When Anna looks at some modern artwork at the museum, she often thinks she sees human figures or faces and likes to make up stories about them
When she tells the stories to her friend, her friend says that the stories reflect Anna's unconscious thoughts. In psychological terms, what Anna does is most similar to ______.
a) classical conditioning
b) a projective test
c) behavior sampling
d) an objective test
ANS: B, Projective tests use ambiguous stimuli in the hope that the subject will project unconscious thoughts and feelings onto them.
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(a) characteristics (b) facets (c) personality units (d) internal trait sets
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a. occipital lobe b. temporal lobe c. parietal lobe d. frontal lobe
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