PSY 352 Midterm 1 NEWEST 2026-2027 ACTUAL
EXAM COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+ BRAND
NEW!!
6 approaches to personality - CORRECT ANSWER: psychoanalytic
traits
biological
humanistic
behavioral/social learnings
cognitive
act frequency approach - CORRECT ANSWER: views traits as descriptions
act nomination
prototypicality judgment
recording of act performance
act nomination - CORRECT ANSWER: procedure designed to identify which acts belong in
which trait categories
researchers can identify hundreds of acts belonging to various trait categories
activity level - CORRECT ANSWER: the infants overall motor activity, including leg and arm
movements
adjacency - CORRECT ANSWER: how close the traits are together in the circumplex pie
traits next to each other are positively correlated
,advantage of factor analysis - CORRECT ANSWER: provides means for determining which
personality variables have some common property
useful in reducing the large array of diverse personality traits into a smaller and more useful set
of underlying factors
means for organizing the thousands of personality traits
advantages to circumplex - CORRECT ANSWER: it provides an explicit definition of
interpersonal behavior
this makes it possible to locate any transaction in which the resources of status and love are
exchanged within a specific region of the circumplex pie
it specifies the relationships between each trait and every other trait within the model
there are 3 types of relationships: adjacency, bipolarity, orthogonality
it alerts investigators to gaps in investigations of interpersonal behavior
aggregation - CORRECT ANSWER: averaging as a tool for assessing personality traits
agreeableness - CORRECT ANSWER: sympathetic, kind, warm vs. unsympathetic, harsh, cruel
behavioral/social learnings approach - CORRECT ANSWER: conditioning, learned expectation
biological approach - CORRECT ANSWER: inherited predispositions, physiological processes
biological underpinnings - CORRECT ANSWER: 2 criteria: heritability and identifiable
physiological substrate
all 3 super traits are highly heritable
bipolarity - CORRECT ANSWER: traits that are located on opposite sides of each other
these traits are negatively correlated
, Cattell's 16 personality factor system - CORRECT ANSWER: true factors of personality should
be found across different types of data such as S-data and T-data
among the largest in number of factors identified as basic traits
circumplex taxonomies - CORRECT ANSWER: started with the lexical hypothesis
trait terms specify different kinds of ways in which individuals differ
one kind of individual difference is interpersonal traits
mainly concerned with interpersonal traits so separated these from other categories
defined interpersonal
Circumplex trait taxonomies typically categorize traits along __________ dimensions -
CORRECT ANSWER: 2
cognitive approach - CORRECT ANSWER: info processing
conscientiousness - CORRECT ANSWER: organized, neat, orderly vs. disorganized, disorderly,
careless
convergent validity - CORRECT ANSWER: type of predicative validity
test correlates well with other measures that it should correlate with
correlational research - CORRECT ANSWER: measures how closely related 2 variables are
how much they predict one another
correlation does not equal causation
criticism of Cattell's taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER: some personality researchers have failed
to replicate the 16 factors
Many argue that a smaller number of factors capture important ways in which individuals differ
EXAM COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+ BRAND
NEW!!
6 approaches to personality - CORRECT ANSWER: psychoanalytic
traits
biological
humanistic
behavioral/social learnings
cognitive
act frequency approach - CORRECT ANSWER: views traits as descriptions
act nomination
prototypicality judgment
recording of act performance
act nomination - CORRECT ANSWER: procedure designed to identify which acts belong in
which trait categories
researchers can identify hundreds of acts belonging to various trait categories
activity level - CORRECT ANSWER: the infants overall motor activity, including leg and arm
movements
adjacency - CORRECT ANSWER: how close the traits are together in the circumplex pie
traits next to each other are positively correlated
,advantage of factor analysis - CORRECT ANSWER: provides means for determining which
personality variables have some common property
useful in reducing the large array of diverse personality traits into a smaller and more useful set
of underlying factors
means for organizing the thousands of personality traits
advantages to circumplex - CORRECT ANSWER: it provides an explicit definition of
interpersonal behavior
this makes it possible to locate any transaction in which the resources of status and love are
exchanged within a specific region of the circumplex pie
it specifies the relationships between each trait and every other trait within the model
there are 3 types of relationships: adjacency, bipolarity, orthogonality
it alerts investigators to gaps in investigations of interpersonal behavior
aggregation - CORRECT ANSWER: averaging as a tool for assessing personality traits
agreeableness - CORRECT ANSWER: sympathetic, kind, warm vs. unsympathetic, harsh, cruel
behavioral/social learnings approach - CORRECT ANSWER: conditioning, learned expectation
biological approach - CORRECT ANSWER: inherited predispositions, physiological processes
biological underpinnings - CORRECT ANSWER: 2 criteria: heritability and identifiable
physiological substrate
all 3 super traits are highly heritable
bipolarity - CORRECT ANSWER: traits that are located on opposite sides of each other
these traits are negatively correlated
, Cattell's 16 personality factor system - CORRECT ANSWER: true factors of personality should
be found across different types of data such as S-data and T-data
among the largest in number of factors identified as basic traits
circumplex taxonomies - CORRECT ANSWER: started with the lexical hypothesis
trait terms specify different kinds of ways in which individuals differ
one kind of individual difference is interpersonal traits
mainly concerned with interpersonal traits so separated these from other categories
defined interpersonal
Circumplex trait taxonomies typically categorize traits along __________ dimensions -
CORRECT ANSWER: 2
cognitive approach - CORRECT ANSWER: info processing
conscientiousness - CORRECT ANSWER: organized, neat, orderly vs. disorganized, disorderly,
careless
convergent validity - CORRECT ANSWER: type of predicative validity
test correlates well with other measures that it should correlate with
correlational research - CORRECT ANSWER: measures how closely related 2 variables are
how much they predict one another
correlation does not equal causation
criticism of Cattell's taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER: some personality researchers have failed
to replicate the 16 factors
Many argue that a smaller number of factors capture important ways in which individuals differ
