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Personality Psychology Rutgers Exam 1
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What is personality psychology? - Answer✔Personality psychology is a branch of psychology
that studies personality and its variation among individuals
What is the basic evidence for the notion that personality is within the individual? -
Answer✔because traits are:
-Relatively enduring
-Consistent across time
-Consistent across situations
What is the person-situation debate? - Answer✔the controversy concerning whether the
person or the situation is more influential in determining a person's behavior.
What is S-data? - Answer✔Self-report data
Advantages and Disadvantages of S-data - Answer✔Advantages:
-easy
-individual has best knowledge about personality
Disadvantages
-response set
-acquiescence response set
-social desirability bias
-extreme responding
-fish-out-of-water effect
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Structured and and unstructured measures - Answer✔structured-closed ended
unstructured-open-ended
Likert rating scale - Answer✔typically 5 to 7 response alternatives with the end-points labeled
to define the extremes
experience sampling - Answer✔Participants provide data one or more times a day for an
extended period of time
response set - Answer✔pattern of individual responses to questions that is not related to the
content of the question
acquiescence response set - Answer✔tendency to agree with items regardless of content
social desirability bias - Answer✔participants tend to say what they believe is expected of them
extreme responding - Answer✔tendency to give endpoint responses
the "fish-and-water" effect - Answer✔individuals may not be able to provide important
personality info because they don't really notice
What is O-data? - Answer✔Observers report on personality data
Advantages and Disadvantages of O-data - Answer✔Advantages
-Large amount of information
-Observation of behaviors in real world
-Common sense
Disadvantages
-can not measure "internal" emotions (like anxiety)
What is T-data - Answer✔Participants placed into standardized testing situation to elicit
behavior; responses to situation measured
Behavioral data - behaviors
Physiological data - physiological response
Projective tests (e.g., Rorschach)
What is L-data - Answer✔Events, activities, and outcomes in participant's life
What is "snoopology" - Answer✔(e.g., Gosling et al., 2002) - what private spaces say about
personality
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Personality Psychology Rutgers Exam 1
Questions With Correct Answers 100%
Verified.
What is personality psychology? - Answer✔Personality psychology is a branch of psychology
that studies personality and its variation among individuals
What is the basic evidence for the notion that personality is within the individual? -
Answer✔because traits are:
-Relatively enduring
-Consistent across time
-Consistent across situations
What is the person-situation debate? - Answer✔the controversy concerning whether the
person or the situation is more influential in determining a person's behavior.
What is S-data? - Answer✔Self-report data
Advantages and Disadvantages of S-data - Answer✔Advantages:
-easy
-individual has best knowledge about personality
Disadvantages
-response set
-acquiescence response set
-social desirability bias
-extreme responding
-fish-out-of-water effect
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, ©THESTAR 2024/2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 12:08PM. A+
Structured and and unstructured measures - Answer✔structured-closed ended
unstructured-open-ended
Likert rating scale - Answer✔typically 5 to 7 response alternatives with the end-points labeled
to define the extremes
experience sampling - Answer✔Participants provide data one or more times a day for an
extended period of time
response set - Answer✔pattern of individual responses to questions that is not related to the
content of the question
acquiescence response set - Answer✔tendency to agree with items regardless of content
social desirability bias - Answer✔participants tend to say what they believe is expected of them
extreme responding - Answer✔tendency to give endpoint responses
the "fish-and-water" effect - Answer✔individuals may not be able to provide important
personality info because they don't really notice
What is O-data? - Answer✔Observers report on personality data
Advantages and Disadvantages of O-data - Answer✔Advantages
-Large amount of information
-Observation of behaviors in real world
-Common sense
Disadvantages
-can not measure "internal" emotions (like anxiety)
What is T-data - Answer✔Participants placed into standardized testing situation to elicit
behavior; responses to situation measured
Behavioral data - behaviors
Physiological data - physiological response
Projective tests (e.g., Rorschach)
What is L-data - Answer✔Events, activities, and outcomes in participant's life
What is "snoopology" - Answer✔(e.g., Gosling et al., 2002) - what private spaces say about
personality
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