Dr. Akita is designing a test to measure sociability. She writes items that seem directly
and obviously related to sociability, such as "I like to go to parties" or "I enjoy the
company of other people." Which method of test construction is Dr. Akita using? -
️️C. Rational method
Which of t...
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Dr. Akita is designing a test to measure sociability. She writes items that seem directly
and obviously related to sociability, such as "I like to go to parties" or "I enjoy the
company of other people." Which method of test construction is Dr. Akita using? -
✔️✔️C. Rational method
Which of the following is NOT one of the conditions that must hold for an S-data
personality test to work? - ✔️✔️D. The test must contain both positively and negatively
worded items.
Dr. Garcia wants to measure the earliest autobiographical memories of the participants
in her project. She would most likely obtain ________ data. - ✔️✔️C. S- Data
A Major advantage of S data is that: - ✔️✔️C. you are the world's best expert about
your own personality.
A research strategy that involves gathering as many different measurements as you can
of a construct and determining if they are correlated is called: - ✔️✔️A. construct
validation
A personality description of a client by her or his therapist is an example of ________
data. - ✔️✔️C. i-data
If you were shown an inkblot and asked to describe what you saw, you would be taking
the: - ✔️✔️C. Rorschach test.
Which of the following is an example of L data? - ✔️✔️C. the number of times Terry
has been hospitalized
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of B data? - ✔️✔️D. Psychologists can
construct situations to elicit particular behaviors.
The effects of irrelevant influences that might lessen your ability to see the trait or state
you are trying to measure are called: - ✔️✔️A. measurement error
For any rationally constructed personality scale to work, it must satisfy which of the
following conditions? - ✔️✔️D. All of the above.
Which of the following is not part of "the psychological triad" that comprises personality?
a. behavior b. thought c. mental health d. feelings - ✔️✔️c. mental health
, A disadvantage of the experimental method is that: - ✔️✔️D. all of the above
If there is a positive correlation between extraversion and risk taking, then the: -
✔️✔️B. higher a person's extraversion score, the more risks he or she is likely to take.
The sole basis by which items are selected for empirically derived personality scales are
whether: - ✔️✔️D. they are answered differently by different kinds of people.
Research regarding the person-situation debate indicates that ______ are relevant to
how people will act under specific circumstances and that _____ are better for
describing how people act in general. - ✔️✔️D. situational variables; personality traits.
All projective tests: - ✔️✔️A. involve stimuli with no clear meaning.
The tendency of a group of people who lived at a particular time to be different in some
way from those who lived earlier or later is called by psychologists: - ✔️✔️B. a cohort
effect
Reliability is a(n) _______ condition for validity. - ✔️✔️B. necessary but not sufficient.
Research regarding the person-situation debate indicates that ______ are relevant to
how people will act under specific circumstances and that ____ are better for describing
how people act in general. - ✔️✔️D. situational variables; personality traits
What is the primary criterion for item selection in the empirical method of test
construction? - ✔️✔️B. whether or not the item discriminates between 2 known groups
Proponents of projective tests argue that they are the best measure of: - ✔️✔️C.
unconscious material.
The idea that traits are less important than immediate circumstances in determining
behavior is known as: - ✔️✔️B. situationism.
which of the following is NOT a limitation of the factor analytic approach? - ✔️✔️C. The
factors are only as good as the criterion groups used to validate the factors.
Jane recently completed the ACME Intelligence Test, a new test that is designed to
measure her IQ. She took the test twice and each time received an IQ score of 130,
which the test administrator told her indicates that she is extremely intelligent. However,
when Jane completed the Stanford-Binet and the WAIS (two well-established
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