CLEP Psychology 3

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Projective personality test

Answer

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

Question 2

Milgram's obedience experiments most significantly demonstrated that:

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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.

Question 3

The fundamental attribution error occurs when people:

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

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

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

Answer

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.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Both experimenter bias and participant expectation effects simultaneously

Answer

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.

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CLEP Psychology 3