PSYC 387 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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1. Clicker Questions:
the goal of personality psychology is to... - ANSWER ✔ explain the whole
person in his or her daily environment--- its not just how you think, but its
also how you feel and behave
2. Clicker Question:
The basic approaches or paradigms of personality psychology - ANSWER ✔
Are useful because one approach cannot sufficiently explain all of
personality
3. Clicker Question: which of the following is a strength of a personality
psychology? - ANSWER ✔ It is inclusive, interesting and important
4. personal vs situational influences - ANSWER ✔ personality--- how different
one is from another, how they behave in different situations
both personality and situational factors influence behavior
,5. personality - ANSWER ✔ consistent behavior patterns and intrapersonal
processes originating within the individual
CONSISTENT & STABLE
6. psychological triad - ANSWER ✔ the combination of how people think, feel
and behave
7. personality psychologists overlap with clinical psychologists because... -
ANSWER ✔ both attempt to understand the whole person
8. single trait--- self-monitoring - ANSWER ✔ low self-monitors--- self-
directed, consistent, honest, independent
high self-monitors--- carefully survey situation, adaptable
9. many trait approach - ANSWER ✔ examine correlation between one
behavior and many traits
10.delay of gratification - ANSWER ✔ necessary for achieving many important
goals
ego control, ego resiliency
11.essential trait approach - ANSWER ✔ various apporaches to reducing the
many to a few
,12.Who originally said that change is the only constant? - ANSWER ✔ Roman
philosopher Lucretius 2,000 years ago
13.When was Darwins Origin of Species written? - ANSWER ✔ 1859
14.Describe Darwin's theory of natural selection. - ANSWER ✔ There is, he
argued, tremendous variation among the members of any given species.
15.Some of these variations are well suited to current conditions; others are not.
Individuals with favorable variations are more likely to survive and
reproduce, so succeeding generations are more likely to show helpful
characteristics. Thus, features that contribute to survival are "selected" by
the environment, a process Darwin called natural selection.
16.Was Darwin aware of the genetic basis for evolution by natural selection? -
ANSWER ✔ no
17.Who was the first person to understand the role of genetics? - ANSWER ✔
Gregor Mendel (father of genetics) published his work in 1866.
Which defense mechanism would suggest, for example, that if a person's
deep urges are to express hostility and to argue, that perhaps they should
become a prosecutor?
Topic: n/a
a. Sublimation
b. Projection
c. Intellectualization
d. Rationalization - ANSWER ✔ A
18.Sublimation is the defense mechanism by which base and forbidden
impulses are transformed into constructive behaviors (see "Sublimation").
, 19.A leakage from the unconscious mind manifesting as a mistake, accident,
omission, or memory lapse—in the common parlance, a "Freudian slip"—is
referred to technically as what?
Topic: n/a
a. Sublimation
b. Humor
c. Intellectualization
d. Parapraxis - ANSWER ✔ D
Freud was never willing to believe that anything—especially these "slips"—
happened without reasons (see "Parapraxes").
20.Freud saw wit as a form of which defense mechanism?
Topic: n/a
a. Denial
b. Repression
c. Sublimation
d. Projection - ANSWER ✔ C
Freud saw wit as a form of sublimation: An impulse that otherwise would be
anxiety-provoking or harmful is vented in a way that makes it safely
enjoyable (see "Humor").
21.The criticism that Freud's theories are not confirmable by experimentation
refers to which scientific principle?
Topic: n/a
a. Disconfirmability
b. Parsimony
c. Null-hypothesis significance testing
d. Falsifiability - ANSWER ✔ A
A scientific theory should imply a set of observations or results that, if
found, would prove it to be false (see "Untestability").
22.One criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis evokes the principle of Occam's
razor, which states that:
Topic: n/a
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<NEWEST VERSION>
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1. Clicker Questions:
the goal of personality psychology is to... - ANSWER ✔ explain the whole
person in his or her daily environment--- its not just how you think, but its
also how you feel and behave
2. Clicker Question:
The basic approaches or paradigms of personality psychology - ANSWER ✔
Are useful because one approach cannot sufficiently explain all of
personality
3. Clicker Question: which of the following is a strength of a personality
psychology? - ANSWER ✔ It is inclusive, interesting and important
4. personal vs situational influences - ANSWER ✔ personality--- how different
one is from another, how they behave in different situations
both personality and situational factors influence behavior
,5. personality - ANSWER ✔ consistent behavior patterns and intrapersonal
processes originating within the individual
CONSISTENT & STABLE
6. psychological triad - ANSWER ✔ the combination of how people think, feel
and behave
7. personality psychologists overlap with clinical psychologists because... -
ANSWER ✔ both attempt to understand the whole person
8. single trait--- self-monitoring - ANSWER ✔ low self-monitors--- self-
directed, consistent, honest, independent
high self-monitors--- carefully survey situation, adaptable
9. many trait approach - ANSWER ✔ examine correlation between one
behavior and many traits
10.delay of gratification - ANSWER ✔ necessary for achieving many important
goals
ego control, ego resiliency
11.essential trait approach - ANSWER ✔ various apporaches to reducing the
many to a few
,12.Who originally said that change is the only constant? - ANSWER ✔ Roman
philosopher Lucretius 2,000 years ago
13.When was Darwins Origin of Species written? - ANSWER ✔ 1859
14.Describe Darwin's theory of natural selection. - ANSWER ✔ There is, he
argued, tremendous variation among the members of any given species.
15.Some of these variations are well suited to current conditions; others are not.
Individuals with favorable variations are more likely to survive and
reproduce, so succeeding generations are more likely to show helpful
characteristics. Thus, features that contribute to survival are "selected" by
the environment, a process Darwin called natural selection.
16.Was Darwin aware of the genetic basis for evolution by natural selection? -
ANSWER ✔ no
17.Who was the first person to understand the role of genetics? - ANSWER ✔
Gregor Mendel (father of genetics) published his work in 1866.
Which defense mechanism would suggest, for example, that if a person's
deep urges are to express hostility and to argue, that perhaps they should
become a prosecutor?
Topic: n/a
a. Sublimation
b. Projection
c. Intellectualization
d. Rationalization - ANSWER ✔ A
18.Sublimation is the defense mechanism by which base and forbidden
impulses are transformed into constructive behaviors (see "Sublimation").
, 19.A leakage from the unconscious mind manifesting as a mistake, accident,
omission, or memory lapse—in the common parlance, a "Freudian slip"—is
referred to technically as what?
Topic: n/a
a. Sublimation
b. Humor
c. Intellectualization
d. Parapraxis - ANSWER ✔ D
Freud was never willing to believe that anything—especially these "slips"—
happened without reasons (see "Parapraxes").
20.Freud saw wit as a form of which defense mechanism?
Topic: n/a
a. Denial
b. Repression
c. Sublimation
d. Projection - ANSWER ✔ C
Freud saw wit as a form of sublimation: An impulse that otherwise would be
anxiety-provoking or harmful is vented in a way that makes it safely
enjoyable (see "Humor").
21.The criticism that Freud's theories are not confirmable by experimentation
refers to which scientific principle?
Topic: n/a
a. Disconfirmability
b. Parsimony
c. Null-hypothesis significance testing
d. Falsifiability - ANSWER ✔ A
A scientific theory should imply a set of observations or results that, if
found, would prove it to be false (see "Untestability").
22.One criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis evokes the principle of Occam's
razor, which states that:
Topic: n/a
