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Social Quiz on Wk7 Integrating theories and personality tests, created by Cael Courtney on 22/05/2017.
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Question 1

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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?
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  • Dimensions of personality
  • Defence mechanisms
  • Narrative identity
  • Humanistic biases

Question 2

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 3

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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?
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  • 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.

Question 4

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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?
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  • Psychoanalytic
  • social-learning
  • humanistic
  • evolutionary
  • personal construct
  • Positive psychology

Question 5

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Characteristic adaptations is aimed at understanding...
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  • 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

Question 7

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The idea of Dispositional Traits is [blank_start]nomothetic[blank_end], while Characteristic Adaptations is [blank_start]idiographic[blank_end] and narrative identity is [blank_start]idiographic[blank_end]
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  • idiographic
  • nomothetic
  • nomothetic
  • Idiographic
  • idiographic
  • nomothetic

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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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...
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  • 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.

Question 12

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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.
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  • True
  • False

Question 13

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[blank_start]Reliability[blank_end] refers to consistency across tests, while [blank_start]Validity[blank_end] refers to a tests ability to test what it is meant to.
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  • Reliability
  • Validity
  • Validity
  • Reliability

Question 14

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A reliable test needs
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  • 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)

Question 15

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Cronbach's alpha is...
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  • 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

Question 16

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In regards to validity, two tests that are similar should [blank_start]converge[blank_end], while two tests that are dissimilar should [blank_start]diverge[blank_end]. [blank_start]Divergent[blank_end] tests should also have discriminant validity.
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  • converge
  • diverge
  • diverge
  • converge
  • Divergent
  • Convergent

Question 17

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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?"
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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Personality traits are assessed using which method?
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  • Self-report
  • Interview
  • Behavioural observation

Question 19

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The results found from personality tests are qualitative
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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

Question 21

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Likert scales
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  • 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

Question 22

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Dispositional traits are best measured using
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  • self-report measure
  • likert scales
  • close-ended questions
  • forced choice responses

Question 23

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what are the techniques used to develop an understanding of characteristics adaptations?
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  • projective tests
  • self-report questionnares
  • Interviews
  • Implicit association tests

Question 24

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Personality inventories are
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  • 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

Question 25

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What is the use of implicit association tests?
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  • 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

Question 26

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Identity as life story is a [blank_start]humanistic[blank_end] approach to personality that is [blank_start]idiographic[blank_end] and focuses on collecting [blank_start]qualitative[blank_end] data. The main technique used is [blank_start]interviews[blank_end].
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  • humanistic
  • individualistic
  • positive psychology
  • evolutionary
  • idiographic
  • nomographic
  • qualitative
  • quantitative
  • interviews
  • questionnaires

Question 27

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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?
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  • Structured
  • Semi-structured
  • unstructured

Question 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...
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  • social contamination
  • analysis of data is time consuming
  • subjective bias issues
  • low correaltion
  • poor inter-rater reliability
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