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  1. The Rorschach Inkblot Test is classified as which type of personality assessment?

    Answer: Projective personality test

    The Rorschach is a projective test — ambiguous inkblots serve as stimuli onto which subjects project unconscious thoughts, feelings, and conflicts.

  2. Milgram's obedience experiments most significantly demonstrated that:

    Answer: Ordinary individuals could deliver dangerous shocks when ordered by an authority figure

    Milgram found that approximately 65% of participants administered what they believed were dangerous shocks when instructed by an authority figure, revealing the powerful situational influence of authority.

  3. The fundamental attribution error occurs when people:

    Answer: Overestimate dispositional (personal) factors and underestimate situational factors for others' behavior

    The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to explain others' behavior in terms of personality or character while ignoring the situational context they face.

  4. According to the DSM-5, a major depressive episode requires depressed mood or loss of interest plus at least how many additional symptoms lasting two weeks?

    Answer: 4 additional symptoms

    DSM-5 requires at least 5 total symptoms — the core symptom (depressed mood or anhedonia) plus at least 4 more — persisting for at least two weeks.

  5. A double-blind experimental design is used primarily to control for:

    Answer: Both experimenter bias and participant expectation effects simultaneously

    In a double-blind study, neither participants nor experimenters know who received which treatment, controlling for placebo effects and experimenter bias at the same time.

  6. Which Freudian defense mechanism involves unconsciously attributing one's own unacceptable impulses or feelings to another person?

    Answer: Projection

    Projection involves unconsciously attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts or impulses to others — for example, someone who is angry accuses others of being hostile.

  7. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which level sits at the very top of the pyramid?

    Answer: Self-actualization

    Self-actualization — realizing one's full potential and living a meaningful, fulfilling life — is the highest level of Maslow's hierarchy, reached only after lower needs are met.