Quiz a lot 2. Psychology - Personality Psychology

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How do personality psychologists define the self?

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Why is meta-analysis an important technique for verifying scientific outcomes?

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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which cluster contains odd or eccentric personality disorders?

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Tothepoint Hospital has a unique way of announcing the many births that occur there each day. Whereas most obstetricians happily proclaim, "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!" to parents eager to receive such news, the doctors at Tothepoint instead issue a laconic, "XX. XY. XXY. XX." Assunta and Giacomo just delivered their first child, and the physician declared, "XY." What is the biological sex of Giacomo and Assunta's newborn?

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Dr. Zarkov is investigating whether drinking white milk or chocolate milk before bedtime makes someone sleepy. What are the independent and dependent variables in this study?

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Adopting a pessimistic explanatory style is like embracing a __________ personality style, because both orientations assume there is little to lose.

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__________ is especially important for jobs that require face-to-face interactions with others, such as that of being a host in a restaurant.

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How do women and men compare on most dimensions of sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors?

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How should the Big Five personality traits be conceptualized?

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Why would gathering data from archival sources, such as Facebook, newspaper accounts, or federal databases, be advantageous to a researcher?

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How are depression and optimism related?

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How do children learn the social norms of their culture?

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What is unbiased processing in regard to the authenticity of the self?

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Alphonso sees the world in terms of individual rights and freedoms and scoffs at the notion that people should be cooperative, interdependent, and harmonious in the social roles they adopt. What cultural background is Alphonso likely to have?

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The scores from a set of responses to a scale are 5, 5, 5, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11, and 12. What are the mode, median, and mean scores of this data set?

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Who were the "Termites?"

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Rochelle has a habit of falling in love quickly. She spends all her free time with her boyfriend Jethro, but when they have a fight or he's unavailable due to business commitments, Rochelle thinks the worst and is visibly distraught. It is likely that Rochelle has developed a(n) __________ attachment style.

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What has research into teachers' flow experiences revealed, and how might it be applied more broadly?

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Describe and give an example of a positive correlation.

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Why is conscientiousness a strong predictor of longevity?

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Mirjami is hoping to find her soul mate online on a dating website. Do dating sites based on personality matching actually work?

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How do a child's early attachment experiences become part of the child's personality?

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Explain the acquiescence response set, why it is a problem, and what can be done to combat it.

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How does low conscientiousness manifest itself, and what health outcomes may result from this trait?

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Residents of the small country of Ruritania adopted the slogan, "Put your own needs before the needs of others."" Over time this saying caught on, such that successive generations of Ruritanians became more individualistic than their forebears. This cultural change is an example of __________.

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Xiao Ling sees the world and the people in it as threats. To overcome these perceived challenges, she tries to secure background information on her supposed foes in order to use it against them. Xiao Ling is using the moving __________ technique.

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How do individualistic and collectivistic societies differ in their attributional style? Provide an example.

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Pietro has achieved the highest need on Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid. What does this mean?

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What criticism has been directed toward Freud's theories?

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