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Question 1

In an invented case, a man avoids applying for promotions he is qualified for. One psychologist accounts for this by saying he learned early, in a household where ambition was met with ridicule, that wanting more invites humiliation — and that he is not aware of having learned it. Which approach to personality is that explanation working within?

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Psychodynamic

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Social-cognitive

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Humanistic

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Trait

Question 2

An invented inventory places someone in the top few per cent for openness to experience. Which statement about that result is accurate?

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She sits near one end of a continuous dimension along which everyone is placed somewhere

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She will behave in an open manner in every situation, since traits are consistent by definition

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She is high on openness and therefore low on the other four dimensions, which trade off against one another

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She belongs to the open type, one of the five personality types the model recognises

Question 3

A projective technique presents a person with a deliberately ambiguous stimulus and invites them to say what they see, on the reasoning that what they supply comes from themselves. What is the principal scientific objection to techniques of this kind?

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Two trained scorers often reach different conclusions from the same responses, and the resulting scores predict poorly

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They take longer to administer than a questionnaire does

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The ambiguity makes the responses too uniform to tell people apart

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Respondents can work out what is being measured and present themselves favourably

Question 4

In an invented case, a woman describes worrying most days for the past two years about a shifting set of things — her work, a relative's health, money, whether a message was taken badly. Each worry is plausible on its own; what troubles her is that when one settles another takes its place, and she cannot put any of them down. She avoids nothing in particular. Which broad pattern of distress does this description match?

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An obsessive-compulsive pattern

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Panic-related distress

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Generalised anxiety

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A specific phobia

Question 5

In an invented session, a therapist asks a client to write down the thought that ran through her mind just before she felt worst, then to look for evidence for and against it, and finally to test it by doing the thing she expected to go badly. Which model of the mind does this technique follow from?

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Biomedical

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Cognitive-behavioural

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Psychodynamic

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Behavioural