Intelligence & Personality

Question 1

Binet's early intelligence test predicts:

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how well kids will do in school

Question 2

What do you call questionnaires that cover a wide range of feelings in order to assess traits?

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personality inventories

Question 3

Individuals who score low on intelligence but have an area of exceptional ability have:

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savant syndrome

Question 4

What is the best meaning of self-actualization?

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Reaching your full potential

Question 5

If you're from a collectivist culture, you are more willing to:

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put a group need before your own needs

Question 6

When IQ test scores in recent years are higher than test scores a decade ago is known as the --

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Flynn effect

Question 7

Albert Bandura came up with the ___________ , or how our traits interact with our environment.

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social-cognitive perspective

Question 8

Standardized tests are required to be multiple choice

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False

Question 9

Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as:

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Measurement is to prediction.

Question 10

The interaction between a person, his or her behavior, and the environment is known as:

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reciprocal determinism

Question 11

According to Freud, this part of the psyche acts the most like your conscience:

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superego

Question 12

Charles Spearman's g indicates:

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general intelligence

Question 13

That twins separated at birth have identical intelligence scores suggests that intelligence:

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is heritable

Question 14

What would be true of a clock that always reads three minutes off?

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It is reliable but not valid.

Question 15

If you say someone is "all id," it means that he or she:

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seeks instant gratification

Question 16

Interpreting ambiguous pictures of people in various settings is this type of personality test:

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thematic apperception test

Question 17

If you attribute all of your own success to yourself and your failures to others, you exemplify

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self-serving bias

Question 18

Sigmund Freud's approach to personality was called:

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psychoanalysis

Question 19

If a test is reliable, it:

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has consistent results

Question 20

Men score higher than women on tests of:

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spatial intelligence

Question 21

abstract reasoning is to factual knowledge as

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fluid intelligence is to crystallized intelligence

Question 22

Ferdie sucked his thumb until high school. Now, he has a preoccupation with gum. He has:

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an oral fixation

Question 23

The ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions is called:

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interpersonal intelligence

Question 24

Autism is an example of

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Savant Syndrome

Question 25

You feel like everyone noticed the screw-up in your speech. This the ________ in action.

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spotlight effect

Question 26

You work as a cashier, but you take a test to see if you would be a good manager. This is a(n):

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aptitude test

Question 27

Factor analysis = statistical technique researchers use to cluster similar traits together

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True

Question 28

Which is NOT one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

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practical

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