question archive Number 1Newer theories in personalty psychology tend to ___________ than other theories
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Number 1Newer theories in personalty psychology tend to ___________ than other theories.
A. Explain more aspects of personalty
B. Explain fewer aspects of personality
C. Rely more on case studies
D. Be less parsimonious
Number 2
Henry Muarry used the term _______ to describe efforts to understand the whole person.
A. Biographical research
B. Personlogy
C. Introspection
D. Macro-assessment
Number 3
___________ validity is generally seen as the most important means of establishing construct validity.
A. Criterion
B. Discriminant
C. Face
D. Covergent
Number 4
Observer ratings can be based on
A. Interviews in which people talk about themselves.
B. Direct observations of overt action.
C. Interviews in which people talk about something other than themselves
D. All of the above
Number 5
Cattell's approach to understanding personality can be best be described as
A. Theortical
B. Rational
C. Empirical
D. Psychoanalytic
Number 6
According to Sheldon, each body characteristic refects
A. An overemphasis on one of the layers of the embryo.
B. The interaction between genetically determined psychology and enivormental pressure.
C. Brainwave activity
D. Hermone level fluctuations.
Number 7.
The pyschological conflict that occurs during the preaschool (about ages 3-5) is called:
A. Trust versus mistrust
B. Industry versus inferiority
C. Autonomy versus shame
D. Initiative versus guilt.
Number 8.
when exposure to violent to stumli no longer triggers feelings of shock and upset in individuals, they are considered ____
to violence.
A. Susceptible
B. Desensitized
C. Immune
D. All of the above
Number 9.
Schema-based biases
A. Are no longer thought to exist
B. Refer to the idea that it's easier to remember shocking information that clashes with our schemas
C. Can perpetuate themselves
D. None of the above
Number 10.
The psychoanalytical view assumes that people derive stable personalty quality from:
A. Childhood pyschosexual crises
B. Parental emotional crisis
C. The Oedipal complex
D. Poor attachment