NAME:

I. ENCIRCLE THE LETTER OF THE CORRECT ANSWER

1. The personality test that was designed to distinguish between traits and states.

A.) MMPI
B.) STAI
C.) JAS
D.) MBTI

2. It is the transitory exhibition of some personality trait.

A.) Personality Trait

B.) Personality Types
C.) Personality States
D.) Personality Inventory

3. Paul Meehl's 2-point code derived from the numbers of the clinical scales on which the testtaker
achieved the highest or most pathological scores. Each digit in the code is not interchangeable, thus a
code of 12 could not be interpreted in exactly the same way as a code of 21.

A.) The first statement is true and the second statement is false.
B.) The first statement is false and the second statement is true.
C.) Both statements are true.
D.) Both statements are false.

4. For the MMPI-2, linear T scores were used for standardization of the following scales except for

A.) Validity scales

B.) Supplementary scales
C.) Scales 5 & 0 of the clinical scales
D.) Content scales

5. All of these pertain to validity scale except:

A.) The tendency to respond to a test item or interview question in some characteristic manner
regardless of the content of the item or question
B.) Subscale of a test designed to assist in judgment regarding how honestly the testtaker responded
C.) Can provide a shorthand indication of how honestly, diligently and carefully a testtaker responded to
test items
D.) Determines whether observed responses were products of response style, carelessness, deliberate
efforts to deceive or unintentional understanding

6. ________ are that which an individual prizes or the ideals an individual believes in.

A.) Culture
B.) Values
C.) Imagination
D.) Belief
 7. _______ is a process by which an individual assumes a pattern of behavior characteristic of other
people.

A.) Identity
B.) Values
C.) Identification
D.) Personality

8. Response style that has a tendency to make unusual or common responses

A.) Acquiescence
B.) Deviance
C.) Overly positive
D.) Extreme

9. An instrument designed to yield information relevant to how an individual sees him- or herself with
regard to selected psychological variables.

A.) Self
B.) Self-Concept Measure
C.) Self-Concept
D.) Response Style

10. A general tendency to rate everyone near the midpoint of a rating scale

A.) Severity Error

B.) Leniency Error
C.) Faking Good
D.) Error of Central Tendency

II. TRUE OR FALSE. WRITE T OR F.

11. ____ Culturation is an ongoing process by which an individual's thoughts, behaviors, values, worldview,
and identity develop in relation to general thinking, behavior, customs and values of a group.
12. ____ One of the best known applicants of Q-sort methodology in clinical and counseling settings was
advocated by the personality theorist and psychotherapist Carl Rogers.
13. ____ According to Idiographic view, certain personality traits can be applied to all people.
14. ____ Carl Rogers and Robert R. McCrae are the authors of the widely used Revised NEO Personality
Inventory
15. ____ It is our conviction that no substantive definition of personality can be applied with generality.
16. ____ Personality if determined by the particular empirical concepts which are part of theory of
personality employed by the observer.
17. ____ Personality is not a staple in development research.
18. ____A theory-based personality test can be developed using logic and reason, research, clinical
experience, and the opinions of experts might be used.
19. ____ A typical companion to logic, reason, and intuition in item development is theory.
20. ____Data reduction methods include several types of statistical techniques collectively known as item
analysis or group analysis.