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PSY 340 Personality Midterm
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Psychologists following the phenomenological approach __________.
✓ are concerned with our conscious experience of the world and the
consequences of having free will
According to the text, personality's greatest strength, understanding the
whole persons, is also its greatest weakness. Which term describes this
fundamental observation?
✓ Funder's First Law
__________ theories of personality apply the insights and methods derived
from the study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of
personality.
✓ Cognitive
What is a primary goal of the biological approach to personality?
✓ understanding the heritability of behavior and personality
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One critique of personality psychology is that it "pigeonholes" people. What
does "pigeonholing" someone mean?
✓ categorizing and labeling people
Personality psychologists who adhere to the __________ approach focus on
identifying, conceptualizing, and measuring the ways in which people differ
psychologically from one another.
✓ trait
Personality psychology shares with clinical psychology __________.
✓ a common obligation to try to understand the whole person
Which of the following is NOT part of the psychological triad?
✓ psychological health
Personality is an individual's characteristic patterns of __________.
✓ behavior, emotion, and thought
Jeff suspects that his roommate's sexist jokes may indicate that his roommate
has some hidden, unconscious hostility toward women or that he feels very
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insecure around women. Jeff's analysis suggests a ________ approach to
personality.
✓ psychoanalytic
In observing human behavior, it is impossible to __________.
✓ understand everything about a person all at once
Which subfield of psychology has the greatest overlap with personality
psychology?
✓ clinical
Is narcissism always a bad trait to have?
✓ No, narcissists are persuasive, but they also act unethically
The purpose of a basic approach (or paradigm) is to __________.
✓ limit inquiry to certain kinds of observations and patterns
Personality psychology and clinical psychology overlap most often when
approaching which topic?
✓ personality disorders
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Which of the following is NOT one of the basic approaches to personality?
✓ assessment
Personality psychology emphasizes how people are __________, whereas
subfields such as cognitive and social psychology emphasize how people
are __________.
✓ different from each other; similar to each other
Advocates of any particular basic approach to personality historically
__________.
✓ claimed that their approach explains everything worth explaining
Which of the following is an expression of Funder's First Law?
✓ characteristics that are strengths in one sense are weaknesses in other
ways
What are two topics covered under the phenomenological approach?
✓ humanistic and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
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PSY 340 Personality Midterm
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Psychologists following the phenomenological approach __________.
✓ are concerned with our conscious experience of the world and the
consequences of having free will
According to the text, personality's greatest strength, understanding the
whole persons, is also its greatest weakness. Which term describes this
fundamental observation?
✓ Funder's First Law
__________ theories of personality apply the insights and methods derived
from the study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of
personality.
✓ Cognitive
What is a primary goal of the biological approach to personality?
✓ understanding the heritability of behavior and personality
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One critique of personality psychology is that it "pigeonholes" people. What
does "pigeonholing" someone mean?
✓ categorizing and labeling people
Personality psychologists who adhere to the __________ approach focus on
identifying, conceptualizing, and measuring the ways in which people differ
psychologically from one another.
✓ trait
Personality psychology shares with clinical psychology __________.
✓ a common obligation to try to understand the whole person
Which of the following is NOT part of the psychological triad?
✓ psychological health
Personality is an individual's characteristic patterns of __________.
✓ behavior, emotion, and thought
Jeff suspects that his roommate's sexist jokes may indicate that his roommate
has some hidden, unconscious hostility toward women or that he feels very
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insecure around women. Jeff's analysis suggests a ________ approach to
personality.
✓ psychoanalytic
In observing human behavior, it is impossible to __________.
✓ understand everything about a person all at once
Which subfield of psychology has the greatest overlap with personality
psychology?
✓ clinical
Is narcissism always a bad trait to have?
✓ No, narcissists are persuasive, but they also act unethically
The purpose of a basic approach (or paradigm) is to __________.
✓ limit inquiry to certain kinds of observations and patterns
Personality psychology and clinical psychology overlap most often when
approaching which topic?
✓ personality disorders
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Which of the following is NOT one of the basic approaches to personality?
✓ assessment
Personality psychology emphasizes how people are __________, whereas
subfields such as cognitive and social psychology emphasize how people
are __________.
✓ different from each other; similar to each other
Advocates of any particular basic approach to personality historically
__________.
✓ claimed that their approach explains everything worth explaining
Which of the following is an expression of Funder's First Law?
✓ characteristics that are strengths in one sense are weaknesses in other
ways
What are two topics covered under the phenomenological approach?
✓ humanistic and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
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