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| There is little reason to believe that the effects of the genes are multiplicative rather than simply additive. True or false? |
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| According to the textbook, there is little research in support of the concept of reaction formation? True or False? |
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| When personality psychologists measure trait differences in extraversion, what kinds of direct observations are they making? |
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| What differentiates secondary process thinking from primary thinking? |
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| Primary process thinking is impulsive, whereas secondary process thinking is rational. |
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The ego suppresses the id for______ reasons.
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| A factor analysis of the original self-monitoring scale confirmed that the scale was measuring a single self-monitoring personality trait. True or False? |
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| Which correlates of delay of gratification were common in both girls and boys? |
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| being playful, reflective and reasonable |
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| In the article, "Personality in Non-human Animals", Gosling concludes that______ |
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| personality exists in animals and can be measured. |
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| Personality traits are generally consistent across the life span but this consistency increases with age. This statement best refelcts which principle of personality development? |
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| What piece of evidence supports a distinction between authoritarianism and political party affilation? |
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| A finding that Romanians high in this dimension still believed in communist ideals |
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| Integrity tests are often used by employers in personnel selection? True or False? |
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| The most important advantage of Q-sorting is that it? |
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| forces the judge to compare to all the items directly against each other |
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| Adler was interested in neurotic needs? True or False? |
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| Freud was trained as a veterinarian. True or False? |
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| According to Freud, the irrational and emotional part of the mind is the _____ and the rational part of the mind is the _______. |
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| Freud believed the essence of mental health was to be able to love and to work. True or False? |
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| Early reports about personality and emotional changes in Phineas Gage after his accident led ______ |
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| neurosurgeons to perform lobotomies to control maladaptive behavior. |
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| In middle age, we experience the psychosocial crisis of ______, according to Erikson. |
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| generativity versus stagnation |
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| What are the Big Three traits according to Auke Tellegen? |
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| positive emotionality/negative emotionality/constraint |
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| A low level of MAO in the blood seems to correlate with sensation seeking and criminal behavior. True or false? |
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| Trisha, who is on a diet, passes a bakery and sees a chocolate cake in the window. She immediately wants to go in and get the cake, but then realizes that eating the caske will only destroy her diet. When she feels guilty for even thinking about breaking her diet, Trisha is experiencing what? |
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| The person who performed the first psychosurgery on the frontal lobes of humans won a Nobel Prize. True or False? |
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| There is evidence that catharsis is beneficial for physical and psychological health. True or False? |
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| a woman's idealized conception of men |
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| Andy is concerned about whether or not younger adults are much happier than older adults. Andy studies what kind of personality stability? |
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| A moralistic church official ends up patronizing prostitutes. According to Freudian theory, this was caused by _____? |
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| the id's winning out over the superego. |
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| According to Jeffrey Gray's theory, dopamine is associated with what reward-seeking system? |
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| behavioral activation system |
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| The genital character type |
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| is pschologically well-adjusted |
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| According to Adler, what is social interest? |
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| the desire to relate postively to others |
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| Stage actors tend to score low on the self-monitoring scale. True or False? |
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| High levels of cortisol appear to be associated with _____, and low levels of cortisol appear to be associated with ______. |
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| stress, anxiety and depression; impulsivity and sensation-seeking |
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| What book marked the beginning of evolutionary thinking? |
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| Darvin's: orgin of species |
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| According to Melanie Klein, the _______ positon refers to a child's desire to worship and protect the good parts of an object because they fear losing them. |
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| Capgras syndrome arises from the damage to the ______? |
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| The Big Six model is called the HEXACO? True or False? |
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| What is the correct formula for calculating heritability? |
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| 2(rmz-rdz) (MULTIPLICATION) |
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| What are the three types of attachment in children? |
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| anxious-ambivalent, dependent, secure |
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| According to the article in the Funder and Ozer reader, fraternities with higher average tertosterone levels tended to be? |
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| more rambunctious than other frats |
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| The last stage in the life span for Erikson is generativity versus stagnation? True or False? |
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| A gene that produces low levels of ________ activity in conjunction with _______ seems to increase the risk for developing antisocial behavior. |
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| MAO; Childhoof maltreatment |
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| According to Jack Block, _______ gets people into trouble, but _______ gets people out of trouble. |
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| ego undercontrol; ego resilency |
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| The basic developmental task of the phallic stage is _______? |
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| the acquistion of gender identity |
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| Research suggests that avoidant children are likely to grow up to be adults who tend to ______? |
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| be relatively uninterested in romantic partners. |
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| Mike's prototypical woman is sensitive and intelligent. Mike's idealized image of a woman is his _____. |
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| According to Erikson, most conflicts are unconscious; few if any conflicts occur in the conscious mind. True or False? |
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| Which hormone is associated with the flight-or-flight response? |
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| The ego develops during the anal stage. True or False? |
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| The California F Scale _______ |
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| measures the psychological orientation that was believed to be the basis racial prejudice. |
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| What is the biggest confound in a typical parenting study that examines the correlation between parenting practices and the behaviors of offspring? |
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| In most studies of parenting, parents and kids share genetic material. |
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| Across a wide variety of cultures, _____ are more likely than _____ to place a higher value on physical attractiveness. |
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