significant cross-cultural
differences in personality phenomena.
c. People and their personalities exist within a cultural context.
d. Individual differences in personality can be found only in
individualistic cultures.
3. Most of the research on personality reported in the textbook is based
on studies with people
a. from individualistic cultures.
b. from collectivist cultures.
c. with a strong sense of self.
d. who prefer cooperation to competition.
4. A researcher maintains that a person’s self-esteem level is largely
inherited from his or her parents. From this, she derives the prediction
that children with low self-esteem probably come from homes where
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, one or both parents have low self-esteem. In this case, the formal
prediction is the
a. theory.
b. hypothesis.
c. independent variable.
d. dependent variable.
5. A psychologist is working with a patient who suffers from a very rare
disorder. Which type of research is the psychologist likely to use?
a. Laboratory research
b. Survey research
c. Case study
d. Replication
6. A reliable test
a. measures what it was designed to measure.
b. measures what it measures consistently.
c. has good validity.
d. measures many different concepts at once.
7. Which of the following is a problem of test validity?
a. When test responses are depend on recent events.
b. When test questions are vague.
c. When test responses do not reflect the hypothetical constructs
being measured.
d. When similar test responses cannot be obtained in a second
testing.
8. Information about where you parked your car or the name of an uncle
who you rarely see is probably stored in which part of the mind,
according to Freud’s topographic model?
a. Conscious b.
Preconscious
c. Unconscious
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Chapters 1-6 complete
questions and answers
1. Which statement would be endorsed by a person who studies
personality?
a. The way we behave is determined entirely by what is going on
around us.
b. Most of the time we are actually not in control of our own
actions.
c. Behaviors originate within a person but can be influenced by
outside factors.
d. We are at the whim of our genetics, and must act as our
inheritance determines.
2. Which of the following is correct about the relation between personality
and culture?
a. Because personality is concerned with the person, personality
psychologists are not interested in cultural differences.
b. Most studies to date find few if any significant cross-cultural
differences in personality phenomena.
c. People and their personalities exist within a cultural context.
d. Individual differences in personality can be found only in
individualistic cultures.
3. Most of the research on personality reported in the textbook is based
on studies with people
a. from individualistic cultures.
b. from collectivist cultures.
c. with a strong sense of self.
d. who prefer cooperation to competition.
4. A researcher maintains that a person’s self-esteem level is largely
inherited from his or her parents. From this, she derives the prediction
that children with low self-esteem probably come from homes where
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, one or both parents have low self-esteem. In this case, the formal
prediction is the
a. theory.
b. hypothesis.
c. independent variable.
d. dependent variable.
5. A psychologist is working with a patient who suffers from a very rare
disorder. Which type of research is the psychologist likely to use?
a. Laboratory research
b. Survey research
c. Case study
d. Replication
6. A reliable test
a. measures what it was designed to measure.
b. measures what it measures consistently.
c. has good validity.
d. measures many different concepts at once.
7. Which of the following is a problem of test validity?
a. When test responses are depend on recent events.
b. When test questions are vague.
c. When test responses do not reflect the hypothetical constructs
being measured.
d. When similar test responses cannot be obtained in a second
testing.
8. Information about where you parked your car or the name of an uncle
who you rarely see is probably stored in which part of the mind,
according to Freud’s topographic model?
a. Conscious b.
Preconscious
c. Unconscious
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