Exam 3: Personality Assessment: Effect Size, Replicability, and Open Science

A) the individual's needs, feelings or experiences.
B) a "yes" or "no" answer.
C) the stimulus itself.
D) S data.

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A) to test the causal relationship between two variables
B) to ensure the study will be approved by the IRB
C) to make the research realistic
D) to increase generalizability of the results

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A) Extraversion is positively correlated with happiness.
B) Extraversion is negatively correlated with happiness.
C) Extraversion is the same construct as happiness.
D) Extraversion is uncorrelated with happiness.

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A) finding a method that demonstrates the size of the correlation in a concrete manner
B) evaluating whether it is statistically significant at the p < .05 level
C) simply looking at the sign of the correlation and ignoring the actual value
D) squaring the value, so that you can interpret the value more easily

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A) are the five key steps in the process of factor analysis.
B) are steps in the construction of rational tests.
C) factor analytically derived dimensions of personality.
D) are the primary methods of test construction used by personality psychologists.

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A) 2.50
B) .75
C) 0
D) -.98

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A) Projective test
B) Objective test
C) IAT
D) TAT
E) Rorschach
F) MMPI

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A) Factor analytic
B) Rational
C) Empirical
D) Significance testing
E) BESD
F) Interpretive

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A) rational
B) empirical
C) factor analytic
D) consensus validation

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A) -1.0
B) -.5
C) 0
D) 1.0

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A) MMPI.
B) CPI.
C) Rorschach Test.
D) Thematic Apperception Test.

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A) Only researchers with interesting findings are awarded grants and jobs.
B) It is far too easy for researchers to commit fraud.
C) Researchers can make choices throughout the research process and manipulate real datasets to get the results they want.
D) Strong effects are published more, leading to a literature that does not represent the actual strength of an effect.

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A) S
B) I
C) L
D) B

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A) draw a person so that the psychologist may determine which parts are left out or exaggerated.
B) describe their current level of hostility so that the psychologist can measure their type A tendencies.
C) tell stories about pictures that the psychologist shows them.
D) describe their perceptions of the causes of people's behavior so that the psychologist can measure attributional complexity.

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A) Gather lots of items.
B) Identify the groups.
C) Administer items to a large sample.
D) Conduct a factor analysis on existing scales.

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A) factor analytic
B) rational
C) projective
D) empirical

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A) to rate how intelligent they are on a scale from 1 to 7.
B) a series of questions of varying difficulty that have specific correct answers.
C) to interpret an ambiguous image.
D) to describe a time in their lives that demonstrated intelligence.

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