1 Psychology emerged as an independent science as a result of the work of

2 When psychology began, it studied

3 Initially the methods of psychology were modeled after the approach used in

4. The first famous spokesperson for behaviorism was

5. Behaviorism was a revolution against

6. According to Watson, personality is

7 . Personality refers to human characteristics that are

8 A potential weakness of traditional personality theories is that they were developed

9. The consistency or uniformity of the conditions and procedures for administering a psychological test is known as

10 . The reliability of a test is concerned with

11 . The test-retest method of establishing test reliability involves

12 . Predictive validity is determined by

13 . The type of validity concerned with a test's ability to measure a hypothetical

14. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is

15. One characteristic of all self-report inventories is

16. Compared to self-report inventories, projective personality tests are

17 . The Rorschach Inkblot Test

18. The assessment technique in which subjects make up stories in response to ambiguous pictures is the

19. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was developed in 1935 by

20 . Behavioral assessment procedures involve

21. Research on gender and ethnic variables personality test scores shows that

22 . The intensive study of a small number of subjects (or even a single subject) is called the _____________ approach.

23. The nomothetic approach to personality deals with

24. The clinical methods of research include

25. Case studies can be used for

26. The fundamental characteristic of scientific research is

27. To conduct an experiment properly, one must

28. In an experiment, the independent variable is

29. If both control and experimental groups show the same change in behavior following the experimental treatment, we can conclude that

30. In an experiment, the control group is

31. In Bandura's experiment on the imitation of aggressive behavior by children, the dependent variable was

32. The most precise method of psychological research is the ___________ method.

33. In the correlational approach, the purpose is to

34. Correlational research has shown that college students who scored high in the need for achievement also

35. A correlation coefficient of -1.00 indicates that

36. When two variables show a high correlation, what can we say about causality?

37 Theories are characterized by

38 For personality theories to be useful, they must be

39. The belief that we can freely choose the direction of our thoughts and behavior is

40. Personal theories are characterized by

41. Formal theories are characterized by

42. In personality theories, what importance is given to childhood experiences?

43. The fundamental issues in personality theory are

44. What role does the system of psychoanalysis play in the history of personality theory?

45 Freud developed his personality theory by

46. The population group that has received the least attention in personality research is

47. Projective techniques were inspired by

48. One limitation of the experimental method is that the subjects are

49. The word "persona" refers to

50. All of the following are techniques of assessment except