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Match the most applicable stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model with each hypothetical successful or failed judgment. -A judge accurately identifies another person's trait.


A) Availability
B) Relevance
C) Utilization
D) Detection
E) Judgment
F) Understanding

G) B) and E)
H) B) and C)

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Research from multiple psychological domains has demonstrated that first impressions are


A) not at all accurate in judging personality.
B) accurate in judging most of the Big Five personality traits.
C) accurate in judging athleticism.
D) only accurate in judging how neurotic someone is.

E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Doug has known Manesh for more than 20 years. Jim has only known Manesh since he joined Jim's department at Acme Advertising Agency two months ago. According to Colvin and Funder's (1991) study of the boundaries on the acquaintanceship effect, if both Doug and Jim are asked to predict how Manesh will behave during a presentation at work next week, whose predictions will be more accurate?


A) Doug's
B) Jim's
C) The two predictions will be about equally accurate.
D) Neither Doug's nor Jim's; such behavior is not predictable.

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the textbook as a potential moderator of accuracy?


A) qualities of personality judges
B) qualities of the target of the judgment
C) the amount of information available to judges
D) the age of the target of the judgment

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Match the most applicable stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model with each hypothetical successful or failed judgment. -An attentive judge notices important patterns in a target's speech.


A) Availability
B) Relevance
C) Utilization
D) Detection
E) Judgment
F) Understanding

G) A) and B)
H) E) and F)

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Match the most applicable stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model with each hypothetical successful or failed judgment. -Jake makes a judgment of Marla's high conscientiousness based on her friendliness.


A) Availability
B) Relevance
C) Utilization
D) Detection
E) Judgment
F) Understanding

G) A) and C)
H) All of the above

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Maria realizes that it is easy for her to talk to people at parties and that she is therefore high in extraversion. To what component of the Realistic Accuracy Model (RAM) does this realization speak?


A) relevance
B) detection
C) utilization
D) observation

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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In making an overall judgment of your personality, which person should be MOST accurate?


A) a teacher
B) a lifelong best friend
C) a trained clinical psychologist
D) a classmate who has seen you most recently

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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When Andrew argues that some interpretations of reality are more correct than others, he is advocating the ________ philosophical position.


A) realist
B) positivist
C) empiricist
D) constructivist

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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The finding that more observable traits yield better interjudge agreement suggests that peer judgment is based more on ________ than on ________.


A) expectancies; the target's self-judgments
B) a manufactured reputation; direct behavioral observation
C) direct behavioral observation; a manufactured reputation
D) stereotypes; expectancies

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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The statement "There is no such thing as objective reality, only human ideas or perceptions of reality" would MOST likely be made by a(n) ________. The statement "The absence of perfect, infallible criteria for truth does not force us to conclude that all interpretations of reality are equally likely to be correct" would MOST likely be made by a(n) ________.


A) constructivist; empiricist
B) constructivist; critical realist
C) critical realist; empiricist
D) empiricist; critical realist

E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

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One difficulty that early researchers encountered in identifying the good judge of personality was that


A) a good judge in one context was not always a good judge in other contexts.
B) clinical psychologists dismissed the findings, claiming that good judgment of others required extensive training.
C) no one could measure personality objectively in the first place.
D) researchers did not have the statistical tools to study accuracy.

E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

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A good judge of personality seems to be high in


A) agency.
B) self-monitoring.
C) communion.
D) absorption.

E) All of the above
F) A) and B)

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According to the text, ________ describes a context where social norms tend to restrict what people do.


A) a weak situation
B) an unstructured conversation
C) a strong situation
D) situationism

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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A salesperson has been married for 10 years, but her husband has never seen her do her job. According to the textbook, which of the following statements is true regarding the accurate prediction of her behavior during her work?


A) Her customers will be about as accurate as her husband in predicting her behavior at work.
B) Her husband will be much more accurate than her customers in predicting her behavior at work.
C) Her customers will be much more accurate than her husband in predicting her behavior at work.
D) None of the answer options is true.

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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Based on recent research, what approach for job interviews might be the best?


A) written responses to open-ended questions
B) telephone interviews
C) face-to-face interviews
D) computer-mediated interviews

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Consider the following scenario: A child cries for his father to take him to the park while they are at the library. Which of the following represents a likely reason that accurate judgment of the child's extraversion might fail?


A) Important cues for extraversion are not displayed.
B) The situation doesn't allow for the display of extraversion.
C) A judge sees the tantrum and recognizes that the information isn't relevant.
D) A judge is highly intelligent and notices important cues.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Andersen (1984) found that the quality of information affected the accuracy of personality judgments. According to the results of this study, information obtained from which actions would MOST likely lead to a social impression that corresponds to the target's self-assessment?


A) listening to the target describe his or her overt behaviors
B) observing the person's behaviors at work
C) watching a 5-minute videotaped interaction between the target and an opposite-sex stranger
D) listening to the target describe his or her thoughts and feelings

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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According to a recent study described in the textbook, which of the following is accurate about people who describe themselves as "a good judge of personality"?


A) Such people are much better than others at judging personality.
B) Such people are no more accurate than others at judging personality.
C) Such people are quite high in narcissism.
D) Such people are quite high in self-esteem.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Broadly speaking, improving the accuracy of personality judgments depends notably on how well everyone is able to


A) be himself or herself.
B) talk to one another.
C) behave the same in the same situation.
D) be polite in social situations.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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