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31 Multiple choice questions
Definition 1 of 31
Which may make people more likely to think about specific options.
Decision rules
Outputs
Manipulations
Inputs
Definition 2 of 31
poses challenges. There can be all manner of threats to an individual, even those that threaten
survival.
Social environment
Physical environment
Individual differences
Adaptive functioning
Definition 3 of 31
a central feature of personality. It refers to accomplishing goals, and coping, adjusting, and
dealing with the challenges people face as they go through life. Keep in mind that human
behavior is goal directed, functional, and purposeful. The mind is intended to help the
individual adapt to the environment.
Adaptive functioning
Individual uniqueness
Adaptation and personality
What are Psychological Mechanisms?
,Definition 4 of 31
describe the ways in which people are different from each other and the average tendencies
of a person. Define ways in which people are similar to some others.•
States versus traits: Traits
What are Psychological Traits?
Person-environment interactions
What are Psychological Mechanisms?
Definition 5 of 31
Personality is something a person carries with himself or herself over time and from one
situation to the next. There is continuity from day to day, week to week, year to year. There is
stability in personality. The definition of personality stresses that the important sources of
personality reside within the individual. Your personality belongs to you.
Idiographic approach
Personality within the individual
Personality is organized and relatively enduring
Influential forces of personality
Definition 6 of 31
(within the mind) poses challenges. Each individual has memories, dreams, desires, fantasies,
and a collection of private experiences. The meaning and power we provide to these
constituents can influence the choices we make and our personal interactions.
Social environment
Intrapsychic realm
Individual uniqueness
Human nature
, Definition 7 of 31
represents non-beneficial approaches to the environment.
Nomothetic approach
Adaptive functioning
Perceptions
Maladaptive functioning
Definition 8 of 31
Which may guide people's behavior toward certain categories of action.
Decision rules
Outputs
Inputs
Manipulations
Definition 9 of 31
Personality Traits and Mechanisms effect people's lives.• Personality influences how people act,
view themselves, think about the world, interact with others, feel, select their environments,
react to their circumstances, and what goals and desires they pursue in life.• People are not
entirely passive in their response to external forces.Personality plays a key role in this response.
Individual and group differences
Influential forces of personality
Group differences
The three levels of personal analysis
31 Multiple choice questions
Definition 1 of 31
Which may make people more likely to think about specific options.
Decision rules
Outputs
Manipulations
Inputs
Definition 2 of 31
poses challenges. There can be all manner of threats to an individual, even those that threaten
survival.
Social environment
Physical environment
Individual differences
Adaptive functioning
Definition 3 of 31
a central feature of personality. It refers to accomplishing goals, and coping, adjusting, and
dealing with the challenges people face as they go through life. Keep in mind that human
behavior is goal directed, functional, and purposeful. The mind is intended to help the
individual adapt to the environment.
Adaptive functioning
Individual uniqueness
Adaptation and personality
What are Psychological Mechanisms?
,Definition 4 of 31
describe the ways in which people are different from each other and the average tendencies
of a person. Define ways in which people are similar to some others.•
States versus traits: Traits
What are Psychological Traits?
Person-environment interactions
What are Psychological Mechanisms?
Definition 5 of 31
Personality is something a person carries with himself or herself over time and from one
situation to the next. There is continuity from day to day, week to week, year to year. There is
stability in personality. The definition of personality stresses that the important sources of
personality reside within the individual. Your personality belongs to you.
Idiographic approach
Personality within the individual
Personality is organized and relatively enduring
Influential forces of personality
Definition 6 of 31
(within the mind) poses challenges. Each individual has memories, dreams, desires, fantasies,
and a collection of private experiences. The meaning and power we provide to these
constituents can influence the choices we make and our personal interactions.
Social environment
Intrapsychic realm
Individual uniqueness
Human nature
, Definition 7 of 31
represents non-beneficial approaches to the environment.
Nomothetic approach
Adaptive functioning
Perceptions
Maladaptive functioning
Definition 8 of 31
Which may guide people's behavior toward certain categories of action.
Decision rules
Outputs
Inputs
Manipulations
Definition 9 of 31
Personality Traits and Mechanisms effect people's lives.• Personality influences how people act,
view themselves, think about the world, interact with others, feel, select their environments,
react to their circumstances, and what goals and desires they pursue in life.• People are not
entirely passive in their response to external forces.Personality plays a key role in this response.
Individual and group differences
Influential forces of personality
Group differences
The three levels of personal analysis
