Week One Quiz

Using the Binomial Effect Size Display, if there is a correlation of .30 between drinking alcohol and the likelihood of having a car accident, then out of 100 people who have been drinking, you would expect ________ of them to have an accident.

65

________ theories of personality apply the insights and methods derived from the study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of personality.

Cognitive

Personality psychology has a variety of theoretical perspectives that are sometimes seen as competing with each other. Regarding this diversity, a major theme of this textbook is:

Great strengths are usually great weaknesses.

A researcher asks parents to report on the personality characteristics of their children. This is an example of ________ data.

I

Records of employee absenteeism are what type of data?

L

Dr. Garcia wants to measure the earliest autobiographical memories of the participants in her project. She would most likely obtain ________ data.

S

When someone is high in narcissism, what type of data about this person might be the least trustworthy?

S

________ data are the most frequently used basis for personality assessment.

S

If Dr. O'Connell wants to learn about Laura, why might Dr. O'Connell want to avoid using S data?

The person supplying the S data may not want to or be able to provide accurate reports about Laura.

Which of the following is NOT a typical argument used to justify deception in psychological research?

The use of deception actually educates participants about ethical concerns in research.

Psychologists following the phenomenological approach ________.

are concerned with our conscious experience of the world and the consequences of having free will

According to the text, the tendency of a group of people who lived at a particular time to differ in some way from those who lived earlier or later is called a ________.

cohort effect

As part of a research project, a participant uses a smart phone application that signals her at random times throughout the day. At those times, the application presents a series of questions for her to answer regarding her current activities. This is an example of ________ data.

experience sampling

Which design is best suited for addressing the third-variable problem?

experimental

The unique mandate of personality psychologists is to attempt to ________.

explain whole, functioning persons and real life concerns

The fact that much of modern empirical research in psychology has been based on white, middle-class college sophomores may reduce the ________ of psychological research.

generalizability

What two topics are covered under the phenomenological approach?

humanistic and cross-cultural perspectives on personality

If you can get the same answer repeatedly, then your measure is ________.

reliable

Egon Brunswik's concept that research should be designed to sample across all of the domains (e.g., people, methods, and stimuli) to which the investigator wishes to apply the results is referred to as ________.

representative design

According to the text, the goal of a scientific education is ________.

to teach what is known and how to find out what is not yet known