Psychology: Unit 9 Review

Question 1

Measure a person's skills and the knowledge they have in a specific academic area

Accepted Answer

Achievement tests

Question 2

Both biological and psychological views of gender typing can help us understand why males and females behave as they do

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

A view of oneself as an individual

Accepted Answer

Self-concept

Question 4

The process by which people learn to conform to gender roles

Accepted Answer

gender typing

Question 5

True or False: You are going to do GREAT on the Unit 9 Test

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Which of the following theories says that individual differences are learned through observation

Accepted Answer

Social Learning

Question 7

The process of adapting to a new or different culture

Accepted Answer

Acculturation

Question 8

True or False: No important life decisions should be made based on the outcome interest inventories

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

An aspect of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable

Accepted Answer

Trait

Question 10

True or False: It is most common for us to assume a person has certain traits based on behavior

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

The "big five" personality traits are.....

Accepted Answer

openess, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuraticism

Question 12

Present test takers with a standardized group of test items in the form of a questionnaire

Accepted Answer

Objective tests

Question 13

An Individual’s personality consists of his or her

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 14

True or False: Hippocrates biological theory has sufficient scientific evidence

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

True or False: Behaviorists that people are at the mercy of their environment

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

A test that is administered and scored the same way every time

Accepted Answer

Standardized test

Question 17

Many differences between men and women appear to be due largely to

Accepted Answer

Both Red and Yellow

Question 18

True or False: The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) is a general aptitude test

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

True or False: Modern trait theory focuses on describing traits rather than tracing their origins

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Ancient Greeks believed that the body consists of fluids called ___________

Accepted Answer

humors

Question 21

Psychological tests assess.....

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 22

True or False: Most test you have taken in school have probably been achievement tests

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Refers to beliefs people have about themselves

Accepted Answer

Self-efficacy expectations

Question 24

True or False: Research has also shown that gender roles do not vary from culture to culture

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

process by which people learn the socially desirable behaviors of their culture & adopt them as part of personality.

Accepted Answer

Socializationi

Psychology: Unit 9 Review

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Psychology: Unit 9 Review

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