PSYC 10004 Sample Practice-Exam-2015 MCQS Personality-Psychology

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Sample Personality Exam Questions (answers at bottom of document)

1. How many trait dimensions did Cattell propose?

a. 2

b. 3

c. 5

d. 16

2. Which statement best describes how Allport and Odbert attempted to define the trait universe?

a. correlational analysis of trait adjectives

b. factor analysis of trait adjectives

c. selection of trait adjectives that describe psychological differences between people

d. selection of trait adjectives that people use to evaluate each other

3. Which is of the following statements about factor analysis is correct?

a. finds groups of variables that have similar meanings

b. finds groups of variables that correlate with one another

c. finds groups of variables that can be factored

d. finds groups of variables that have similar means

4. Which of the following is not an established alternative label for the relevant Big Five factor?

a. Extraversion & “Surgency”

b. Conscientiousness & “Morality”

c. Neuroticism & “Emotional instability”

d. Openness to Experience & “Culture”

5. Which of the following statements correctly describes the relationships between Big Five traits and emotion dimensions?

a. Extraversion is related to more positive affect and Neuroticism to more negative affect

b. Extraversion is related to more positive affect and Neuroticism to less positive affect

c. Extraversion is related to less negative affect and Neuroticism to less positive affect

d. Extraversion is related to less negative affect and Neuroticism to more negative affect

6. Which of the following statements about Eysenck’s and Gray’s theories is incorrect?

a. For Eysenck, Neuroticism is related to limbic system reactivity.

b. For Gray, the “behavioural activation system” is linked to sensitivity to reward and pleasure.

c. For Gray, Impulsivity involves having a weak “behavioural inhibition system”.

d. Gray’s Anxiety dimension corresponds to a mixture of Neuroticism and Introversion in Eysenck’s system.

7. Which of the following statements about traits and values is incorrect?

a. the structure of values appears to differ across cultures more than the structure of traits

b. values are cognitions, traits are not

c. traits appear to have more dimensions than values

d. unlike traits, values are inherently desirable to the person who has them

8. Which of the following is NOT one of the six virtue classes in the VIA classification of strengths?

a. Justice

b. Transcendence

c. Humanity

d. Creativity

9. Which two vocational interest types are next to one another in Holland’s model?

a. Realistic & Enterprising

b. Conventional & Social

c. Artistic & Investigative

d. Realistic & Artistic

10. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding biological research and theory

on personality?

a. extraverts’ brains are typically over-stimulated

b. shared environmental factors are more important than nonshared factors

c. the heritability of personality traits is sometimes calculated from twin studies

d. 2D:4D digit ratio research shows the importance of circulating levels of neurotransmitters in the brain

11. Which of the following statements about Eysenck’s work on personality is correct?

a. Introverts have highly arousable autonomic nervous systems

b. Neuroticism is associated with stimulus hunger

c. Extraverts tend to like stimulant drugs more than Introverts

d. High levels of Psychoticism put people at risk of depression

12. Roughly what proportion of the variability in most personality traits tends to be heritable?

a. 20%

b. 40%

c. 60%

d. 80%

13. Which Freudian defence mechanism does this statement illustrate: “I’m not jealous, you are”?

a. projection

b. repression

c. sublimation

d. denial

14. Which of the following is CORRECT about Freud’s genetic model of personality?

a. the anal stage takes place in the first two years of life.

b. it recognises that personality has a large heritable component.

c. fixations in the oral stage can lead to passivity and dependency.

d. it has received extensive empirical support from developmental psychologists.

15. One of these four lists contains concepts from Freud’s topographic, structural and genetic models, in that order. Which is it?

a. Unconscious, ego, repression

b. Unconscious, id, reaction formation

c. Preconscious, superego, regression

d. Preconscious, superfly, fixation

16. Psychoanalytic theory is NOT often criticized for which of the following?

a. being unfalsifiable

b. being unscientific

c. being deterministic

d. being simplistic

17. Which of the following statements about cognitive approaches to personality is correct?

a. the repertory grid assesses people on a standard set of personal constructs

b. pessimistic explanatory style involves explaining negative events using internal, stable and global causes

c. self-complexity has repeatedly been shown to protect against depression

d. emotional intelligence is a component of verbal intelligence

18. Which of the following is an external, unstable attribution for why something happened to a person?

a. fate

b. the weather

c. hard work

d. bad mood

19. Which of the following statements about research on the self is incorrect?

a. High self-complexity buffers people against stressful life events

b. High self-complexity is associated with having more self-aspects with less overlap

c. Self-esteem is more a side-effect of achievement than a cause of it

d. Average self-esteem levels may be rising in Western societies

20. Which of the following does NOT accurately reflect research on self-esteem?

a. it is more likely to be a byproduct of academic achievement than a cause of it

b. it makes people secure so that they are less likely to act aggressively when they are insulted.

c. having stable self-esteem may be more important than having high self esteem.

d. defensive self-esteem involves having high explicit self-esteem but low implicit self-esteem.

21. Which of the following forms of coping illustrates the indicated kind of coping

strategy?

a. Emotion-focused: attacking a person who is making you unhappy

b. Problem-focused: recognizing that an issue is causing you difficulties

c. Emotion-focused: imagining that a problem will just go away

d. Problem-focused: actively trying to change how you feel about a stressor

22. Which of the following statements about personality change is NOT correct?

a. mean levels of internal attribution have increased in recent decades

b. there is much evidence of mean level change in adulthood

c. rank order stability is measured by correlation coefficients

d. rank order stability increases with age

23. Which of the following statements about rank-order stability of personality is NOT correct?

a. it may be partially due to environmental selection (i.e., people selecting environments that support their traits).

b. it increases with age.

c. it is incompatible with evidence that the mean levels of Big Five traits change with increasing age.

d. it is measured by re-test correlations in longitudinal studies.

24. According to Erikson, what contrasts with Industry in one of his eight stages?

a. Shame & doubt

b. Isolation

c. Guilt

d. Inferiority

25. Which statement about “lay theories” of personality is false?

a. entity theorists believe personality is not malleable

b. entity theorists stereotype people more than incremental theorists

c. incremental theorists hold a ‘dynamic’ view of personality

d. incremental theorists attribute differences between social groups to innate factors

26 . The items in a personality test correlate strongly with one another. What kind of reliability or validity does this imply?

a. convergent validity

b. content validity

c. internal consistency

d. retest reliability

27. Which kind of validity or reliability does NOT match the description that follows it?

a. re-test reliability: people get similar scores when they do a test on different occasions.

b. discriminant validity: a test of one personality characteristic does not correlate with tests that measure different characteristics.

c. convergent validity: people get similar scores on a test when different people administer it to them.

d. internal consistency: the items in the test all correlate with one another.

28. Which kind of validity scale is designed to detect random patterns of responding on a personality inventory?

a. infrequency scale

b. incompatibility scale

c. lie scale

d. defensiveness scale

29. Which of the following is NOT a weakness of many projective personality tests?

a. poor predictive validity

b. poor inter-rater reliability

c. susceptible to faking good bias

d. susceptible to poor incremental validity relative to inventories

30. Which of these potential flaws of psychobiographies is correctly defined?

a. originology: over-emphasis on early life events in explaining the person

b. pathography: insufficiently empathic interpretation of the person

c. determinism: focussing too much on a single factor in explaining the person

d. hagiography: portrayal of the person as extremely ugly

  

SOCIAL COGNITION

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1. Students will use the Keiser University Online Library to find a minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles (including articles found during previous weeks IF they apply to the student’s topic).  All articles must be from Psychology Journals and address a psychological construct (i.e., topic).

2. For the initial discussion post, design an outline that will be used to create the Literature Review required as part of the Week 5-7 project.  Use the following template when posting an outline for your initial discussion.

3. Students will then improve the outline during the week with the help of other students and the Professor.  Once completed, students will cut/paste the outline information and submit it as part of their Week 5 assignment, along with their annotated bibliography.

4. Attach the articles to your initial discussion post.

When responding to other students this week, help each other develop a precise topic for the Week 5-7 project.  Provide specific feedback including examples.  The following template can be used this week to create the initial discussion post.

NOTE: as always for every discussion and assignment, students must properly cite resources in-text and in a “References” list.

DISCUSSION OUTLINE TEMPLATE (after revisions, cut and paste the final outline and submit as part of the Week 5 assignment):

Hello Class,

Introduction (do not actually create a section heading called Introduction as that is assumed): provide a short paragraph introducing the reader to the main topic and the key concepts that will be addressed in the literature review assignment (Weeks 5-7).

Theme One (create a new section heading based on your topic theme): describe in 2-3 words the first main topic of your literature review. Next, briefly (4-5 sentences) describe the information you will discuss in your Literature Review paper and cite articles that will support your discussion.

EXAMPLE:  imagine a student’s topic is “Writing a Literature Review Strategies for Psychology Graduate Students”.  The first section might be “Annotated Bibliography and Outline” because that is a main theme found in the literature (DO NOT USE THIS THEME FOR YOUR PAPER).  The section description could describe how this section will define and explain the concepts (Smith, 2001; Mohammed, 2015).  The section description could also include, for example, how Section One will address how an outline and an annotated bibliography is created and formatted (Chang, 2017; Rodriguez, 2014; Conner, 2000).

Theme Two (create a new section heading based on your topic theme): describe in 2-3 words the second main topic of your literature review. Next, briefly (4-5 sentences) describe the information you will discuss in your LIterature Review paper and cite articles that will support your discussion.

Theme Three if you find one

Conclusion (a discussion and/or Conclusion section is an appropriate section heading): summarize the discussion and add comments addressing how the outline and subsequent literature review can still be improved.  Perhaps even ask for help by addressing specific questions or concerns.  For example, students might state “one of the challenges with this outline is there appears to be limited research on the topic of creating an annotated bibliography”.  This comment could help other students and the Professor provide the student with useful feedback.

References (centered on new page)

list all references included in the outline

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PSY 630 Psychopharmacology Quiz 4 (30 minutes for 5 questions)

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  Pain, Schizophrenia, and Depression

Prior to accessing this quiz, read the required chapters from the text and review the required articles for this week. This quiz assesses your understanding of the topics covered in Week Four, which include depression, schizophrenia, and pain. This quiz consists of five multiple-choice questions and is worth 5% of your course grade.

Select the best possible answer for each question. You will be allowed 60 minutes to complete the quiz once you begin. Once you open the quiz, you must finish it in one sitting. You will have two attempts to take the quiz. If multiple attempts are made, the highest grade will be recorded. Click on the Take the Quiz button when you are ready to start this exam. When finished, click on Submit Quiz.

Nature or Nurture: Genetic similarities and differences

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Watch either of the following films (select one; each 52 min):  Secret Life of Twins: Natural Similarities or Secret Life of Twins: Nurtured Differences

First, share which film you elected to view. 

Highlight 3 significant ideas or points made in the film about our understanding of human development and how it is influenced by either genes (nature) or experience (nurture).  Compare and contrast the key points you presented with information in Chapter 2 of the text.  Are the ideas in the film supported by factual information in the text, or are they contrasted, or contradicted in some way?  

What additional thoughts and questions do these ideas raise about your understanding of the influence of either nature (biology) or nurture (experience/environment) on development overall?  Did the information from the film and/or text confirm thoughts and you already held about the influence of nature v. nurture, or did it challenge your assumptions?  Explain. Discussion

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SO338 Self And Society Mid-Term Exam – Answers In Paragraph Form

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The exam consists of 15 short answer questions. Some questions ask for a definition of a concept while others ask for application and/or analysis. Please answer each of the following questions in paragraph form with the question numbers labeled and submit the exam.   Questions How does a football game reflect a symbolic reality? How is this reality communicated and what are some of the symbols? What is socialization? How does this concept relate to the nature/nurture debate? Define “rules of denial” and give an empirical example of this concept from your own interactions. What is emotion work or management? What is the difference between surface and deep acting? Select one of the articles that address feeling rules. What is the emotion and what is the feeling norm? How is the feeling rule learned? What does it mean to say bodies are “disciplined”? What are gendered bodily practices and how are these practices learned? How is emotional management a part of gender identity? What role does emotion work play in the maintenance differences and inequalities between men and women? Provide a specific example to support your position. What is an example of culture shaping your own bodily experience? How are cultural meaning inscribed onto the body in your example? Describe the ways in which individuals have control over bodily practices, but are also limited in the freedom of expression. Explain how this paradox connects to the commodification of culture. What is the “I” and “Me”? What is the generalized other? What does it mean to say the self is social? What theoretical perspective does this statement represent? Explain the “model minority stereotype” and describe how this cultural value impacted the identity development of the Cambodian American students. According to Gubrium and Holstein, how do new forms of interaction and community building impact the social construction of the self?

week four assignment psy650

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Week 4 – Assignment            

Case Analysis – Treatment Format Prior to beginning work on this week’s journal, read the PSY650 Week Four Treatment Plan , Case 15: Borderline Personality Disorder in Gorenstein and Comer (2014), and Borderline Personality Disorder in Sneed et al., . (2012). Please also read the Rizvi, et al. (2013), An Overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Professional Psychologists, a Harned, et al.  (2013), treatment Preference Among Suicidal and Self-Injuring Women with Borderline Personality Disorder and PTSD,” Miller (2006), Telehealth Issues in Consulting Psychology Practice, a  and Luxton, et al. (2011), “mHealth for Mental Health: Integrating Smartphone Technology in Behavioral Healthcare  articles. Assess the evidence-based practices implemented in this case study. In your paper, include the following. Explain the connection between each theoretical orientation used by Dr. Banks€™s and the interventions utilized in the case. Describe the concept of dialectical behavior therapy, being sure to include the six main points of this type of treatment. Explain Dr. Banks’s primary goal during the pre-treatment stage and how Dr. Banks related this to Karen in her initial therapy sessions. Describe the two formats that Dr. Banks told Karen would be part of her treatment program. Describe the focus of the second and third stages of treatment. Assume the role of a consulting clinical or counseling psychologist on this case, and recommend at least one technology-based e-therapy tool that would be useful. Explain liability issues related to delivering e-therapy consultation, supporting your response with information from the Miller (2006), telehealth Issues in Consulting Psychology Practice  article. Evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment interventions implemented by Dr. Banks supporting your statements with information from the case and two to three peer-reviewed articles from the Ashford University Library, in addition to those required for this week. Recommend three additional treatment interventions that would be appropriate in this case. Use information from the Sneed, Fertuck, Kanellopoulos, and Culang-Reinlieb (2012), borderline Personality Disorder â article to help support your recommendations. Justify your selections with information from the case. The Case Analysis Treatment Format Must be 4 to 5 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..Must include a separate title page with the following: Title of paper Student as  name Course name and number Instructor as name Date submitted Must use at least two peer-reviewed sources from the Ashford University Library in addition to the article required for this week. Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Can this be done by 1pm tomorrow? 9/17/2019

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In the field of human services, cases may sometimes seem more direct than they truly are, posing challenges in defining problems for clients. It is important, however, to recognize the multidimensionality of clients’ needs in order to provide optimal service in these situations. For this Discussion, review the media program “Introduction to the Case Study” for an overview by Dr. Barbara Benoliel. Then, review the media program, “The Situation: Chapter 1.” As you consider the overt issues of the case and the multidimensionality of the specific client’s needs, reflect on how these factors and the changing nature of human services might influence how incidents are defined.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post a description of how the domestic dispute incident was defined in the media presentation. Then, explain how you would prefer to see this incident defined. Finally, explain how the changing nature of helping in human services might impact the definition of the incident and why.

Assignment 2: LASA 1: Issues in Premarital Counseling

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i need this before 12 am tonight 5 extra for you so i will pay 12 plus 5 17.00 Unit 3: Module 3 – M3 Assignment 2

  

Assignment 2: LASA 1: Issues in Premarital Counseling

Steve has asked his girlfriend Nadia to marry him. They dated for a year after meeting in college at a fraternity party. Nadia has been sexually intimate with one other boyfriend, while Steve has had multiple partners.  Both are American, but Nadia’s grandparents are originally from Egypt. Despite different religious backgrounds (Steve is Methodist; Nadia was raised as a Muslim) and cultures, they have a lot in common and both sets of parents are very happy about their engagement. As part of their preparation, they have begun premarital counseling. As Steve and Nadia’s counselor, you know that a discussion of sexuality will be important to their marital success.Describe the important aspects of sexuality (such as arousal and response, intimacy, contraception, etc.) that Nadia and Steve need to discuss. Remember to consider psychological/emotional as well as physical factors.Include a discussion of at least 1 theoretical perspective that you have learned about in this course (e.g., Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love, Masters and Johnson’s work, etc.).What risk factors pertaining to health can you infer might be present from the scenario? What can the couple do to minimize these risks?How will you show cultural competence during your sessions (i.e., what cultural issues should you consider)?

By Wednesday, November 25, 2015 , write an essay that is 3-5 pages in length. Also include a cover page and reference list. Remember to support your arguments with information drawn from the online content, the textbook, and at least one other credible, scholarly source to substantiate the points you are making. You can use relevant Web sites or journal articles as sources for your presentation, but make sure that they are from reputable web and print sources such as the AU online library, or information from .org, .net, or .edu sites as opposed to .com. Please avoid Wikipedia.

Apply APA standards to for writing and citations to your work.

The paper should be double-spaced 12-point typescript, Times Roman font, with 1-inch margins all around, and free from grammatical errors.Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum Points Describe the important aspects of sexuality that Nadia and Steve need to discuss. Remember to consider psychological/emotional as well as physical factors. (CO3)40Include a discussion of at least 1 theoretical perspective that you have learned about in this course (e.g., Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love, Masters and Johnson’s work, etc.). (CO2)40What risk factors pertaining to health can you infer might be present from the scenario? What can the couple do to minimize these risks? (CO3)40How will you show cultural competence during your sessions (i.e., what cultural issues should you consider)?(CO1)36Organization (12 points):

Introduction, Thesis, Transitions, and Conclusion

Usage and Mechanics (4 points):

Grammar, Spelling, and Sentence structure

APA Elements (12 points):

Attribution, Paraphrasing, and Quotations

Style (16 points):

Audience, and Word Choice44Total: 200

 

Final Social Policy Analysis

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Ok, so this some crazy idea that the instructor come up with to keep us focus and on track. In the document that I sent you there are three paper that I compiled on one document. The purpose of this assignment is for the me to demonstrate knowledge of policy analysis. I had to select a social problem (Part I) that I am interested in and then find a policy related to that problem. Then I had to follow the process outlined below to define the social policy and critically analyze the selected policy. This assignment will be broken down into smaller, manageable parts to both keep you on track and to offer feedback along the way (details below). The smaller parts will be revised and submitted as part of the larger product described below. The final Social Policy Analysis paper will take the following form

Part I. Defining the Social Problem

Part II. Background/Context of the Problem

Part III. Policy Analysis 

Part IV. Evaluation and Conclusion (Only included in the final paper)

So, Part 1,2,3 where is smaller parts that will create the final paper

 PLEASE READ THE Rubric, INSTRUCTION AND THE INSTRUCTORS COMMENT

More detail in in the instruction 

RUBRIC IS ALSO INCLUDED