5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology, 2014-2015 Edition

Karen Horney’s Psychoanalytic Theory Although she never studied with Freud, Karen Horney is also considered a neo-Freudian. She ...

Cognitive and Social Cognitive (Social-Learning) Theories Both cognitive and social cognitive theories (also called social-learn ...

characterized by collectivism,primary identification of an individual as a member of a group (family, school, company, community ...

Hans Eysenck’s Personality Dimensions Another trait/type theorist, psychologist Hans Eysenck, tried to reduce description of our ...

Direct Observation Have you ever watched the behavior of people as you waited in line or sat in a public place? If so, you were ...

included in the test; items that didn’t were eliminated. Each item needed to correlate highly with some trait or dimension of pe ...

 Review Questions Directions:For each question, choose the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers th ...

9.The most commonly used personality assess- ments are (A) projective tests (B) naturalistic observations (C) structured intervi ...

B—Ideal self and real self. Rogers believed that our ideal self is what we think society wants us to be and our real self is ou ...

Freud’s three levels of the mind: Conscious—includes everything we are aware of. Preconscious—contains information and feelings ...

contains universal memories and ideas that all people have inherited from ancestors over the course of evolution. Archetypes—in ...

Trait theory—Atraitis a relatively permanent characteristic of our personality that can be used to predict our behavior. Gordon ...

Halo effect—tendency to generalize a favorable impression to unrelated dimensions of the subject’s personality. Hawthorn effect— ...

 201 Testing and Individual Differences IN THIS CHAPTER Summary:Are you taking the AP Psychology exam in May? Have you taken th ...

ena or objects; they are hypothetical abstractions related to behavior and defined by groups of objects or events. For example, ...

Validity Tests can be very reliable, but if they are not also valid, they are useless for measuring the particular construct or ...

on surveys, questionnaires, or polls. The MMPI-2(described in Chapter 14) exemplifies the self-report test. Performance tests in ...

Association, have produced documents detailing appropriate technical and professional standards for construction, evaluation, in ...

As a result of their responses to test items, children were assigned a mental age ormental levelreflecting the age at which typi ...

achieve a sixth-grade education, hold a job, get married, and become an adequate parent. In schools, they are often mainstreamed ...