Personality Psychology: How Much You Know? Quiz
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- 1.What does the term continuity refer to?
- A.
How a person behaves over time
- B.
How a person behaves in different situations
- 2.What does the term constancy refer to?
- A.
How a person behaves over time
- B.
How a person behaves in different situations
- 3.What does the term dynamic organization refer to?
- A.
The relationship between Unconscious and Conscious
- B.
The relationship between Id, Ego and Superego
- C.
Personality is not static.
- 4.If a research starts without a theory, it is called __________ and it is ___________
- 5.A theory is good (according to Campbell) if
- A.
It is comprehensive,parsimonious, falsifiable, productive
- B.
It has good construct validity and convergent validity
- 6.Who was Francis Galton?
- A.
The father of psychoanalysis
- B.
Father of individual differences and the pioneer of correllation
- C.
The pioneer of evolutionary psychology
- 7.When is a test reliable?
- A.
When it measures what it is supposed to
- B.
When it has good face validity
- C.
When it is dependable
- 8.A test that is _____ may be _______, but a test that is ______ may not be _____ options: valid, invalid, reliable, unreliable
- 9.What is an example for a random error?
- A.
Weather, decoding error
- B.
Depression, anxiety
- 10.The reliability of a measure lies between
- A.
.1-.5
- B.
.01-.05
- C.
0-1
- 11.What is the actual score of a construct?
- A.
(Mental age / Chronological age) x 100
- B.
The true score + error
- C.
.05
- 12.The Cronback alpha is very good if
- A.
>0.9
- B.
- C.
.8-.9
- 13.What is criterion validity?
- A.
If the test measures what it is supposed to
- B.
If the test measures what it is not supposed to
- C.
If the test correlates with a similar measure
- D.
If the test results are correlated to a similar relevant variable
- 14.A test has convergent validity.
- A.
If it measures what it is supposed to
- B.
If it measures what it is not supposed to
- C.
If it correlates with a similar measure
- D.
If we want to correllate test scores and criterion scores at the same time
- 15.What is discriminant validity
- A.
If the test scores correllate with another measure it is supposed to correlate with
- B.
If a measure does not correllate with a measure it is not supposed to correlate with
- C.
If the measure correlates with another relevant variable
- 16.What is concurrent validity?
- A.
If scores correlate with other measure they are supposed to correlate with
- B.
If we want to correlate test scores and criterion scores at the same time
- 17.All traits are the same in every person. They each have the same meaning to everybody. This statement is
- A.
Evolutionary
- B.
Egocentric
- C.
Nomothetic
- D.
Idiographic
- 18.There are as many traits as there are people. one trait may be posessed by only one person. This statement is
- A.
Evolutionary
- B.
Egocentric
- C.
Nomothetic
- D.
Idiographic
- 19.The trait theory is
- A.
Dicontinuous, qualitative, catergorical
- B.
Continuous, quantitative, ordinal
- C.
Discontinuous, quantitative,nominal
- D.
Continuous, qualitative, catergorical
- 20.Who identified the two main personality traits, extroversion and introversion
- A.
Allport
- B.
Gordon
- C.
Eysenck
- D.
Jung
- 21.The MBTI is used to measure what?
- A.
Intelligence
- B.
Introversion/Extroversion
- C.
Mental age
- D.
Depression/Anxiety
- 22.Eysencks two supertraits were
- A.
Extroversion/ introversion, Emotional stability/neuroticism
- B.
Extroversion/ introversion, Emotional stability/psychoticism
- C.
Extroversion/ introversion, Regression/neuroticism
- 23.PLease Check the correct EYSENCKS GIANT THREE
- A.
Openness
- B.
Extroversion
- C.
Introversion
- D.
Agreeableness
- E.
Psychoticism
- F.
Neuroticism
- G.
Conscientiousness
- 24.Which measure is applied in clinical councelling to assess clients strenghts, weaknesses etc
- A.
MBTI
- B.
PF16
- C.
MMPI
- 25.In Occupational Pscyhology, which measure is applied?
- A.
MBTI
- B.
MMPI
- C.
SP16
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