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UNR PSY 435 Test 1 with verified detailed answers
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What is personality? Describe the major components of the textbook definition
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Pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give consistency and
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individuality to a person's behavior || || || ||
What is the "psychology of science"?
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Examines how scientist's personalities, cognitive processes, developmental histories, and
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social experiences affect the kind of science they conduct and the theories they create
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How did Hippocrates conceptualize personality?
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Personality is based on our four bodily fluids called humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile,
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black bile) ||
How did Plato conceptualize personality?
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The soul consists of 3 basic forces that guide behavior (1. Reason, 2. Emotion, 3. Appetite )
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How did Descartes conceptualize personality?
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Personality is formed between the interaction of divine and primal forces.
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How did Machiavelli conceptualize personality?
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Human behavior is driven by virtue (confidence) and fortuna (luck)
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Describe all the components of a useful scientific theory.
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-Is falsifiable (either supports or fails to support a theory's results)
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-Organizes data ||
-Guides actions ||
-Is internally consistent (components are logically compatible)
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-Is parsimonious (if two theories are equal in usefulness, the simpler one is preferred)
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Determinism vs free choice || || ||
Are behaviors predetermined and out of our control or of our own free will?
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Pessimism vs. optimism || ||
Are we doomed to live miserably, or can we change our life to live happily
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Causality vs. Teleology || ||
Do we act based on past experiences or based on future expectations?
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Conscious vs Unconscious || ||
Are we aware of what we are doing and why we're doing it or do unconscious forces drive
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us to behave the way we do?
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UNR PSY 435 Test 1 with verified detailed answers
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What is personality? Describe the major components of the textbook definition
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Pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give consistency and
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individuality to a person's behavior || || || ||
What is the "psychology of science"?
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Examines how scientist's personalities, cognitive processes, developmental histories, and
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social experiences affect the kind of science they conduct and the theories they create
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How did Hippocrates conceptualize personality?
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Personality is based on our four bodily fluids called humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile,
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black bile) ||
How did Plato conceptualize personality?
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The soul consists of 3 basic forces that guide behavior (1. Reason, 2. Emotion, 3. Appetite )
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How did Descartes conceptualize personality?
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Personality is formed between the interaction of divine and primal forces.
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How did Machiavelli conceptualize personality?
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, 2
Human behavior is driven by virtue (confidence) and fortuna (luck)
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Describe all the components of a useful scientific theory.
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-Is falsifiable (either supports or fails to support a theory's results)
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-Organizes data ||
-Guides actions ||
-Is internally consistent (components are logically compatible)
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-Is parsimonious (if two theories are equal in usefulness, the simpler one is preferred)
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Determinism vs free choice || || ||
Are behaviors predetermined and out of our control or of our own free will?
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Pessimism vs. optimism || ||
Are we doomed to live miserably, or can we change our life to live happily
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Causality vs. Teleology || ||
Do we act based on past experiences or based on future expectations?
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Conscious vs Unconscious || ||
Are we aware of what we are doing and why we're doing it or do unconscious forces drive
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us to behave the way we do?
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