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Which of the following statements regarding hindsight bias is LEAST accurate? ​


A) Hindsight bias occurs in many different settings.
B) Hindsight bias appears to be pervasive in everyday analyses of personality.
C) Hindsight bias is generally restricted to thinking about issues related to personality.
D) The notion of hindsight bias has been raised in criticisms of psychoanalytic theory.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Research on national character using the Big Five personality traits found that ​


A) subjects displayed considerable disagreement concerning what was typical of their culture.
B) subjects displayed considerable agreement concerning what was typical of their culture.
C) people's beliefs about national character were fueled by egalitarian principles.
D) people's beliefs about national character were fueled by unconscious impulses.

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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Cross-cultural research suggests that the Big Five personality traits ​


A) only exist in Western cultures.
B) are unique to each culture.
C) are fairly consistent across cultures.
D) are fairly inconsistent across cultures.

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Carmen has always done well in her math courses and even though she has never taken a statistics class before, she is confident she will do well in the one she just signed up for next semester. In this example, Carmen shows evidence of having ​


A) high incongruence with respect to math.
B) high self-efficacy in math.
C) low self-efficacy in math.
D) a mathematical neurosis.

E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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_____'s followers view personality as a collection of response tendencies that are shaped by learning and tied to specific stimulus situations.

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Asian and American conceptions of the self differ in that American parents foster a(n) _____ view of self while Asian parents foster a more _____ view of self.

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The largely unconscious reactions used to protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt are _____ mechanisms.


A) coping
B) defense
C) offense
D) id

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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The sickly child who goes on to become a forceful, physically active adult is engaging in what Adler called ​


A) compensation.
B) displacement.
C) fixation.
D) regression.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

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Recent research suggests that levels of narcissism in college students have _____ over the past few decades.


A) increased
B) remained stable
C) decreased slightly
D) decreased considerably

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Jordon has taken a job that is extremely dangerous, but that pays him enough so that he is sure he will have enough to eat and he will be able to sleep in a warm place each night. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Jordon is probably primarily motivated by ​


A) safety and security needs.
B) cognitive needs.
C) the need for self-actualization.
D) physiological needs.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Your psychology professor argues that personality is a collection of response tendencies that are tied to various stimulus situations. Which of the following theories of personality is she presenting?


A) Rational-emotive
B) Behaviorism
C) Humanism
D) Invasive

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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List and describe each of Freud's psychosexual stages of development and their theorized relations to adult personality.

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Freud believed that the foundation of pe...

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Briefly describe the two types of personality tests, and give the four principal uses of personality tests.

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Behavioral genetics, the evolutionary approach, and Eysenck's theory all approach the study of personality from the _____ perspective.


A) scientific
B) psychodynamic
C) biological
D) behavioral

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Nettle (2006) believes _____ may be adaptive because it fostered coalition building among our ancestors.


A) openness to experience
B) conscientiousness
C) extraversion
D) agreeableness

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Eysenck's theory of personality is based on all of the following EXCEPT ​


A) higher-order personality traits.
B) differences in physiological functioning.
C) differences in basic needs.
D) differences in ease of conditioning.

E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

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Graham is a 25-year-old male who is extremely anxious about any type of sexual activity. According to Freud's view of personality development, this anxiety may have arisen from ​


A) fixation at the genital stage of psychosexual development.
B) excessive punishment during his toilet training as a toddler.
C) improper weaning from the bottle when he was an infant.
D) an unresolved crisis during the latency stage of psychosexual development.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Sigmund Freud's theory of personality was influenced by the Victorian climate of sexual repression, a fact that illustrates which of the following unifying themes of your textbook? ​


A) Psychology is empirical.
B) Psychology is theoretically diverse.
C) Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context.
D) Psychology is the study of subjective experience.

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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Freud's contemporaries were uncomfortable with his theory for all of the following reasons EXCEPT


A) his argument that people's behavior is governed by unconscious factors of which they are unaware.
B) his argument that individuals are masters of their own minds.
C) his argument that adult personalities are shaped by childhood experiences and other factors beyond their control.
D) his emphasis on how people cope with their sexual urges.

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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When Braden was nine, he saw one of his classmates fall under the wheels of a school bus as it pulled away from the curb. Today, at the age of 34, he has no memory of the accident. The evening news carried a flashback of the accident that happened 25 years ago, and Braden still didn't remember being at the scene when the accident happened. According to Freud, Braden's memory of the accident seems to be contained in his _____ mind.


A) subconscious
B) unconscious
C) conscious
D) preconscious

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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