AP PSYCH: Intelligence & Personality

Question 1

Juan has a huge crush on Sally, but instead of being friendly, he is rude to her:

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Reaction formation

Question 2

Students who do well on college entrance exams generally do well in college. These exams have:

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predictive validity

Question 3

The Flynn effect is finding that:

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intelligence seems to increase with every generation

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT one of Freud's psychosexual stages of development?

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Vaginal

Question 5

Achievement tests are to aptitude tests as:

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measurement is to prediction

Question 6

What kind of psychologist would be most likely to use a projective personality assessment?

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Psychoanalytic

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?

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Practical

Question 8

A teacher who successfully represents the whole year's work on the final exam has achieves:

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content validity

Question 9

Which student did Mrs. Bowers do the "moonwalk" with after school last week?

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Nora

Question 10

Which of the following represents the "executive" & partially conscious part of personality?

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Ego

Question 11

According to Feud, which part of the mind acts as a person's conscience?

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Superego

Question 12

One of your classmates remarks, "Mary is all id". This means"

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Mary pursues immediate gratification

Question 13

Ability to perceive, understand, manage, and use emotions is called:

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Emotional Intelligence

Question 14

In order to be considered as having an intellectual disability:

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IQ score of 70 and trouble with the demands of life

Question 15

Which is NOT one of the big give personality traits?

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Honesty

Question 16

Which describes the extent to which a test samples the behavior that is of interest:

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Content Validity

Question 17

Gardner concluded that a person can score extremely low in some areas and high in others:

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Savant Syndrome

Question 18

Which type of test consists of interpreting inkblots?

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Rorschach

Question 19

Redirecting one's unacceptable urges into more socially acceptable pursuits best defines:

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Sublimation

Question 20

Which would be true of a thermometer that always reads 3 degrees off:

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It is reliable but not valid

Question 21

Heritability of intelligence refers to:

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extent which a person's intelligence is caused by genetics

Question 22

Which Neo-Freudian theorist stated that we have a collective unconscious?

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Carl Jung

Question 23

Jamie sucked his thumb until age 8. He smokes now. He is having a(n):

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Oral Fixation

Question 24

Someone who has an external locus of control is likely to have a:

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belief in luck

Question 25

If a test is reliable, it means that it:

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Yields Consistent Results

Question 26

Which defense mechanism does Freud say underlies all of the defense mechanisms?

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Repression

Question 27

Spearman argued that intelligence could be boiled down to one ability known as:

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g.

Question 28

Dr. Li asks her clients to interpret ambiguous pictures of people in various settings. This is

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TAT

Question 29

Paul takes a test in the army to see if he would make a good pilot. Such as test is a(n)?

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Aptitude Test

Question 30

belief that personality is created by the interaction between person, behavior, and environ

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Reciprocal Determinism

AP PSYCH: Intelligence & Personality

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AP PSYCH: Intelligence & Personality

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