Cultures whose members regard the "self" as a collection of stable personality traits are (individualist/collectivist)
What will be an ideal response?
individualist
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A critic of personality inventories says, "These tests have no way of detecting faking or defensiveness in the individuals who take them. Worse, they never include norms for responses of people from different cultural groups." Which response to these criticisms is accurate?
a. The MMPI-2 has both of the features the critic says are absent. b. The critic is correct about the problem of faking but not about norms from different cultures. c. The critic is confusing the problems of projective tests with those of inventories. d. Current research supports what the critic is saying.
According to Leon Festinger, which of the following fills needs for social comparison?
a. group membership b. social conformity c. social power d. prejudice
In a classic memory study by Peterson and Peterson (1959), participants were given consonant strings to remember—such as DBX and HLM—and then instructed to count backwards from 100 by 3. After a variable amount of time (delay), the participants were asked to recall the consonant strings. Which statement accurately describes the results of the experiment?
A) There was no decrease in recall accuracy until the delay reached about 20 seconds. B) A 3-second delay decreased accuracy by almost 80%. C) A 20-second delay decreased accuracy by over 80%. D) There was no decrease in recall accuracy until the delay reached about 7 seconds.
In _________ conditioning the focus is on how organisms form anticipations about the environment; in _______ conditioning the focus is on what the organism does to act on the environment
a. classical; operant c. higher-order; classical b. operant; classical d. operant; higher-order