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Psych 403 Exam 1 Questions and Correct
answers/ Latest Update / 2026\
2027
Psychology Triad
CORRECT ANSWER : 3 essential topics of psych; how people think,
feel, and behave
Personality
CORRECT ANSWER : An individual's characteristic pattern of
thought, emotion, and behavior
The whole person
CORRECT ANSWER : How all other areas of psychology come
together
Basic approach or paradigm
CORRECT ANSWER : A theoretical view of personality that focuses
on some phenomena and ignores others
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Trait approach
CORRECT ANSWER : -focuses on individuals differences in
personality and behavior and the psychological processes behind them
-This is the largest and most dominant approach b/c individual
differences are central to most everything
- focuses on how "every man is in certain respects like some other
men"
Biological approach
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on the way behavior and personality
are influenced in terms of the body
Psychoanalytic approach
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on the unconscious mind and internal
mental conflict (Freud)
Phenomenological approach
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on people's conscious experience of
the world
-Emphasizes experience, free will, and the meaning of life
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Humanistic psychology
CORRECT ANSWER : A type of phenomenological approach
HOW conscious awareness produces uniquely human attributes
(like creativity, free will, and existential anxiety); understand meaning
and basis of happiness
Cross-cultural personality research
CORRECT ANSWER : Type of phenomenological approach
emphasizes how the experience of reality might be different across
cultures
Learning and cognitive approaches
CORRECT ANSWER : How people change their behaviors as a result
of rewards, punishments, and life experiences
-Behaviorism, social learning theory, cognitive personality psychology
Social Learning Theory
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CORRECT ANSWER : How observation and self-evaluation determine
behavior
Classic behaviorism
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on overt behaviors
Cognitive personality
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on cognitive processes, including
perception,
memory, and thought
One Big Theory (OBT)
CORRECT ANSWER : Explains everything about personality
It's too difficult to do everything well
Funder's First Law
CORRECT ANSWER : Great strengths are usually great
weaknesses, and surprisingly often the opposite is true as well
There is no one real CORRECT ANSWER wer!
Psych 403 Exam 1 Questions and Correct
answers/ Latest Update / 2026\
2027
Psychology Triad
CORRECT ANSWER : 3 essential topics of psych; how people think,
feel, and behave
Personality
CORRECT ANSWER : An individual's characteristic pattern of
thought, emotion, and behavior
The whole person
CORRECT ANSWER : How all other areas of psychology come
together
Basic approach or paradigm
CORRECT ANSWER : A theoretical view of personality that focuses
on some phenomena and ignores others
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Trait approach
CORRECT ANSWER : -focuses on individuals differences in
personality and behavior and the psychological processes behind them
-This is the largest and most dominant approach b/c individual
differences are central to most everything
- focuses on how "every man is in certain respects like some other
men"
Biological approach
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on the way behavior and personality
are influenced in terms of the body
Psychoanalytic approach
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on the unconscious mind and internal
mental conflict (Freud)
Phenomenological approach
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on people's conscious experience of
the world
-Emphasizes experience, free will, and the meaning of life
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Humanistic psychology
CORRECT ANSWER : A type of phenomenological approach
HOW conscious awareness produces uniquely human attributes
(like creativity, free will, and existential anxiety); understand meaning
and basis of happiness
Cross-cultural personality research
CORRECT ANSWER : Type of phenomenological approach
emphasizes how the experience of reality might be different across
cultures
Learning and cognitive approaches
CORRECT ANSWER : How people change their behaviors as a result
of rewards, punishments, and life experiences
-Behaviorism, social learning theory, cognitive personality psychology
Social Learning Theory
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CORRECT ANSWER : How observation and self-evaluation determine
behavior
Classic behaviorism
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on overt behaviors
Cognitive personality
CORRECT ANSWER : Focuses on cognitive processes, including
perception,
memory, and thought
One Big Theory (OBT)
CORRECT ANSWER : Explains everything about personality
It's too difficult to do everything well
Funder's First Law
CORRECT ANSWER : Great strengths are usually great
weaknesses, and surprisingly often the opposite is true as well
There is no one real CORRECT ANSWER wer!
