Psych 150 Midterm 1 UC Berkeley UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What does TSA stand for? traits, states, and acts
traits temperament, character, values; consistent characteristics of an individual;
internal cause: inside the individual
states emotional, mental; situation-specific reactions of an individual to the environment;
external cause: elicited by stimulus
, acts activities, behavior; situation-specific, short term, observable; internal cause: often
intentional
What are three other categories of individual physical appearence, social effects and evaluations, and talents and skills
differences?
personality characteristics of an individual that account for consistent patterns of feeling,
thinking, and behaving
comprehensiveness the ability of a theory to encompass all relevant phenomena
parsimony the ability of a theory to describe personality succinctly
What are the five issues personality theories should structure, process, growth and development, psychopathology, and change
address?
structure the enduring/stable aspects of personality
process the motivational aspects of personality
growth and development
psychopathology
change
What is the Amniotic Fluid Test? Why is it important to
know for this class?
bandwidth the range of phenomena covered by personality theory
fidelity the specificity of a personality theory's explanation of phenomena
principle of aggregation get many observations/measurements and average them into one score
reliability extent to which our measurements are stable, consistent, dependable, and can be
replicated
more precisely: the extent to which we can generalize from one observation (or
measurement) to another
validity extent to which a measure captures what we think it measures (theory about what
the measure means)
reliability vs. validity reliability (consistency) and validity (accuracy)
inter-rater reliability reliability across raters
test-retest reliability reliability across time
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What does TSA stand for? traits, states, and acts
traits temperament, character, values; consistent characteristics of an individual;
internal cause: inside the individual
states emotional, mental; situation-specific reactions of an individual to the environment;
external cause: elicited by stimulus
, acts activities, behavior; situation-specific, short term, observable; internal cause: often
intentional
What are three other categories of individual physical appearence, social effects and evaluations, and talents and skills
differences?
personality characteristics of an individual that account for consistent patterns of feeling,
thinking, and behaving
comprehensiveness the ability of a theory to encompass all relevant phenomena
parsimony the ability of a theory to describe personality succinctly
What are the five issues personality theories should structure, process, growth and development, psychopathology, and change
address?
structure the enduring/stable aspects of personality
process the motivational aspects of personality
growth and development
psychopathology
change
What is the Amniotic Fluid Test? Why is it important to
know for this class?
bandwidth the range of phenomena covered by personality theory
fidelity the specificity of a personality theory's explanation of phenomena
principle of aggregation get many observations/measurements and average them into one score
reliability extent to which our measurements are stable, consistent, dependable, and can be
replicated
more precisely: the extent to which we can generalize from one observation (or
measurement) to another
validity extent to which a measure captures what we think it measures (theory about what
the measure means)
reliability vs. validity reliability (consistency) and validity (accuracy)
inter-rater reliability reliability across raters
test-retest reliability reliability across time
