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(Chapters 1-4): Personality of Psychology Exam
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A personality psychologist who is concerned primarily with people's unconscious mind and
internal conflict follows what approach? - Answer✔Psychoanalytic Approach
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with a person's conscious experiences follows the
__________ approach. - Answer✔Phenomenological
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with how a person's genes, physiology, and brain
anatomy are related to his or her personality follows the __________ approach. -
Answer✔Biological
A systematic, self-imposed limitation of observations, patterns, and ways of thinking about
these patterns is called __________. - Answer✔The Basic Approach
Behaviorism, social learning theory, and cognitive personality psychology comprise which of the
following approaches to psychology? - Answer✔Learning and Cognitive Approach
How do clinical psychology and personality psychology overlap? - Answer✔Clinical and
personality psychology share a common responsibility to understand every feature of an
individual, not just single aspects about them.
How people feel, think, and behave are parts of __________. - Answer✔The Psychological Triad
Humanistic psychology pursues how conscious awareness can produce uniquely human
attributes such as __________. - Answer✔existential anxiety, creativity, and free will
Is "stubbornness" a good personality trait to have? - Answer✔Yes and no; it can be a strength in
some situations and a weakness in others
One branch of the phenomenological approach focuses on how conscious awareness produces
uniquely human attributes and the other branch focuses on __________. - Answer✔the degree
to which the experience of reality may be different in different cultures
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One disadvantage of creating "One Big Theory" of personality psychology is that __________. -
Answer✔It would explain some parts of behavior well and other parts not as well
Personality psychology can be organized into __________ basic approaches. - Answer✔5
Personality psychology emphasizes individual differences. How does this focus serve as one of
the discipline's strengths? - Answer✔It leads personality psychologists to be extremely sensitive
to the fact that people really are different from each other
Personality psychology's biggest advantage over other areas of psychology is that - Answer✔the
psychology of whole persons is taken into account
The different approaches to studying personality __________ rather than __________ each
other. - Answer✔complement; compete with
The three parts of the psychological triad are __________. - Answer✔not always consistent at
all times
The trait approach to personality psychology best describes what situation? - Answer✔a
psychologist focusing on ways that people differ from one another in behavior and disposition,
and how these differences might be measured
When defining personality, we could say that personality is best described as -
Answer✔people's characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior together with the
psychological mechanisms, hidden or not, behind those patterns
When patterns of behavior are extreme, unusual, and problematic, personality psychology
overlaps with __________. - Answer✔Clinical Psychology
Which of the following is an example of a basic approach, or paradigm, of personality
psychology? - Answer✔the Psychoanalytic Approach
According to the text, what is the central principle behind the use of S data? - Answer✔People
are the best experts on their own opinions and behaviors
Because any piece of L data can have many different causes, it is extremely difficult to directly
connect life outcomes with specific personality traits. This key disadvantage to L data is referred
to as __________. - Answer✔Multidetermination
Both experimental and correlational methods assess the relationship between variables. The
two methods are different in that __________. - Answer✔the variable that is thought to be
causal is manipulated in the experimental method, whereas it is measured without being
manipulated in the correlational method
Correlational methods do all of the following except __________. - Answer✔show which
variable caused the other
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(Chapters 1-4): Personality of Psychology Exam
1 Questions With Correct Answers 100%
Verified.
A personality psychologist who is concerned primarily with people's unconscious mind and
internal conflict follows what approach? - Answer✔Psychoanalytic Approach
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with a person's conscious experiences follows the
__________ approach. - Answer✔Phenomenological
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with how a person's genes, physiology, and brain
anatomy are related to his or her personality follows the __________ approach. -
Answer✔Biological
A systematic, self-imposed limitation of observations, patterns, and ways of thinking about
these patterns is called __________. - Answer✔The Basic Approach
Behaviorism, social learning theory, and cognitive personality psychology comprise which of the
following approaches to psychology? - Answer✔Learning and Cognitive Approach
How do clinical psychology and personality psychology overlap? - Answer✔Clinical and
personality psychology share a common responsibility to understand every feature of an
individual, not just single aspects about them.
How people feel, think, and behave are parts of __________. - Answer✔The Psychological Triad
Humanistic psychology pursues how conscious awareness can produce uniquely human
attributes such as __________. - Answer✔existential anxiety, creativity, and free will
Is "stubbornness" a good personality trait to have? - Answer✔Yes and no; it can be a strength in
some situations and a weakness in others
One branch of the phenomenological approach focuses on how conscious awareness produces
uniquely human attributes and the other branch focuses on __________. - Answer✔the degree
to which the experience of reality may be different in different cultures
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, ©THESTAR 2024/2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 12:08PM. A+
One disadvantage of creating "One Big Theory" of personality psychology is that __________. -
Answer✔It would explain some parts of behavior well and other parts not as well
Personality psychology can be organized into __________ basic approaches. - Answer✔5
Personality psychology emphasizes individual differences. How does this focus serve as one of
the discipline's strengths? - Answer✔It leads personality psychologists to be extremely sensitive
to the fact that people really are different from each other
Personality psychology's biggest advantage over other areas of psychology is that - Answer✔the
psychology of whole persons is taken into account
The different approaches to studying personality __________ rather than __________ each
other. - Answer✔complement; compete with
The three parts of the psychological triad are __________. - Answer✔not always consistent at
all times
The trait approach to personality psychology best describes what situation? - Answer✔a
psychologist focusing on ways that people differ from one another in behavior and disposition,
and how these differences might be measured
When defining personality, we could say that personality is best described as -
Answer✔people's characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior together with the
psychological mechanisms, hidden or not, behind those patterns
When patterns of behavior are extreme, unusual, and problematic, personality psychology
overlaps with __________. - Answer✔Clinical Psychology
Which of the following is an example of a basic approach, or paradigm, of personality
psychology? - Answer✔the Psychoanalytic Approach
According to the text, what is the central principle behind the use of S data? - Answer✔People
are the best experts on their own opinions and behaviors
Because any piece of L data can have many different causes, it is extremely difficult to directly
connect life outcomes with specific personality traits. This key disadvantage to L data is referred
to as __________. - Answer✔Multidetermination
Both experimental and correlational methods assess the relationship between variables. The
two methods are different in that __________. - Answer✔the variable that is thought to be
causal is manipulated in the experimental method, whereas it is measured without being
manipulated in the correlational method
Correlational methods do all of the following except __________. - Answer✔show which
variable caused the other
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