Personality Exam Review

A test designed to measure management ability is found to be a very good predictor of how well an individual will function as a manager.  This test is said to be

•   Objective
•   Reliable
•   Standard
•   Valid

When an algebra teacher gives a test to her class to measure how much algebra her students have learned, she is giving an

• Achievement
• Intelligence
• Aptitude
• Interest

A college admissions test designed to find out whether an individual would make a good architect student based on the skills that person has is an example of an

• Achievement
• Intelligence
• Aptitude
• Interest

The Stanford-Binet test measures intelligence in terms of

• Mental Age
• Manual Dexterity
• Reading Ability
• Verbal Ability

A student ranks in the 85^th percentile on her college entrance exams. This means that

• 85 percent of her answer are correct
• 85 percent of the people who took the test in the standardized group scored lower
• 85 percent of the people who took the test in the standardized group scored higher
• The test is valid

If two teachers grade the same test and assign the same score, the test is said to have

• Test Retest Validity
• Validity
• Inter-Scorer Validity
• Split-Half Validity

According to Freud, the part of the psyche that prevents a person from stealing is the

• Ego
• Superego
• Id
• Collective Unconscious

Thinking someone is angry at you when in reality you are angry at yourself is called

• Regression
• Repression
• Reaction Formation
• Projection

A three-year-old child who has been toilet trained starts wetting the bed after the birth of a sibling.  This child is using the defense mechanism of

• Projection
• Repression
• Regression
• Displacement

Rewards and punishments are associated with

• Psychoanalysis
• Behavioral Psychology
• Trait Theory
• Humanistic Psychology