PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Psychological Triad.
Answer: 1) Affect
2) Behavior
3) Cognition
◉ The Five basic personality approaches.
Answer: 1) Traits
2) Biological
3) Psychoanalytic
4) Phenomenological
5) Learning and Cognitive Processes
◉ Trait Approach.
Answer: The measure of individual differences
◉ Biological Approach.
Answer: Evolution, genetics, anatomy
,◉ Psychoanalytic Approach.
Answer: Unconscious mind, internal mental conflict
◉ Phenomenological Approach.
Answer: Cross-Culture psychology, conscious awareness
◉ Learning and Cognitive Processes.
Answer: Reinforcement, Social Learning Theory, Behaviorism
◉ Funder's First Law.
Answer: Our great strengths are usually also our greatest
weaknesses
◉ Behavioral Genetics.
Answer: The study of how parents pass on personality traits to their
offspring
◉ Evolutionary Psychology.
Answer: Seeks the origins of human nature in the evolutionary
history of the species
,◉ "One Big Theory".
Answer: To assemble an integrated view of how individuals go about
their every-day life. Used to answer the question "is there such a
thing as personality?"
◉ Four main types of data for personality.
Answer: 1) S-Data
2) I-Data
3) L-Data
4) B-Data
◉ S-Data.
Answer: Self report-you answering questions about you
◉ I-Data.
Answer: Someone who knows the person being studied answers
questions about them
◉ L-Data.
Answer: Life outcomes (real-life facts)
◉ B-Data.
, Answer: Behavioral data, direct observation
◉ Disadvantage of B-Data.
Answer: Uncertain Interpretation--appearances can be misleading
◉ Advantage of B-Data.
Answer: Direct gathering of data--the psychologist can hone in on
their precision
◉ Reliability.
Answer: Consistently yields the same result
◉ Validity.
Answer: Measures what it intends to measure
◉ Statistic on which reliability and validity are based.
Answer: Correlation Statistic (relationship between two individuals)
-The higher the correlation, the higher the validity
◉ Two types of reliability.
Answer: 1) Test-Retest Reliability
2) Inter-rater Reliability
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Psychological Triad.
Answer: 1) Affect
2) Behavior
3) Cognition
◉ The Five basic personality approaches.
Answer: 1) Traits
2) Biological
3) Psychoanalytic
4) Phenomenological
5) Learning and Cognitive Processes
◉ Trait Approach.
Answer: The measure of individual differences
◉ Biological Approach.
Answer: Evolution, genetics, anatomy
,◉ Psychoanalytic Approach.
Answer: Unconscious mind, internal mental conflict
◉ Phenomenological Approach.
Answer: Cross-Culture psychology, conscious awareness
◉ Learning and Cognitive Processes.
Answer: Reinforcement, Social Learning Theory, Behaviorism
◉ Funder's First Law.
Answer: Our great strengths are usually also our greatest
weaknesses
◉ Behavioral Genetics.
Answer: The study of how parents pass on personality traits to their
offspring
◉ Evolutionary Psychology.
Answer: Seeks the origins of human nature in the evolutionary
history of the species
,◉ "One Big Theory".
Answer: To assemble an integrated view of how individuals go about
their every-day life. Used to answer the question "is there such a
thing as personality?"
◉ Four main types of data for personality.
Answer: 1) S-Data
2) I-Data
3) L-Data
4) B-Data
◉ S-Data.
Answer: Self report-you answering questions about you
◉ I-Data.
Answer: Someone who knows the person being studied answers
questions about them
◉ L-Data.
Answer: Life outcomes (real-life facts)
◉ B-Data.
, Answer: Behavioral data, direct observation
◉ Disadvantage of B-Data.
Answer: Uncertain Interpretation--appearances can be misleading
◉ Advantage of B-Data.
Answer: Direct gathering of data--the psychologist can hone in on
their precision
◉ Reliability.
Answer: Consistently yields the same result
◉ Validity.
Answer: Measures what it intends to measure
◉ Statistic on which reliability and validity are based.
Answer: Correlation Statistic (relationship between two individuals)
-The higher the correlation, the higher the validity
◉ Two types of reliability.
Answer: 1) Test-Retest Reliability
2) Inter-rater Reliability
