The best member or most typical example of a category is called a
a. central proposition.
b. dispositional attribution.
c. prototype.
d. schema.
Question 2Both men and women view the following qualities as necessities in a potential mate:
a. attractiveness and status.
b. intelligence and status.
c. intelligence and kindness.
d. attractiveness and kindness.
Question 3A scale is objective if
a. a person's responses are recorded directly, with no interpretation until a later time.
b. an interpretation is made before information about behavior is recorded.
c. another researcher has used it.
d. it is included in the Manual of Personality Inventories.
Question 4Walter Mischel combined which two ideas in his theory of personality to explain where behavior comes from?
A) Primary Drives and Secondary drives
B) Cognitive ability and societal influences
C) Societal influences and internal drives
D) Internal Motivations and External Drives
E) Chumship and cognitive abilities
Question 5Which of the following is a type of reliability that can be measured?
A) Construct reliability
B) Internal consistency reliability
C) Discriminant validity
D) Convergent reliability
E) Criterion-related validation
Question 6The personality assessment that requires individuals to describe how two people in his or her life differ from a third, thus identifying an important personality construct, is the
A) California Psychological Inventory.
B) Rorschach Inkblot Test.
C) Q-sort Test.
D) Role Construct Repertory Test.
E) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
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