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Wk7 Integrating theories and personality tests

Pregunta 1 de 28

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In McAdams personality triad he states we should focus on three aspects of personality. Which of the following is NOT a member of these categories?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dimensions of personality

  • Defence mechanisms

  • Narrative identity

  • Humanistic biases

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Pregunta 2 de 28

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In McAdams collaborative personality theory, he states we should focus on the dispositional traits of people. This means focusing on dimensions of personality, specifically the big five.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 3 de 28

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Although McAdams believes that it is important to discover personality traits when beginning to understanding an individual , he also believes it has its limitations. What is his criticism of personality traits?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They don't tell us about the individual

  • Personality tests can be cheated and therefore false positive produced

  • They are too linear and we need more of a scale of traits

  • He didn't believe there was a problem with traits.

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Pregunta 4 de 28

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McAdams described Characteristic Adaptations as, personal goals, coping strategies, values, domain-specific skills and relationship styles. What theories does this idea integrate?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Psychoanalytic

  • social-learning

  • humanistic

  • evolutionary

  • personal construct

  • Positive psychology

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Pregunta 5 de 28

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The aim of McAdams personality triad is to try and integrate a fragmented psychological environment. A consequence of this is that he has integrated idiographic and nomothetic approaches, allowing for a more holistic construction of an individuals personality.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 6 de 28

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Characteristic adaptations is aimed at understanding...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A persons individual beliefs, motivations and defences

  • How a person adapts to negative situations

  • Dysfunctional adaptation styles

  • A persons formed biases as a result of life experience

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Pregunta 7 de 28

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Selecciona la opción correcta de los menús desplegables para completar el texto.

The idea of Dispositional Traits is ( nomothetic, Idiographic ), while Characteristic Adaptations is ( idiographic, nomothetic ) and narrative identity is ( idiographic, nomothetic )

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Pregunta 8 de 28

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One could say there is stability in traits, but constant change in identity.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 9 de 28

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According to McAdams, why is our personal story so important to our identity?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Through our story we can define ourselves and create our sense of identity

  • Our story is full of confidence boosts and without it we lose self-esteem

  • Through our story we understand the world and how others behave in it

  • Our story can be manipulated to create another defence mechanism to protect us from negative environments

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Pregunta 10 de 28

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The biggest problem with modern personality theories, is that they are all based on WEIRD people.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 11 de 28

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Individualist cultures see the individual as separate from the social. In contrast collectivist cultures see the individual as part of the social network, they are just a node within a social network. As most of the world is collectivist, this presents a problem to personality theories because...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Our personality theories are derived from men whose research is based on individualistic cultures

  • our personality theories focus on individuals not social environments

  • this potentially means we have to remove all personality theories and only focus on social psychology

  • We need more computational models to account for the nodes within a social network.

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Pregunta 12 de 28

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Bandura stated that cultures are either individualistic or collectivist. He believed that this is a static trait that is very hard to change.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 13 de 28

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Selecciona la opción correcta de los menús desplegables para completar el texto.

( Reliability, Validity ) refers to consistency across tests, while ( Validity, Reliability ) refers to a tests ability to test what it is meant to.

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Pregunta 14 de 28

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A reliable test needs

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Consistency throughout itself (internal consistency)

  • same results found by another (inter-rater reliability)

  • Consistency over testing occasions (test-retest reliability)

  • Consistency in different environments (environmental reliability)

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Pregunta 15 de 28

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Cronbach's alpha is...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A measure of internal consistency and how closely related certain items are.

  • A measure of validity (.5 and above meaning valid)

  • A masterpiece of classical music

  • A unit of measurement involved in determining personality traits

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Pregunta 16 de 28

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Selecciona la opción correcta de los menús desplegables para completar el texto.

In regards to validity, two tests that are similar should ( converge, diverge ), while two tests that are dissimilar should ( diverge, converge ). ( Divergent, Convergent ) tests should also have discriminant validity.

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Pregunta 17 de 28

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It could be said that McAdams personality triad consists of; "who am i?", "what are my basic tendencies?", "What do i want and value?"

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

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Pregunta 18 de 28

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Personality traits are assessed using which method?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Self-report

  • Interview

  • Behavioural observation

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Pregunta 19 de 28

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The results found from personality tests are qualitative

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 28

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What is a positive of the forced choice format in questionnaires?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • To get around the problems of social desirability and acquiescence

  • lets people be forced into one category or another

  • to get around the problem of cheating on tests

  • lets the therapist gather qualitative data

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 28

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Likert scales

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • result in ordinal data and can be used in non-parametric tests

  • result in nominal data and can be used in non-parametric tests

  • result in ordinal data and can be used in parametric tests

  • result in nominal data and can be used in parametric tests

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Pregunta 22 de 28

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Dispositional traits are best measured using

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • self-report measure

  • likert scales

  • close-ended questions

  • forced choice responses

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 28

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what are the techniques used to develop an understanding of characteristics adaptations?

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • projective tests

  • self-report questionnares

  • Interviews

  • Implicit association tests

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 28

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Personality inventories are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Self-report questionnaires aimed at discovering personality traits

  • Interview techniques available to the therapist to discover an individuals personality traits.

  • The classing system of an individuals personality

  • our personality assessment results

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 28

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What is the use of implicit association tests?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They try to get away from self-report measures

  • They are extremely valid

  • they assess our conscious beliefs and opinions

  • they help to discover our motivations in life

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 28

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Selecciona la opción correcta de los menús desplegables para completar el texto.

Identity as life story is a ( humanistic, individualistic, positive psychology, evolutionary ) approach to personality that is ( idiographic, nomographic ) and focuses on collecting ( qualitative, quantitative ) data. The main technique used is ( interviews, questionnaires ).

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Pregunta 27 de 28

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If a therapists was interviewing a person about their life story and had a set of questions prepared, but asked a follow up question off script, what style of interviewing would they be using?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Structured

  • Semi-structured

  • unstructured

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 28

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Interviews are a useful tool in personality assessment as they allow for multiple sources of information, the therapist can see non-verbal signs, they are flexible and qualitative data can be gained. Although, interviews still have their disadvantages which include...

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • social contamination

  • analysis of data is time consuming

  • subjective bias issues

  • low correaltion

  • poor inter-rater reliability

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