PSY 321 exam 1 questions with correct answers
Personality Correct Answer-Refers to an individual's characteristic
pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior
What is the goal of a personality psychologist? Correct Answer-To
explain whole persons, to assemble an integrated view of whole
functioning individuals in daily environment
Basic Approach (paradigm) Correct Answer-systematic self imposed
limitation of studying personality
Trait approach Correct Answer-Focus on ways that people differ
psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized
Biological approach Correct Answer-Biological mechanisms such as
physiology, anatomy, genetics, evolution and their relevance for
personality
Psychoanalytical approach Correct Answer-concerned with the
unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal mental
conflict
Phenomenological approach Correct Answer-Focus on people's
conscious experience of the world and their phenomenology
,Learning and cognitive process approach Correct Answer-study of
perception, memory and thought
Learning Correct Answer-how people change their behavior as a result
of reward/punishment
Social learning theory Correct Answer-inferences about the ways that
mental processes determine which behaviors are learned and how they
are preformed
Humanistic psychology Correct Answer-How conscious awareness can
produce uniquely human attributes
Emphasizes the degree to which psychology and experiences of reality
may be different in different cultures
Sigmund Freud Correct Answer-Believed his version of the
psychoanalytical was the one true path
Announced that behaviorism explained everything relevant to
psychology
One big theory (OBT) Correct Answer-Would explain everything that
the trait, biological, psychoanalytical, humanistic, and learning/cognitive
approach now account for seperately
, Does not exist
Advantages and Disadvantages Correct Answer-Biggest advantage: It
has a broad mandate to account for the psychology of the whole persons
and real-life concerns, makes the study of personality more inclusive,
interesting
However, this is also PP's biggest disadvantage: in the wrong hands it
can lead to over inclusive or unfocused research, can seem to fall far
short of what it ought to accomplish
The field is extraordinarily sensitive- more than any other area of
psychology
Funder's first law Correct Answer-Advantages and disadvantages have a
way of being so tightly interconnected as to be inseparable
Potential disadvantages working as an advantage
Technical training Correct Answer-teaches one to use what is already
known
Scientific training Correct Answer-teaches one to explore the unknown
Research Correct Answer-exploration of the unknown
Personality Correct Answer-Refers to an individual's characteristic
pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior
What is the goal of a personality psychologist? Correct Answer-To
explain whole persons, to assemble an integrated view of whole
functioning individuals in daily environment
Basic Approach (paradigm) Correct Answer-systematic self imposed
limitation of studying personality
Trait approach Correct Answer-Focus on ways that people differ
psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized
Biological approach Correct Answer-Biological mechanisms such as
physiology, anatomy, genetics, evolution and their relevance for
personality
Psychoanalytical approach Correct Answer-concerned with the
unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal mental
conflict
Phenomenological approach Correct Answer-Focus on people's
conscious experience of the world and their phenomenology
,Learning and cognitive process approach Correct Answer-study of
perception, memory and thought
Learning Correct Answer-how people change their behavior as a result
of reward/punishment
Social learning theory Correct Answer-inferences about the ways that
mental processes determine which behaviors are learned and how they
are preformed
Humanistic psychology Correct Answer-How conscious awareness can
produce uniquely human attributes
Emphasizes the degree to which psychology and experiences of reality
may be different in different cultures
Sigmund Freud Correct Answer-Believed his version of the
psychoanalytical was the one true path
Announced that behaviorism explained everything relevant to
psychology
One big theory (OBT) Correct Answer-Would explain everything that
the trait, biological, psychoanalytical, humanistic, and learning/cognitive
approach now account for seperately
, Does not exist
Advantages and Disadvantages Correct Answer-Biggest advantage: It
has a broad mandate to account for the psychology of the whole persons
and real-life concerns, makes the study of personality more inclusive,
interesting
However, this is also PP's biggest disadvantage: in the wrong hands it
can lead to over inclusive or unfocused research, can seem to fall far
short of what it ought to accomplish
The field is extraordinarily sensitive- more than any other area of
psychology
Funder's first law Correct Answer-Advantages and disadvantages have a
way of being so tightly interconnected as to be inseparable
Potential disadvantages working as an advantage
Technical training Correct Answer-teaches one to use what is already
known
Scientific training Correct Answer-teaches one to explore the unknown
Research Correct Answer-exploration of the unknown
