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

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 ...

mental tasks had a high degree of correlation, he concluded that one important factor, which he called g,underlies all intellige ...

tests measure the ability to take tests well, they do not agree that intelligence tests actually measure intelligence. Since res ...

ago. This Flynn effectcannot be attributed to a change in the human gene pool because that would take hundreds of years. Theoris ...

If Mrs. Delvecchio compared the scores of stu- dents on the odd-numbered questions on the test with their scores for the even-n ...

 Answers and Explanations B—Aptitude tests measure our potential for learning whereas achievement tests measure what we have a ...