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Question 1: A woman feels she is successful when she contributes to a group effort that succeeds. She prefers to not draw attention to herself and cooperation over competition. The woman is probably from a(n)

a. individualistic culture.
b. collectivist culture.
c. male-dominated family.

Question 2: Which of the following statements is true about theories of personality?

a. They provide only a part of the picture of human personality.
b. They support the expert’s viewpoint.
c. Theories are predicted from one hypothesis or another.
d. They are directly tested using empirical methods.

Question 3: A researcher maintains that a person's self-esteem level is largely inherited from his or her parents. From this she derives the prediction that children with low self-esteem probably come from homes where one or both parents have low self-esteem. In this case, the prediction is the

a. theory.
b. hypothesis.
c. independent variable.
d. dependent variable.

Question 4: Personality researchers take steps to discover the nature of personality in which order?

a. Generate hypotheses, evaluate data, and speculate
b. Generate hypotheses, collect data, and evaluate data
c. Collect data, evaluate data, and speculate
d. Speculate, collect data, and generate hypotheses

Question 5: A researcher divides participants into those who suffer from insomnia and those who sleep well. He compares the two groups on the number of hours each spends at leisure activities in an average week. He finds the insomniacs spend significantly fewer hours at such activities than do the participants who sleep well. In this example, the number of hours spent at leisure activities is:

a. the independent variable.
b. the dependent variable.
c. confounded with which group the participant is in.
d. the hypothesis.

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