CORRECT ANSWERS) MUST PASS
Define personality. - Someone's usual patterns of beliefs, feelings, and thoughts
Use Figure 1.1 to explain how personality is a "hub" topic with psychology. - -Clinical psychology
---Personality disorders
---Psychological assessment
-Industrial-organizational psychology
---Leadership
---Assessment
-Neuroscience
---Personality neuroscience
Developmental psychology
---Personality development
--Child temperament
-Social psychology
---Self-concept
---Self-esteem
Describe the two sides of the person-satiation debate, including identifying which side is being
measured for an example. - -Psychologists have debated whether the person (relatively set
characteristics such as personality) or the situation (the specific environment you are in) better
determine behavior
-Different form nature vs. further debate, which instead debates the origin of differences within the
person
What is the current view piton of the person-situation debate? - -Both predict behavior equally
-Personality considers averages
List four ways in which the person and situation work together to influence behavior, and be ready to
identify each one from an example. - 1. Personality can be impacted by experiences
2. People can respond differently to the same situation
, 3. People choose their situations
4. People change the situation they enter
What is personality assessment? - The way psychologist measure identify personality
What is the goal of a self-report? - Capture a characteristic as a number
What are advantages of self-report questionnaires? - -Easy
-Convenient
-Simple to administer
-Can get lots of data in a short period of time
What are the disadvantages of self-quetionnaires? - -Accuracy of views
-Honesty
---Social desirability
--Acquiescence's response set
What is an acquiescence respond set? How do we get around it? - -Acquiescence bias response -
respondents to a survey have a tendency to agree with all the questions or to indicate a positive
connotaion
-Use easy to understand questions
What is correlation? What are positive, negative, and null correlation? - -Correlation - statical
relationship between two variables
---Positive correlation - variable move in the same direction
---Negative correlation - variable moves in opposite directions
---Null correlation - variables have no relationship
According to the video in class, what three elements are needed in a "good" personality
questionnaire? - 1. Reliability
2. Validity
3.