24 ❯ STEP 2. Determine Your Test Readiness
- The Rorschach inkblot test is
(A) a personality inventory
(B) used to fingerprint suspects
(C) an aptitude test
(D) an achievement test
(E) a projective personality test- In a normal distribution
(A) the range is always the same
(B) the standard deviation is equal to the range
(C) the standard deviation equals about 34%
(D) the median is equal to the mode
(E) the mean is equal to the standard deviation- Peter Salovey and John Mayer’s concept of emo-
tional intelligence is most similar to which of
Howard Gardner’s intelligences?
(A) analytic and practical
(B) naturalist and existential
(C) interpersonal and intrapersonal
(D) bodily/kinesthetic and verbal/linguistic
(E) spatial and logical - All good achievement tests should have
I. content validity
II. predictive validity
III. reliability
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and III only
(E) I, II, and III- The heritability of intelligence among identical
triplets is
(A) 0%
(B) 25%
(C) 50%
(D) 75%
(E) 100% - According to Claude Steele, self-fulfilling
prophecy might account for the poorer perform-
ance of African Americans on intelligence tests and
girls on mathematics achievement tests because of
(A) generalized anxiety disorder
(B) stereotype threat
(C) neuroticism
(D) the primacy effect
(E) psychological profiling
55. Although your friend thinks there is nothing
wrong with her, you are concerned with her behav-
ior of unplugging every electrical item in her house
every time she leaves, including all lamps, radios,
the television, toaster, clocks, and telephones. Her
behavior might be considered abnormal because
(A) she doesn’t know right from wrong
(B) it is atypical and violates cultural norms
(C) she thinks it interferes with her everyday life
(D) it is insane
(E) it is dangerous
56. Which of the following perspectives attributes
abnormal behavior to failure to resolve uncon-
scious conflicts?
(A) biological
(B) behavioral
(C) psychoanalytic
(D) humanistic
(E) evolutionary
57. Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by
(A) unwarranted suspiciousness and mistrust of
other people
(B) lack of interest in social relationships
(C) a grandiose sense of one’s own importance
(D) instability revolving around problems of
mood and thought processes
(E) pleasure-seeking, shallow feelings, lack of
conscience
58. David thought he heard a dog telling him to kill
people. Hearing the dog talking is an example of
(A) a hallucination
(B) a delusion
(C) inappropriate affect
(D) incoherent speech
(E) palsy