PSY 475 Psychological Tests and Measurements
University of Phoenix Material
Issues in Psychological Testing Worksheet
Using the text for this course, the University Library, the Internet, and/or other resources answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be at least 200 words in length.
1. What are at least two ethical issues associated with psychological testing? What impact do these issues have on the field of psychological testing?
2. What are at least two legal issues associated with psychological testing? How do these issues affect the field of psychological testing?
3. Which court case do you feel has had the largest impact on the field of psychological testing? Why?
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1. PSY 475 Psychological Tests and Measurements
University of Phoenix Material
Issues in Psychological Testing Worksheet
Using the text for this course, the University Library, the
Internet, and/or other resources answer the following questions.
Your response to each question should be at least 200 words in
length.
1. What are at least two ethical issues associated with
psychological testing? What impact do these issues have on the
field of psychological testing?
2. What are at least two legal issues associated with
psychological testing? How do these issues affect the field of
psychological testing?
3. Which court case do you feel has had the largest impact on
the field of psychological testing? Why?
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of 1
PSY475r2
Learning Theory: Skinner and Bandura - Topic Debate
Are parents responsible for the personality development and
subsequent behavior of their children?�� INCLUDEPICTURE
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Debate Guidelines:
The assigned Group A or B must provide a persuasive,
informational argument. Post this argument to the thread below.
Your argument may be a page of written text, a PowerPoint
presentation, a online video, or any other creative way of
conveying your information. The information you provide does
not have to be lengthy as long as it contains relevant
information and is expanded to clearly explain your position.
You are required to utilize and correctly reference one (1)
quality, academic sources to support your position. You should
use correct APA style in formatting your debate information.
The Groups A or B assigned to the weekly debate must post
their persuasive information by Thursday at midnight.
Finally, everyone in the class should read the debates and post
their own position. When responding to the debates, you just
need to write whether you support the "yes" or "no" side of the
debate with a sentence or two highlighting why you support that
position (also due on Sunday by midnight). You do not have to
agree with the side of the debate that you were assigned to
represent.
For complete information about the project, see the "Debate"
thread in the Course Home.�
4. to the following side of topic debates in week 5.
Debate topics:
Week�Debate Topic�Side��Week 5�Are parents responsible
for the personality development and subsequent behavior of
their children?��No��This�page is available to your group
members and the instructor. The other group cannot see
anything here.���Please�coordinate all your thoughts here as
a group to�compose�ONE persuasive information
(Friday).�One of your group members will post the information
in the weekly Topic Debate before the due date!��Your
participation in the group page is required and�your scores on
Topic Debate depends on�your contribution in the group
page.�
5. Learning Theory: Skinner and Bandura - Mastery 5�
��� ��
Question 1. 1.�During World War II, Skinner (Points : 1)
�������served in the Naval Air Force as a fighter
pilot.��������trained pigeons to pilot missiles into enemy
6. targets.��������worked in a VA hospital as a
psychotherapist.��������made an unsuccessful attempt to
become a U.S. senator.
Question 2. 2.�Which of the following is NOT a principal
characteristic of science, according to Skinner? (Points : 1)
�������Science explains behavior.��������Science
values empirical observation.��������Science is
cumulative.��������Science is a search for order and
lawful relationships.
Question 3. 3.�With what schedule of reinforcement is an
organism reinforced for the first response following a
designated period of time? (Points : 1)
�������continuous��������fixed-
ratio��������variable-ratio��������fixed-
interval��������variable-interval
7. Question 4. 4.�Elms believes that Skinner's midlife crisis ended
with (Points : 1)
�������the death of his father.��������his
marriage.��������his writing of Walden
Two.��������his election to the U.S. Senate.
Question 5. 5.�Skinner accepted the concept of unconscious
(Points : 1)
�������mental
processes.��������cognition.��������conflicts.���
�����behavior.��������motivation.
Question 6. 6.�In modeling, Bandura claims people are most
likely to attend to (Points : 1)
�������children.��������attractive
models.��������people of lower social
status.��������All of these are correct.
8. Question 7. 7.�In order for observational learning to lead to
new response patterns, Bandura claims that those patterns must
be (Points : 1)
�������symbolically represented in
memory.��������physically enacted
immediately.��������followed by reinforcement on a
continuous schedule.��������attended to in an accurate
and unbiased manner.
Question 8. 8.�With regard to learning, Bandura believes that
(Points : 1)
�������reinforcement does not facilitate
learning.��������reinforcement is essential to
learning.��������performance is the basic datum of
psychological science.��������learning can occur in the
absence of a response.
Question 9. 9.�A government official who sanctions spying on
and brutal physical harassment of legitimate, nonviolent
9. demonstrators because "they are a threat to national security" is
using Bandura's disengagement technique of (Points : 1)
�������moral justification.��������palliative
comparison.��������rationalization.��������persona
l attribution.
Question 10. 10.�Harrison, a professional photographer, is
dissatisfied with his latest work, judging several pictures as
substandard by his own criteria. Bandura would say that
Harrison will probably (Points : 1)
�������learn to live with substandard
performance.��������reward himself for his substandard
performance.��������withhold reward for substandard
performance.��������become psychologically disturbed.
���
10. Learning Theory: Skinner and Bandura - Review 5�
Question 1. 1.�The personalities, cognitive processes,
developmental histories, and social experiences of personality
theorists help shape their theories. The discipline that deals
with these factors is called (Points : 1)
�������personology.��������psychology.������
��sociology.��������the psychology of
science.��������psychobiology.
Question 2. 2.�A taxonomy is best defined as (Points : 1)
�������an educated guess.��������a set of if-then
statements.��������the study of the nature of
reality.��������a classification system.
11. Question 3. 3.�According to the authors of the text, personality
theories (Points : 1)
�������are former principles that have been proven
true.��������originate from the historical, social, and
psychological world of their originators.��������are
useful tools of science to the extent that they are value
free.��������should not be open to falsification.
Question 4. 4.�Which statement is most nearly true? (Points :
1)
�������A theory can be a practical guide for a
psychotherapist.��������Theory and practice are mutually
exclusive.��������Other things being equal, the more
complex a theory. the better.��������A good theory gives
opposing answers to a single question.
Question 5. 5.�According to Freud, ideas that slip in and out of
awareness with greater or lesser degrees of ease are (Points : 1)
�������unconscious.��������preconscious.������
12. ��conscious.��������repressed.��������censored.
Question 6. 6.�In psychoanalytic theory, anxiety (Points : 1)
�������is produced within, and experienced by, the
superego.��������can mean an impulse threatens to
become conscious.��������is produced by
repression.��������none of these is
correct.��������all of these are correct.
Question 7. 7.�An example of Freud's notion of projection
might be (Points : 1)
�������"Things will be better
tomorrow."��������"The only reason I failed is because I
had a headache."��������"I like him fine, but for some
reason he hates me."��������"I didn't really want that job
anyway."
Question 8. 8.�Freud hypothesized that a permissive, accepting
13. attitude of parents during toilet training is likely to lead to
which behaviors as the child grows to adulthood? (Points : 1)
�������generosity and
benevolence��������stubbornness, compulsiveness, and
miserliness��������masochism and/or
sadism��������sexual dysfunction and aggression
Question 9. 9.�Jared develops tension headaches while trying
to meet a deadline at work. This tactic allows him to escape
responsibility for meeting the deadline and to receive sympathy
from his boss and coworkers. According to Adler, Jared's
headaches are examples of (Points : 1)
�������an organ dialect.��������an organ
inferiority.��������an as-if illness.��������a fiction.
Question 10. 10.�One of Adler's strongest beliefs was in
(Points : 1)
�������equality of the sexes.��������his Jewish
faith.��������his Protestant faith.��������the
14. communist doctrine.
Question 11. 11.�Adler maintained that social interest is
(Points : 1)
�������inborn.��������acquired through
experience.��������inborn, but brought to expression
through experience.��������inborn in some people but
acquired by others.
Question 12. 12.�According to Adler, _______ is the bond that
holds society together. (Points : 1)
�������fiction��������the sex drive��������a
feeling of incompleteness��������social interest
Question 13. 13.�Freud's concept of phylogenetic endowment is
similar to Jung's idea of (Points : 1)
15. �������the ego.��������the self.��������the
personal
unconscious.��������archetypes.��������the
collective unconscious.
Question 14. 14.�According to Jung, individuation, or self-
realization, (Points : 1)
�������is a common occurrence among young
people.��������requires inflating the
ego.��������involves replacing the ego with the
self.��������develops one function exclusively.
Question 15. 15.�According to Jung, the shadow (Points : 1)
�������is the archetype of darkness and
repression.��������springs from the personal
conscious.��������represents humanity's search for
transcendence.��������All of these are correct.
16. Question 16. 16.�Because Jung was ______, Freud groomed
him to be his successor. (Points : 1)
�������Jewish��������unmarried��������Vienn
ese��������a lawyer��������None of these is
correct.
Question 17. 17.�Horney believed that children develop
__________ as a reaction to unfilled needs for love and
affection. (Points : 1)
�������basic hostility to their
parents��������codependence with their
parents��������independence from their
parents��������an Oedipus complex
Question 18. 18.�Horney was most critical of Freud's (Points :
1)
�������research
methods.��������observations.��������interpretatio
17. ns.��������lack of scientific data.��������honesty
of interpretation.
Question 19. 19.�Tami is proud of her intellectual skills and
abilities, and she is pleased when others notice and admire her
superior intelligence. These characteristics reflect Horney's
neurotic need for (Points : 1)
�������power.��������affection and
approval.��������independence.��������prestige.�
�������personal admiration.
Question 20. 20.�Horney believed that people are (Points : 1)
�������innately healthy.��������innately
neurotic.��������born with a potential for psychological
health, but that this potential must be��developed in a warm
and loving atmosphere.��������born with the potential for
psychological health, but that this potential must
be��developed in an atmosphere of competition.
18. Question 21. 21.�Fromm's concept of humanity includes the
notion that (Points : 1)
�������people are basically evil.��������people are
the freaks of nature.��������most people achieve positive
freedom.��������personality is shaped largely by
experiences during childhood and��preadolescence.
Question 22. 22.�Fromm held that our culture's current feelings
of anxiety, isolation, and powerlessness stem from (Points : 1)
�������the collective unconscious.��������the rise of
capitalism.��������lack of religious
values.��������basic human nature .
Question 23. 23.�In Fromm's productive strategy of attaining
rootedness, people (Points : 1)
�������are weaned from the protective orbit of the mother
or mother substitute.��������establish strong and lifelong
ties with their mother or mother substitute.��������see
19. their spouse as a new mother or mother
substitute.��������crave the security of a mother or
mother substitute.
Question 24. 24.�For Fromm, productive and caring creation
reflects the need for (Points : 1)
�������relatedness.��������transcendence.������
��rootedness.��������love.��������a frame of
orientation.
Question 25. 25.�The psychosocial crisis of young adulthood,
according to Erikson, is (Points : 1)
�������identity versus identity
confusion.��������competence versus
incompetence.��������intimacy versus
isolation.��������generativity versus stagnation.
Question 26. 26.�The "informed and detached concern with life
20. itself in the face of death itself" is how Erikson defined (Points
: 1)
�������mistrust.��������detachment.��������w
isdom.��������despair.��������isolation.
Question 27. 27.�Erikson claimed that a child who learns to do
a job well during the school age will develop a sense of (Points
: 1)
�������will.��������purpose.��������inferiorit
y.��������industry.��������autonomy.
Question 28. 28.�Freud's anal stage of development has a
parallel in Erikson's ______ stage. (Points : 1)
�������infancy��������toddler��������early
childhood��������phallic��������mastery
21. Question 29. 29.�Skinner believed that passive resistance is
most likely to be used (Points : 1)
�������before the strategy of escape.��������prior to
revolt.��������in conjunction with physical
restraint.��������after escape and revolt have
failed.��������as a form of negative reinforcement.
Question 30. 30.�Which of these would NOT be considered by
Skinner to be a generalized reinforcer? (Points : 1)
�������affection��������approval��������mon
ey��������attention��������food
Question 31. 31.�Skinner believed that the most useful data for
predicting and controlling behavior are (Points : 1)
�������people's psychological
components.��������people's
constitutions.��������people's conscious
perceptions.��������people's personal histories.
22. Question 32. 32.�For Skinner, an important distinction between
classical conditioning and operant conditioning is that in
classical conditioning behavior is _______, whereas in operant
conditioning behavior is ________. (Points : 1)
�������generalized; discriminated��������emitted;
elicited��������extinguished;
generalized��������recovered;
discriminated��������elicited; emitted
Question 33. 33.�Bandura's treatment technique that involves
the extinction of anxiety or fear through self- or therapist-
induced relaxation is (Points : 1)
�������overt modeling of behavior.��������vicarious
modeling.��������systematic
desensitization.��������enactive mastery.
Question 34. 34.�Bandura calls the capacity to exercise control
23. over our lives (Points : 1)
�������internal locus of control.��������free
will.��������human agency.��������external locus
of control.
Question 35. 35.�Unlike Skinner's behavioral analysis,
Bandura's social cognitive theory (Points : 1)
�������rejects the notion of goal-directed
behavior.��������discounts the importance of
reinforcement.��������recognizes the influence of chance
encounters.��������downplays the effects of higher
mental processes.
Question 36. 36.�Bandura discusses which two major types of
learning? (Points : 1)
�������observational and enactive��������engaged
and disengaged��������instinctive and
acquired��������conscious and
unconscious��������skillful and unskillful
