When participant responses to a test are consistent across time, the test is said to have strong test-retest reliability.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 2Marcia loves sports and is fiercely competitive. She's played soccer since she was seven, and since starting high school has become a track and field star.
Marcias friends describe her as tough, although they are quick to add that she always has fun. Although her friendships are not deep, Marcia is extremely popular and almost everyone in school knows her name. Marcia hopes to be an engineer one day. Based on this brief description, Marcia would probably score as __________ on the Bem Sex Role Inventory. A) masculine
B) feminine
C) undifferentiated
D) androgynous
E) none of these
Question 3An 11-year-old boy is getting bullied at school and has to make a decision what to do about it. According to Freud's theory on the structure of the mind, which scenario best describes a decision made by the ego?
A) The boy feels so angry when the bullies attack him that he can't control his reaction, and he punches and kicks them.
B) The boy decides that even though he would like to beat the boys up, he was taught it is morally wrong to fight, and he will have to find some other way to get the bullying to stop.
C) The boy realizes that if he were to get into a fight with the bullies during the school day, he might get in trouble with the school, so he decides to wait until after school to teach the bullies a lesson.
D) The boy experiences an irrational fear of castration, even though he knows the bullies only intend to steal his lunch money, and he runs for his life.
E) The boy has fantasies of bringing a gun to school and shooting the bullies next time, even though he has no access to any guns.
Question 4According to Rotter's locus of control approach to personality, a person's behavior depends on
A) income expectancy plus internal schema for the situation.
B) internal personality schemas and how they react with the world.
C) outcome expectancy plus reinforcement value.
D) outcome variables plus internal needs.
E) factors that are too complicated to explain and should not be studied.
Question 5Which of the following criticisms has been leveled at the cognitive approach to personality?
a. It has generated very little empirical research.
b. It is an attempt to graft an area of psychology where it does not belong.
c. It is too rooted in Freud's psychoanalytic theory.
d. All of these answers are correct.
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