338:02 EXAM CH 1+2

What is the big disadvantage of the case study method?

It is not generalizable

There are good reasons why personality psychologists have distinct theories versus One Big Theory. Which is NOT one of those reasons?

One Big Theory would abolish the individual approaches to personality

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

S

Why haven't personality psychologists combined all paradigms into "One Big Theory"?

a theory that tries to explain everything would probably not provide the best explanation for the individual as a whole

Which of the following is an expression of Funder's First Law?

characteristics that are strengths in one sense are weaknesses in other ways

Which of the following does not fall within the biological approach?

cognition

_________ is a research strategy that involves gathering as many different measurements as you can of a particular construct and determining if those measurements correlate

construct validation

Establishing that a test correlates with measures of related constructs indicates high

convergent validity

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

experimental

The distinction between reliability and validity is not always easy. To better distinguish between the two notions, we now tend to view them as aspects of a single broader concept called what?

generalizability

A measure can be described as ______ when it is equally valid in persons of different ages, genders, and cultures

generalizable

The technical meaning of reliability refers to ___________

how much measurement error is present in your assessment instrument

The group differences level of personality analysis addresses how every human is

like some others

Personality psychology and clinical psychology overlap most often when approaching which topic?

personality disorders

The ________ approach deals with mental mechanisms of personality, many of which operate outside of conscious awareness

psychoanalytic

What is a disadvantage of I data?

the accuracy of I data is limited because individuals often behave differently in different contexts

Personality psychologists need to distinguish between scientific _________ and _________.

theories; beliefs

Validity refers to the ability

to measure what the personality test purports to measure.

The _______ approach deals with the ways in which individuals differ from one another

trait

The trait approach focuses on

understanding the ways individuals differ from one another.