Psych chp 14/15
Vocational intrest iventories
Tests that determine whether people have intrests similair to those people in various lines of work are called__________.
Achievement tests
Tests that measure peoples skills and the knowledge they have in specific academic areas are ______________.
Strong Cambell intrest survey
The ___________ is a test that compares the test takers intrests with the intrests if people who enjoy and are successful in various kinds of work.
humanistic
The approach to personality development that maintains that people are free to make concious choices and are responsible for their choices.
Self esteem
The belief in oneself, or self-respect
Norms
The established standards of performanceon a test are called the____________.
Archetypes
Ideas and images of the accumulated expierience of all human beings.
Standardized test
A ____________ is one that is administered and scored the same way every time it is used.
Aptitude test
A _______________ is used to determine whether a person is likely to do well in a given field of work or study.
Collective unconscious
A store of human concepts shared by all people across all cultures.
Forced-choice format
A test with a _____________ is one in which the test taker must choose one of the answers, even if none of them seem to fit his or her intrests precisely.
Self-concept
A view of oneself as an individual.
Oral
According to Freud, the first stage of psychological development.
Superego
According to Freud, the structure of the mind that demands morality.
id
According to freud, the structure of the mind that demands instant gratification.
Trait
An aspect of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable.
Denial
Defense mechanism in which a person refuses to accept the reality of anything that is bad.
Repression
Defense mechanism that removes anxiety-causing ideas from conscious awareness by pushing them into the unconscious.
Personality tests
Psychologists use ________________________ to help diagnose psychological problems or disorders.
Personality
The patterns of feelings, motives, and behavior that set people apart from one another.
Social learning
The personality theory that focuses on learning by observation and on the role of cognitive processes that produce individual differences.
behaviorism
The personality theory that teaches that environmental forces shape peoples behavior.
Acculturation
The process of adapting to a new or different culture.
Carl Jung
The psychiatrist who proposed the idea of the collective unconscious.
Abraham Maslow
The psychologist that believed that people wish to reach their full potential but must follow individual paths to do so.
Alfred Adler
The psychologist who believed that people are basically motivated by a need to overcome feelings of inferiority.
Carl Rogers
The psychologist who developed the self theory, which asserts that people have a need for consistency between their self-concepts and their expieriences.
Erik Erikson
The psychologist who proposed an eight stage theory of psychosocial development.
Sigmund Freud
The psychologist who proposed the "inner conflict" approach to personality theory.
Hans Eysenck
The psychologist who proposed two personality dimensions: introversion-extroversion and stability-instability.
gordon Allport
The psychologist who suggested that traits can be inherited and are fixed in the nervous system.
Agreeableness
The tendency to go along with what other people want.
Stanford binet,Wexler
The two most widely used intelligence tests are the ____________ and the ____________.
Socialization
The use of reinforcers to influence people to perform socially desirable behaviors.
Validity scales
To avoid the effects of distortion on a test, psychological tests have _____________ built into them.
behavior-rating scales
Using ______________, observers measure behavior by checking off each occurence of a specific behavior within a certain amount of time.
Test-retest reliability
When a person recieves similar scores on the same test taken on different occasions, that test is said to have____________.
Psychological tests
____________ asses abilities, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors.
