The Two Major Kinds of Measures Used by Psychologists to Measure

question 13

Multiple Choice

The two major kinds of measures used by psychologists to measure personality are:

• A)naturalistic observations and projective techniques.
• B)naturalistic observations and self-report inventories.
• C)personality inventories and naturalistic observations.
• D)personality inventories and projective techniques.

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Definitions:

State-Dependent Learning

The phenomenon that recall is easier when the pharmacological state of the person at recall matches his or her pharmacological state during encoding.

Retrieval Processes

The cognitive operations involved in bringing stored information back into consciousness or into active use.

Encoding Variability

The way the encoding of information varies as a function of context.

Procedural Memory

A type of long-term memory responsible for knowing how to perform different actions and skills, essentially the memory of how to do things.