Intelligence & Personality, OH MY!

Question 1

An athlete who continues to compete rather than stopping for food and rest is violating:

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Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Question 2

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

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is heritable

Question 3

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

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thematic apperception test

Question 4

Which function does the brain's left hemisphere have that its right does not?

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speech

Question 5

Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as:

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Measurement is to prediction.

Question 6

If a test is reliable, it:

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has consistent results

Question 7

Sigmund Freud's approach to personality was called:

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psychoanalysis

Question 8

As the number of people with deadbolts increase, the number of robberies decreases. This is:

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negative correlation

Question 9

You eat bad sushi. Your muscles feel wacky. The bad sushi interferes with your ____ levels.

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acetylcholine

Question 10

Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve says we'll ________ but then ______.

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forget a lot initially; level off over time

Question 11

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 12

What is the most important of Freud's defense mechanisms?

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repression

Question 13

Binet's early intelligence test predicts:

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how well kids will do in school

Question 14

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

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spotlight effect

Question 15

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

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an oral fixation

Question 16

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

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savant syndrome

Question 17

Charles Spearman's g indicates:

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general intelligence

Question 18

Which is NOT one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

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practical

Question 19

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

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emotional intelligence

Question 20

Joe responds to commands from his mother, teacher, and, eventually, all female voices. This is:

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generalization

Question 21

Range is a measure of:

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variation

Question 22

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

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superego

Question 23

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 24

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 25

Men score higher than women on tests of:

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spatial intelligence

Question 26

Kristie likes to collect worms after storms, which depends on a ____ schedule of reinforcement.

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variable interval

Question 27

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

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social-cognitive perspective

Question 28

After learning your new teachers' names, it's hard to remember the old ones. This is due to:

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retroactive interference

Question 29

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

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reciprocal determinism

Question 30

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

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personality inventories

Question 31

Alpha waves are associated with:

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relaxed but awake state

Question 32

It is important to use this kind of sample when you are doing survey research:

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representative

Question 33

What is the best meaning of self-actualization?

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Reaching your full potential

Question 34

With only one eye, you could not use this sight cue:

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convergence

Question 35

Humanistic psych fails to see humanity's capacity for:

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evil

Question 36

You can use opponent process theory to explain:

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color blindness

Question 37

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

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It is reliable but not valid.

Question 38

Jumping up in pain after stepping on a tack is:

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an unconditioned response

Question 39

The teen driver was responsible for the accident rather than the 45-year-old man. This is the:

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representativeness heuristic

Question 40

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

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seeks instant gratification

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