Drawing on the examples provided in your textbook, identify at least three specific purposes for which personality tests may have a practical application in one's life.
What will be an ideal response?
The textbook mentions the following as practical uses for personality tests: (1) They can be used to identify who is at risk for suicide. (2) Career counselors can use them to help people make vocational decisions. (3) Employers can use them to determine if a person is a good fit for the job. (4) They can be used to identify those at risk for mental health problems. (5) They can be used in the courtroom, in cases involving the death penalty, employment lawsuits, child custody, and immigration.
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When Max's father installed a new ceiling fan in his room, the "whirring" sound initially disturbed Max's sleep. After a few nights, however, Max was back to sleeping normally, as if the fan did not bother him at all. Max's filtering out of the fan's noise is best described as ____
a. attention b. habituation c. mental hardware d. mental software
Why is it thought that the human infant spends about half of its sleep time in REM?
a. ?to provide an adequate energy supply for organ maturation b. ?to provide the stimulation necessary to facilitate brain “wiring” c. ?to reinforce behaviors or skills observed during wakefulness d. ?to reduce the stimulation that otherwise interferes with brain network pruning
When 20-year-old Larry was first diagnosed with schizophrenia, his family wanted to know if and how the disorder would progress and how it would affect him in the future. In medical terms, the family wanted to know Larry's
a. diagnosis b. prognosis. c. pathophysiology. d. disease etiology.
Which of these is NOT among the several hypotheses that have been offered to explain ethnic/social class differences in IQ?
a. The disease/general health hypothesis b. The cultural test bias hypothesis c. The environmental hypothesis d. The genetic hypothesis