Question 1

Dr.Rick Malone mentioned all of the following possible consequences of threat assessment investigative activities EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  The investigation can have a significant negative impact on the person of interest's life due to the revelation of questionable behavior to friends, family, and business associates. 
B)  The investigation may inadvertently expand the nature of the threat, causing friends, family, business associates or others to become objects of the threat. 
C)  The investigation may "tip-off" the person of interest, causing that person to immediately cease any threat-related activities. 
D)  The investigation may "tip-off" the person of interest, causing that person to immediately escalate any threat-related activities.

Question 2

According to Dr.Rick Malone,students who are drawn to threat assessment work should make sure that they have a solid grounding in _____ psychology.

Accepted Answer

A)  personality 
B)  clinical 
C)  forensic 
D)  All of these

Question 3

"Certain personality traits exist in all people to varying degrees.The assessor's task is to determine what the strength of each of these traits are in the assessee." We would be MOST likely to hear this statement from one who

Accepted Answer

A)  has never taken a course in psychological testing and assessment. 
B)  views testing and assessment from a nomothetic viewpoint. 
C)  views testing and assessment from an idiographic viewpoint. 
D)  views testing and assessment from an ipsative perspective.

Question 4

"The unique way people interpret and make sense of their perceptions as a consequence of their learning experiences,cultural background,and related variables." This is a definition of which of the following terms?

Accepted Answer

A)  instrumental values 
B)  terminal values 
C)  worldview 
D)  acculturation

Question 5

Which statement is TRUE regarding state anxiety as compared to trait anxiety?

Accepted Answer

A)  State anxiety is a more enduring characteristic than trait anxiety. 
B)  Trait anxiety is a more enduring characteristic than state anxiety. 
C)  Neither state anxiety nor trait anxiety is an enduring characteristic. 
D)  State anxiety and trait anxiety are equally enduring characteristics.

Question 6

The MMPI-2 is appropriate for which age range?

Accepted Answer

A)  6 to 60 
B)  14 and older 
C)  18 and older 
D)  21 to 60

Question 7

When he turned __-years-old,a mountain gorilla named Cantsbee took over the leadership of what was to become the largest,ever-observed gorilla group.

Accepted Answer

A)  12 
B)  17 
C)  21 
D)  24

Question 8

It has become customary to refer to MMPI-2 clinical scales by number rather than by name because

Accepted Answer

A)  translators have been unable to accurately translate some of the names. 
B)  that is the way that Starke Hathaway always referred to them. 
C)  the scale names are outdated. 
D)  the scale names are too revealing.

Question 9

To ensure that a child's responses on a self-report personality measure are an accurate representation of the child,which of the following would be the BEST course of action for a clinician?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ask the child's parents and teachers to complete rating scales. 
B)  Consult with a personality researcher about the results. 
C)  Recheck the scores both by hand and by computer. 
D)  Conduct online research for the purpose of finding additional insights relative to the reason the assessment was undertaken.

Question 10

For Colonel Rick Malone,the practice of threat assessment entails,among other things,the gathering of intelligence designed to protect senior Department of Defense officials who are referred to as "principals".

Accepted Answer

A)  dignitaries 
B)  protectees 
C)  principals 
D)  VIPs

Question 11

Type A Personality and Type B Personality are two terms closely associated with

Accepted Answer

A)  the Self-Directed Search. 
B)  the Jenkins Activity Survey. 
C)  MMPI-2. 
D)  contestants on Let's Make a Deal.

Question 12

People characterized as "highly differentiated" are likely to

Accepted Answer

A)  experience self-perception disorders. 
B)  be extremely thin. 
C)  see themselves much the same way most of the time. 
D)  None of these

Question 13

Consider the list of terms that follows: happy
Sad
Smart
Challenged
Assertive
A list like this one is BEST associated with which type of test of personality?

Accepted Answer

A)  a free-choice test 
B)  a sentence completion test 
C)  an adjective checklist 
D)  a true-false test

Question 14

Which BEST describes a tool used to construct personality test items by means of logic?

Accepted Answer

A)  clinical information 
B)  endorsement of items by members of a particular clinical group 
C)  creation of items by means of factor analysis 
D)  All of these

Question 15

Psychologist John Holland was BEST known for

Accepted Answer

A)  a research program that led to the development of the Big 5. 
B)  a controversy regarding the primacy of states versus traits. 
C)  a theory that occupational choice depends on personality. 
D)  a tunnel linking New York and New Jersey, named in his honor.

Question 16

Gosling's cross-species work in personality assessment has suggested that differences in the personality of dogs exist and can be

Accepted Answer

A)  reliably measured. 
B)  distinguished by breed. 
C)  inherited from one generation to the next. 
D)  All of these

Question 17

Which of the following BEST sums up the reason why the MMPI-2-RF was developed?

Accepted Answer

A)  The MMPI-2 had too many overlapping items. 
B)  There were too many test items on the MMPI-2. 
C)  The MMPI-2 validity scales lacked validity. 
D)  All of these

Question 18

The Q-sort technique may not yield useful results if

Accepted Answer

A)  respondents are unwilling to reveal accurate information about themselves. 
B)  it is used outside of a humanistically-oriented clinical setting. 
C)  it is used by someone other than a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist. 
D)  All of these

Question 19

A lack of cross-situational consistency in traits has been demonstrated to exist with respect to

Accepted Answer

A)  honesty. 
B)  attitudes toward authority. 
C)  introversion-extraversion. 
D)  All of these

Question 20

The MMPI-A is

Accepted Answer

A)  the original MMPI-2 normed for adolescents. 
B)  the MMPI-2 normed for adolescents. 
C)  the MMPI-2-RF normed for adolescents. 
D)  a version of the MMPI for adolescents.

Exam 11: Personality Assessment: an Overview