26 ❯ STEP 2. Determine Your Test Readiness
- Social−cognitive theorists would disagree with
which of the following statements?
(A) a positive sense of self will help a person suc-
ceed in a new situation
(B) addressing conflicts in our unconscious can
help resolve current challenges
(C) individuals with high self-esteem will be
more successful at continuing work on a dif-
ficult task
(D) past performance can help predict a person’s
effectiveness in similar future circumstances
(E) observing police department trainees in sim-
ulated robberies can help determine a candi-
date’s potential- The statement, “A musician must make music;
an artist must paint; a poet must write if he is to
be ultimately at peace with himself,” was most
likely said by
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Carl Rogers
(C) Hans Eysenck
(D) Abraham Maslow
(E) Karen Horney- When two-year old Tyler loses his toy, he throws
a temper tantrum and stomps his feet on the
floor. According to Freud, the boy’s tantrum is
evidence that Tyler could not resist the demands
of his
(A) id
(B) ego
(C) superego
(D) Oedipus complex
(E) Electra complex- 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 percent
(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- All polar bears appear to have a white coat at
birth. In warmer climates about 25 percent
appear to have yellow or green coats as they age
because of algae growing on them. The heritabil-
ity of the white coat phenotype is
(A) 0 percent
(B) 25 percent
(C) 50 percent
(D) 75 percent
(E) 100 percent- According to Claude Steele, self-fulfilling proph-
ecy might account for the poorer perfor mance 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- A process used to identify clusters or groups of
related items on a test is called
(A) correlation
(B) factor analysis
(C) normative curve
(D) experimental design
(E) controlled variable