Psych 290 Exam 1 umich with Guaranteed Correct Answers

definitions of personality presented in lecture and textbook - correct answer textbook: patterns of though. emotion, and behavior with psych mechanisms behind those patterns lecture: consistency in peoples thoughts feelings and behavior over time and across situations psychological triad - correct answer feel, think, behave (overlapping conflict) basic approach - correct answer limits what one looks at, paradigm, personality psych is organized around several different basic approaches trait approach (1) - correct answer personality traits to measure individual differences biological approach (2) - correct answer understand mind in terms of the body psychoanalytic approach (3) - correct answer unconscious mind and internal mental conflict phemenological approach (4) - correct answer focused on conscious experience and awareness humanistic psych - correct answer how conscious awareness can proceed such uniquely human attributes like existential anxiety, creativity, and free will cross-cultural - correct answer how psych and reality may be different in different cultures learning (5) - correct answer how behavior is changed as a result of rewards, punishments, and other experiences in life behaviorists - correct answer overt behavior and how it is affected by rewards/ punishments social learning - correct answer which behaviors are learned and how thee are performed example of trait approach - correct answer the big five example of psychoanalytic approach - correct answer dream analysis example of phenmenological approach - correct answer two personalities w different languages example of biological - correct answer looking at genes vs personality example of social learning - correct answer systematic desensitization S-Data - correct answer self report face validity - correct answer intends to measure what it seems to measure (under S-data so keep that in mind) pros/cons of S-Data - correct answer pro: best expert con: fish in water illusion I-Data - correct answer informant's report judgments - correct answer subjective, human, biased expectancy effect - correct answer behavioral confirmation. If others expect you to be something, you become that in their minds I-Data pro/con - correct answer pro: pretty reliable, easy to administer con: biased L-Data - correct answer life data L-Data pro/con - correct answer pro: objective con: doesnt give you the "why: or "how" B-data - correct answer behavioral data B-data pros and cons - correct answer pro: control over context con: situational psychological measures - correct answer blood pressure, heart rate, CAT scans, etc measurement error - correct answer variation of a number around its true mean due to uncontrolled, essentially random influences; also called error variance how does measurement error influence reliability - correct answer you cant trust something it the info is skewed, and it affects repeatability