____ 11. Psychologists believe that personality is largely theresult of a. genet

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____ 11. Psychologists believe that personality is largely theresult of
a. genetics. c. parental and peer influences.
b. multiple factors. d. responses to life stressors.
____ 12. Victims of sexual assault may experience strong stressreactions, intense anxiety, and flashbacks to
their attacks from environmental cues that remind them of beingattacked and helpless. If these
become frequent, intense, and debilitating the person may bediagnosed as suffering from
a. generalized anxiety disorder. c. posttraumatic stressdisorder.
b. panic disorder. d. social phobia.
____ 13. According to your authors, ________ is the most criticaldefense mechanism in psychoanalytic
theory.
a. denial c. projection
b. displacement d. repression
____ 14. An area of agreement between the psychodynamic andbehaviorist perspectives is
a. the belief that free will is an illusion.
b. the importance of sexuality and aggression as human motives thatdrive
personality.
c. the importance of the conscious mind.
d. their focus on the unconscious mind as it was conceptualized bySigmund Freud.
____ 15. The MMPI-1 and MMPI-2 are personality tests that aredesigned to
a. detect individual differences in personality patterns.
b. detect symptoms of mental disorders.
c. detect relationships between body types and personalitypatterns.
d. detect differences in interpretation of ambiguous stimuli.
____ 16. The fact that a general statement can be seen by fivedifferent individuals as being an insightful
analysis of their personality is most likely due to the
a. information given by the individuals.
b. skills of the assessor.
c. P. T. Barnum effect.
d. reliability and validity of personality assessment tools.
____ 17. A Freudian psychotherapist would assert that an alcoholicor a chain-smoker is stuck in what stage of
development?
a. Anal c. Latency
b. Genital d. Oral
____ 18. According to the authors, persons who employ theassessment technique of graphology are often
influenced by the ________ than they are by the actual differencesin people's writing styles.
a. availability heuristic c. hindsight bias
b. confirmation bias d. representativeness heuristic
____ 19. According to the data reported by the authors of the text,the single best predictor of suicide is
a. loss of a loved one. c. recent discharge from the hospital.
b. a previous attempt. d. unemployment.
____ 20. A strong intense fear of being in public or performingbehaviors in public is characteristic of
a. agoraphobia. c. panic disorder.
b. obsessive-compulsive disorder. d. social phobia.

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Try this: 11.A Genetics 12.C Posttraumatic stress disorder 13.A Denial 17.D oral 19.B A previous attempt. 20.D Social phobia

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