Exam 4: Personality Research Methods and Assessment Issues

An abstract concept that reflects the need for personality measure to stem from a theory is called:

Most personality studies are ________ and use a one-time assessment of a large sample of students.

The most common statistical test to evaluate the magnitude of a correlation is the:

In order to evaluate impression management, who created the Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding?

List some representative items from Paulhus's impression management and self-deception scales.

A ________ design refers to when a person is measured each time after being exposed to two or more levels of an independent variable.

Explain the differences between moderator and mediator effects.

In order to evaluate concurrent and discriminant validity, what technique is used?

The stability of test scores over time is referred to as:

A test item that simply seems relevant for measuring the personality construct in question is said to have:

A measure that has breadth because it has items that fully assess the personality construct in question is said to have:

If a personality scale is unrelated to a measure with which it theoretically should not be correlated, it is said to have:

The fact that correlation research cannot tell us which variable comes first when two variables are significantly correlated refers to the:

________ implies that extreme scores, upon retest, become more reflective of the actual mean for the overall sample as a whole.

A variable that is manipulated in an experiment is called the:

Participants in experiments often wish to be seen favourably and try to act in accordance with the experimenter's hypotheses. This relates to the concept of:

Parental reports of child personality features are often:

Differentiate between an independent and a dependent variable.

The link between variables due to a mutual link with another intervening variable results in:

A significant limitation of correlational research is that assumptions cannot be made about: