PSY 370 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS & VERIFIED ANSWERS
trait-descriptive adjectives - Answers - adjectives that can be used to describe
characteristics of people
Personality - Answers - The set of psychological traits and mechanisms within
individuals that's organized and relatively enduring and that influences their interactions
with, and adaptations to, the environment
Psychological traits - Answers - characteristics that describe ways in which people are
different and similar to each other
average tendencies - Answers - tendency to display a certain psychological trait with
regularity
Psychological mechanisms - Answers - Similar to traits, except that they refer more to
the processes of personality. Involve some information-processing activity. May make
people more sensitive to certain kinds of information from the environment (input), may
make them more likely to think about specific options (decision rules), or may guide
their behavior toward certain categories of action (outputs).
Within the individual - Answers - means that personality is something a person carries
with him or herself over time and from one situation to the next
Enduring - Answers - when psychological traits are stable over time
Influential forces - Answers - Personality traits and mechanisms can have an effect on
people's lives
Person-environment interaction - Answers - A person's interactions with situations
include perceptions, selections, evocations, and manipulations.
Perceptions - Answers - refer to how we see or interpret an environment
Selection - Answers - describes the maker in which we choose situations (our friends,
hobbies, classes, careers
Evocations - Answers - Refer to the reaction we produce in others, often unintentionally
Manipulations - Answers - The ways in which we intentionally attempt to influence
others
, Adaptation - Answers - a central feature of personality concerns adaptive functioning--
accomplishing goals, coping, adjusting, and dealing with the challenges and problems
we face going through life
Environment - Answers - can be social, physical, and intrapsychic. Which aspect of the
environment that's important at any given time is determined by the personality of that
person in that environment
Rose and Maya have been friends since high school. However, Rose is extremely shy
and rarely goes out, whereas Maya is outgoing and loves to travel and explore new
places. The differences in the characteristics of Rose and Maya are known as -
Answers - psychological traits
Traits describe the _____ of a person - Answers - average tendencies
Most psychological mechanisms have these 3 essential ingredients - Answers - inputs,
decision rules, outputs
_____ ______ _______ means that personality is something a person carries with
themselves over time from one situation to the next - Answers - within the individual
The term ___ means that the psychological traits and mechanisms for a person aren't a
random collection of elements - Answers - organized
Psychological traits are relatively ____ over time, particularly in adulthood, and are
somewhat consistent over situations - Answers - enduring
Personality plays a key force in affecting how people shape their lives. It is in this sense
that personality traits are forces that ... - Answers - influence how people think, act, and
feel
The nature of ____ - _____ _____ is complex and includes perceptions, selections, and
evocations - Answers - Person-environment interaction
Accomplishing goals, coping, adjusting, dealing with challenges and problems we face
through life refers to - Answers - Adaptive functioning
T or F: The ways in which people cope with their social environment -- the challenges
they encounter in their struggle for belongingness , love, and esteem-- don't influence
an understanding of personality - Answers - False
Features of personality make people different from each other, and these features
usually take form of - Answers - adjectives
Human nature - Answers - the traits and mechanisms of personality that are typical of
our species and our possessed by everyone or nearly everyone
trait-descriptive adjectives - Answers - adjectives that can be used to describe
characteristics of people
Personality - Answers - The set of psychological traits and mechanisms within
individuals that's organized and relatively enduring and that influences their interactions
with, and adaptations to, the environment
Psychological traits - Answers - characteristics that describe ways in which people are
different and similar to each other
average tendencies - Answers - tendency to display a certain psychological trait with
regularity
Psychological mechanisms - Answers - Similar to traits, except that they refer more to
the processes of personality. Involve some information-processing activity. May make
people more sensitive to certain kinds of information from the environment (input), may
make them more likely to think about specific options (decision rules), or may guide
their behavior toward certain categories of action (outputs).
Within the individual - Answers - means that personality is something a person carries
with him or herself over time and from one situation to the next
Enduring - Answers - when psychological traits are stable over time
Influential forces - Answers - Personality traits and mechanisms can have an effect on
people's lives
Person-environment interaction - Answers - A person's interactions with situations
include perceptions, selections, evocations, and manipulations.
Perceptions - Answers - refer to how we see or interpret an environment
Selection - Answers - describes the maker in which we choose situations (our friends,
hobbies, classes, careers
Evocations - Answers - Refer to the reaction we produce in others, often unintentionally
Manipulations - Answers - The ways in which we intentionally attempt to influence
others
, Adaptation - Answers - a central feature of personality concerns adaptive functioning--
accomplishing goals, coping, adjusting, and dealing with the challenges and problems
we face going through life
Environment - Answers - can be social, physical, and intrapsychic. Which aspect of the
environment that's important at any given time is determined by the personality of that
person in that environment
Rose and Maya have been friends since high school. However, Rose is extremely shy
and rarely goes out, whereas Maya is outgoing and loves to travel and explore new
places. The differences in the characteristics of Rose and Maya are known as -
Answers - psychological traits
Traits describe the _____ of a person - Answers - average tendencies
Most psychological mechanisms have these 3 essential ingredients - Answers - inputs,
decision rules, outputs
_____ ______ _______ means that personality is something a person carries with
themselves over time from one situation to the next - Answers - within the individual
The term ___ means that the psychological traits and mechanisms for a person aren't a
random collection of elements - Answers - organized
Psychological traits are relatively ____ over time, particularly in adulthood, and are
somewhat consistent over situations - Answers - enduring
Personality plays a key force in affecting how people shape their lives. It is in this sense
that personality traits are forces that ... - Answers - influence how people think, act, and
feel
The nature of ____ - _____ _____ is complex and includes perceptions, selections, and
evocations - Answers - Person-environment interaction
Accomplishing goals, coping, adjusting, dealing with challenges and problems we face
through life refers to - Answers - Adaptive functioning
T or F: The ways in which people cope with their social environment -- the challenges
they encounter in their struggle for belongingness , love, and esteem-- don't influence
an understanding of personality - Answers - False
Features of personality make people different from each other, and these features
usually take form of - Answers - adjectives
Human nature - Answers - the traits and mechanisms of personality that are typical of
our species and our possessed by everyone or nearly everyone
