CLEP Psychology 3

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Projective personality test

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Objective personality test

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Behavioral rating scale

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Neuropsychological test

Question 2

Milgram's obedience experiments most significantly demonstrated that:

Accepted Answer

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

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People are innately aggressive toward strangers

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Most people refuse to harm others regardless of authority

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Conformity only affects psychologically weak individuals

Question 3

The fundamental attribution error occurs when people:

Accepted Answer

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

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Overestimate situational factors when explaining others' behavior

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Attribute their own failures to bad luck rather than ability

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Assume others share their own attitudes and beliefs

Question 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?

Accepted Answer

4 additional symptoms

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2 additional symptoms

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6 additional symptoms

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7 additional symptoms

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Both experimenter bias and participant expectation effects simultaneously

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Random assignment errors only

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All possible confounding variables in an experiment

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Demand characteristics among participants alone

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Projection

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Rationalization

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Displacement

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Sublimation

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Self-actualization

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Esteem needs

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Safety and security needs

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Love and belonging needs