Question 1

A student improves her ability to attend to her instructor's lecture as a result of a counselor's behavioral observation and recording of the student's attentiveness in the class room.This improvement could BEST be cited as an example of the effectiveness of self-monitoring as

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A)   a tool of psychological assessment.
B)   a tool for intervention.
C)   a technique for remediation.
D)   a diagnostic methodology.

Question 2

Of the following behavioral scientists,which one is credited with being the first to investigate associations to words?

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A)   Jung
B)   Kraeplin
C)   Galton
D)   Cattell

Question 3

Weiss et al.(2008) believed that one of the MOST compelling reasons to use the Rorschach as a tool in pre-employment screening of police officers was that the Rorschach

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A)   rendered results accepted by courts throughout the United States.
B)   rendered ineffective any efforts to fake good.
C)   had greater validity compared to prior methods used.
D)   All of these

Question 4

Which of the following personality tests was cited in your textbook as LEAST recommended by training directors of APA-approved programs in clinical psychology?

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A)   the MMPI-2
B)   the TAT
C)   the Rorschach
D)   the Word Association Test

Question 5

The timeline-followback procedure is essentially a behavioral record

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A)   of the "here and now."
B)   that gauges duration.
C)   of the past.
D)   that is future-oriented.

Question 6

Although widely acknowledged to be of value in monitoring the progress in treatment of sex offenders,the value of phallometric data in criminal proceedings is

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A)   less straightforward.
B)   far more well-documented.
C)   undisputed by experts.
D)   only accepted into evidence in the Dominican Republic.

Question 7

Of the following tests,which is the BEST example of a semi-structured test?

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A)   the Rorschach
B)   the TAT
C)   the CAT-H
D)   the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank

Question 8

Various research studies conducted by Dr.Monica Webb Hooper touch on all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   social psychology.
B)   public health.
C)   psychoanalytic psychology.
D)   biobehavioral oncology.

Question 9

A difference between self-monitoring and self-report is that

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A)   self-report assesses the behavior at a time other than when it is occurring while self-monitoring assesses the behavior at the time of occurrence.
B)   self-monitoring assesses the behavior at a time other than when it is occurring while self-report assesses the behavior at the time of occurrence.
C)   Self-monitoring is subject to more problems than self-report.
D)   Self-report is subject to more problems than self-monitoring.

Question 10

Word association tests such as that developed by Jung

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A)   are usually based on cognitive theories of personality.
B)   are based on the premise that certain key words represent areas of conflict.
C)   utilize only "traumatic" stimulus words, in an attempt to diagnose associative disturbances.
D)   employ normative databases with samples matched to U.S. census data.

Question 11

The stimulus cards of the Rorschach test are

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A)   all achromatic.
B)   all multicolored.
C)   all black, white, and red.
D)   None of these

Question 12

An inherent problem with phallometric methods is that the defendant's self-interest co-exists with a well-documented ability of the assessee to

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A)   "fake good."
B)   do the best they can on the task.
C)   purposely fail the task.
D)   be first to finish the task.

Question 13

A total of how many Rorschach cards are initially presented to the testtaker?

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A)   5
B)   10
C)   15
D)   18

Question 14

Which of the following groups of researchers would be MOST likely to make use of phallometric data?

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A)   researchers studying voting preferences
B)   researchers studying pedophilia
C)   researchers studying agoraphobia
D)   researchers studying the validity of projective methods

Question 15

______ served as the curator of the Hermann Rorschach Museum and Archives in Bern,Switzerland.

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A)   Klopfer
B)   Piotrowski
C)   Beck
D)   None of these

Question 16

Self-monitoring can be both a method of data collection and

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A)   a type of projective instrument.
B)   an intervention itself.
C)   a means of watching oneself on closed circuit television.
D)   a method of increasing the generalizability of findings.

Question 17

Which of the following is TRUE of the reliability of the TAT?

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A)   Inter-rater reliability has ranged from adequate to very high.
B)   Split-half reliability has been found to be adequate.
C)   Test-retest reliability has been found to be adequate.
D)   Inter-item consistency has ranged from moderately acceptable to acceptable.

Question 18

In a study that employed Rapaport et al.'s Word Association Test,the researchers found that to the stimulus word mouth,19% of a schizophrenic sample responded with the word

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A)   teeth.
B)   tongue.
C)   lips.
D)   dentures.

Question 19

The integration of data from statistical procedures,empirical methods,and formal rules to formulate descriptions and make predictions is referred to as

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A)   actuarial prediction.
B)   clinical prediction.
C)   empirical prediction.
D)   formal prediction.

Question 20

In recent years,projective tests have

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A)   increasingly been criticized for being culturally loaded.
B)   increasingly become norm-referenced.
C)   attempted to tap less and less unconscious content.
D)   None of these

Exam 12: Personality Assessment Methods

Word association tests such as that developed by Jung

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The timeline-followback procedure is essentially a behavioral record

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The integration of data from statistical procedures,empirical methods,and formal rules to formulate descriptions and make predictions is referred to as

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A difference between self-monitoring and self-report is that

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Self-monitoring can be both a method of data collection and

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The stimulus cards of the Rorschach test are

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Weiss et al.(2008) believed that one of the MOST compelling reasons to use the Rorschach as a tool in pre-employment screening of police officers was that the Rorschach

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A student improves her ability to attend to her instructor's lecture as a result of a counselor's behavioral observation and recording of the student's attentiveness in the class room.This improvement could BEST be cited as an example of the effectiveness of self-monitoring as

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Of the following tests,which is the BEST example of a semi-structured test?

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______ served as the curator of the Hermann Rorschach Museum and Archives in Bern,Switzerland.

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Various research studies conducted by Dr.Monica Webb Hooper touch on all of the following EXCEPT

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In recent years,projective tests have

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A total of how many Rorschach cards are initially presented to the testtaker?

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Which of the following personality tests was cited in your textbook as LEAST recommended by training directors of APA-approved programs in clinical psychology?

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In a study that employed Rapaport et al.'s Word Association Test,the researchers found that to the stimulus word mouth,19% of a schizophrenic sample responded with the word

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An inherent problem with phallometric methods is that the defendant's self-interest co-exists with a well-documented ability of the assessee to

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Of the following behavioral scientists,which one is credited with being the first to investigate associations to words?

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Which of the following is TRUE of the reliability of the TAT?

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Although widely acknowledged to be of value in monitoring the progress in treatment of sex offenders,the value of phallometric data in criminal proceedings is

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Which of the following groups of researchers would be MOST likely to make use of phallometric data?

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