PSY 203T Wk 4 – Week 4 Exam

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PSY 203T Wk 4 - Week 4 Exam
PSY 203T Wk 4 – Week 4 Exam
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PSY 203T Wk 4 – Week 4 Exam

Dahlia is an associate at a prestigious law firm. The associates in the firm generally work until at least 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. each day. This is an element of the firm’s

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  • role.
  • norm.
  • bias.
  • schema.

 

Which of the following is true of behavioral assessment?

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  • It includes a test that consists of a series of pictures about which a person is asked to write a story.
  • It includes projective personality tests, such as the Rorschach test and the Thematic Apperception Test.
  • It mainly involves showing people a vague stimulus related to their behavior and asking them to describe it.
  • It refers to direct measures of one’s behavior that describe char-acteristics indicative of personality.

 

Which of the following sales techniques is based on the norm of reciprocity?

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  • the not-so-free sample technique
  • the door-in-the-face technique
  • the that’s-not-all technique
  • the foot-in-the-door technique

 

Which of the following statements reflects a criticism that has been leveled against the Implicit Association Test?

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  • The test measures only conscious racial attitudes.
  • The biases that the test measures may not affect overtly discriminatory behavior.
  • The test requires people to directly report their racial feelings.
  • The test proves that people cannot be prejudiced if they do not know that they are engaged in it.

 

According to the French psychologist Alfred Binet, which of the following formulas is used to calculate the intelligence quotient or IQ? (CA stands for chronological age, and MA stands for mental age.)

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MACA×100MACA×100

 

  • MA(CA ×100)MA(CA ×100)

CAMA×100CAMA×100

CA(MA ×100)

 

Which of the following explanations is ly paired with the process it reflects?

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  • Obstacles to performance that stem from one’s awareness of society’s stereotypes regarding minority group members—Stereotype vulnerability
  • Behavior being brought in line with a stereotype to reduce the tension created by a discrepancy between the stereotype and one’s own experience—Observational learning
  • High-status individuals, such as celebrities or athletes, receiving reinforcement for reflecting stereotypes in their behavior—Cognitive dissonance
  • A change in behavior in response to the commands of others—Conformity

 

Garner is imaginative and independent and prefers variety, whereas Brandy is conventional and practical and prefers routine. It is most likely that Garner scores high and Brandy scores low on the Big Five personality trait called

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  • agreeableness.
  • openness to experience.
  • neuroticism.
  • extraversion.

 

Which of the following is true of schemas?

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  • Schemas help us predict what others are like on the basis of relatively little information.
  • A schema is rarely susceptible to error.
  • A schema refers to a phenomenon in which a person holds two contradictory attitudes or thoughts.
  • Schemas are usually accurate as our moods affect how we perceive others, and we make judgments based on our moods.

 

Which of the following terms refers to the ability of a psychological test to measure what it is actually designed to measure?

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  • precision
  • consistency
  • reliability
  • validity

 

Blanche is extremely interested in politics and believes that the upcoming election is very important to the future of her country. Blanche would most likely be persuaded by a campaign message relying on

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  • conformity.
  • stereotyping.
  • central route processing.
  • compliance.

 

The ability to think logically, reason abstractly, and solve novel problems, relatively independent of past specific knowledge, is known as ________Blank intelligence.

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  • fluid
  • spatial
  • crystallized
  • experiential

 

Richard, a venture capitalist, funds budding entrepreneurs on the strength of their business plans. When a business plan is detailed, logical, and presented clearly, it is usually easy to convince him and get the required funding. From the given scenario, it is implied that Richard is most likely to use ________Blank to comprehend a message.

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  • social cognition
  • central route processing
  • conformity
  • prejudice

 

Pearl is kind, appreciative, and sympathetic. Ruby is outgoing, talkative, and fun-loving. Pearl most likely scores high on the Big Five dimension of ________Blank, whereas Ruby most likely scores high on ________Blank.

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  • eagerness; cheerfulness
  • openness to experience; agreeableness
  • agreeableness; extraversion
  • extraversion; openness to experience

 

According to Wilde (2011), Mills (2013), Wang et al. (2017), and Applebaum (2016), personality types derived from ________Blank personality approach form the basis for the Myers-Briggs personality test, which is widely used in business and industry.

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  • Karen Horney’s
  • Carl Jung’s
  • Erik Erikson’s
  • Alfred Adler’s

 

Dr. Greene studies the ways to increase the safety of workers on offshore oil platforms. Dr. Greene is a(n)

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  • industrial-organizational psychologist.
  • developmental psychologist.
  • cognitive psychologist.
  • social psychologist.

 

______Blank of behavior are brought about by something in the environment.

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  • Dispositional causes
  • Personality causes
  • Situational causes
  • Internal causes

 

In the context of biological and evolutionary approaches to personality, the basic, innate disposition that emerges early in life is known as

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  • self-efficacy.
  • disparagement.
  • temperament.
  • self-esteem.

 

Laura is 8 years old. Her performance on a series of tasks is equivalent to that of the average 10-year-old. Her intelligence quotient or IQ is

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  • 150.
  • 80.
  • 125.
  • 110.

 

People with ________Blank intellectual disability have deficits in their language and motor skills, and they need to have a certain degree of supervision throughout their lives although they can hold simple jobs.

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  • mild
  • profound
  • severe
  • moderate

 

According to Sternberg, the ________Blank of love involves the initial thoughts that one loves someone and the longer-term feelings of allegiance to maintain love.

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  • passion component
  • decision/commitment component
  • intimacy component
  • closeness component

 

In Asch’s classic conformity studies, participants thought they were taking part in a test of

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  • learning.
  • visual learning.
  • perceptual skills.
  • prison life.

 

The Implicit Association Test was developed because

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  • earlier measures failed to tap into the emotional aspect of racial attitudes.
  • people are very direct and frank while reporting their racial attitudes.
  • people may not be consciously aware of their own racial attitudes.
  • people do not censor their responses regarding their own racial attitudes.

 

Luke, a researcher, develops a psychological test to assess impulsiveness among adults and publishes it online. After a month, he publishes an article in which he presents evidence that college students tend to get essentially the same score if they take the test twice, two months apart. However, when Bianca, Luke’s guide, looks at the questions included in the test, she thinks that they relate to a person’s sociability rather than his or her impulsiveness. In this scenario, Bianca is specifically doubtful of the ________Blank of Luke’s test.

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  • validity
  • reliability
  • measurability
  • objectivity

 

Sets of cognitions about people and social experiences are called

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  • cues.
  • biases.
  • norms.
  • schemas.

 

In order to prevent feeling anxious, Susie convinces herself that she hates thriller movies, whereas she actually likes them on an unconscious level. In the context of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, this scenario illustrates a defense mechanism called

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  • repression.
  • reaction formation.
  • projection.
  • rationalization.