Personality Psych Exam 1 ch 1-4 Questions and Answers with Verified Solutions
2025
Personality psychology - ✔✔the scientific study of the psychological forces that make people uniquely
themselves, studies how people think, feel, and behanve
Perspectives for studying personality (Eight) - ✔✔unconscious, ego, cognitive, biological, conditioning,
traits, spiritual, person-situation ineraction
Barnum effect - ✔✔The tendency to consider a personal description accurate if it is stated in very
general terms.
Ego forces - ✔✔One of the things that sets humans apart from other animals is the ability to self-reflec,
provides a sense of identity or self
Temperament - ✔✔An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding.
subjective assessment - ✔✔measurement that relies on interpretation.
strengths and weaknesses of subjective assement - ✔✔-different observers may make different
judgement
-complex phenomena may be examined and valuable insight gained
Reliability - ✔✔Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
validity - ✔✔Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is
supposed to predict
acquiescence response set - ✔✔"yes", "agree", "true of me"
, social desirability response set - ✔✔the "good" or "correct" answer, the answer that reflects well on the
test-taker
ethnic and gender bias - ✔✔a characteristic that is a strength in one group may be perceived as a
weakness or deficiency in another
expressive behavior measures - ✔✔the analysis of how people stand, move, speak etc
demographics and lifestyle - ✔✔uses information about a person's age, place of birth, gender, family
size, etc., cant help researchers undesrtand people based on their everyday lives
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - ✔✔Focus on the influences of early childhood, Emphasis on
unconscious motives/conflicts, Primary focus on sexual and aggressive urges
psychic determinism - ✔✔the assumption leads directly to the conclusion that many important mental
processes are unconcious
internal structure - ✔✔the mind has an internal structure made of parts that can function independently
and, in some cases, conflict with each other
manifest content - ✔✔the content of a dream that a person remembers
latent content - ✔✔the underlying hidden meaning of a dream
ID - ✔✔sole motivation is a relentless quest for pleasure-freud invisioned as chaotic, impulsive, and a
vessel for pure stimulation
ego - ✔✔mediates and facilitates all sensation and perception from the outside world-makes judgement
that meet the demands of external reality
-only part of psyche that is in contact with physical and social reality.
2025
Personality psychology - ✔✔the scientific study of the psychological forces that make people uniquely
themselves, studies how people think, feel, and behanve
Perspectives for studying personality (Eight) - ✔✔unconscious, ego, cognitive, biological, conditioning,
traits, spiritual, person-situation ineraction
Barnum effect - ✔✔The tendency to consider a personal description accurate if it is stated in very
general terms.
Ego forces - ✔✔One of the things that sets humans apart from other animals is the ability to self-reflec,
provides a sense of identity or self
Temperament - ✔✔An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of responding.
subjective assessment - ✔✔measurement that relies on interpretation.
strengths and weaknesses of subjective assement - ✔✔-different observers may make different
judgement
-complex phenomena may be examined and valuable insight gained
Reliability - ✔✔Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings
validity - ✔✔Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict what it is
supposed to predict
acquiescence response set - ✔✔"yes", "agree", "true of me"
, social desirability response set - ✔✔the "good" or "correct" answer, the answer that reflects well on the
test-taker
ethnic and gender bias - ✔✔a characteristic that is a strength in one group may be perceived as a
weakness or deficiency in another
expressive behavior measures - ✔✔the analysis of how people stand, move, speak etc
demographics and lifestyle - ✔✔uses information about a person's age, place of birth, gender, family
size, etc., cant help researchers undesrtand people based on their everyday lives
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - ✔✔Focus on the influences of early childhood, Emphasis on
unconscious motives/conflicts, Primary focus on sexual and aggressive urges
psychic determinism - ✔✔the assumption leads directly to the conclusion that many important mental
processes are unconcious
internal structure - ✔✔the mind has an internal structure made of parts that can function independently
and, in some cases, conflict with each other
manifest content - ✔✔the content of a dream that a person remembers
latent content - ✔✔the underlying hidden meaning of a dream
ID - ✔✔sole motivation is a relentless quest for pleasure-freud invisioned as chaotic, impulsive, and a
vessel for pure stimulation
ego - ✔✔mediates and facilitates all sensation and perception from the outside world-makes judgement
that meet the demands of external reality
-only part of psyche that is in contact with physical and social reality.
