PPE3003 EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PPE3003 EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
1. Most people use only about 10% of their brain capacity. True or False?
Answer:
False

Question:
2. People tend to be romantically attracted to individuals who are opposite to them in personality and
attitudes. True or False?
Answer:
False

Question:
3. What is Personality?
Answer:
A person's characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors; the set of psychological traits

Question:
4. What are traits?
Answer:
Characteristics that describe ways in which people are similar or different from each other

Question:
5. What are the processes of personality?
Answer:
1. Inputs
2. Decision rules
3. Outputs

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6. What are psychological mechanisms?
Answer:
The processes of personality

Question:
7. What does it mean that personality is within the individual?
Answer:
Personality is something a person carries with themself over time and from one situation to the next

Question:
8. What does it mean that personality is organized?
Answer:
mechanisms and traits are linked to one another in a coherent fashion

,Question:
9. What parts of personality are involved in person-environment interactions?
Answer:
- Perception
- Selection
- Evocations
- Manipulations

Question:
10. What are the 3 levels of personality?
Answer:
- Human Nature
- Individual and group differences
- Uniqueness

Question:
11. What level of personality do modern theories focus on?
Answer:
Individual and group differences

Question:
12. What are the 6 domains of personality?
Answer:
- Disposition
- Biological
- Intrapsychic
- Cognitive-experiential
- Social and Cultural
- Adjustment

Question:
13. What does the dispositional domain focus on?
Answer:
How do people differ

Question:
14. What does the biological domain focus on?
Answer:
How do genetics, physiology, and evolution impact personality

Question:
15. What does the intrapsychic domain focus on?
Answer:
What are the mental mechanisms of personality

Question:
16. What does the cognitive-experiential domain focus on?

, Answer:
How do subjective thoughts and experiences affect personality

Question:
17. What does the social and cultural domain focus on?
Answer:
How does the social and cultural context affect personality

Question:
18. What does the adjustment domain focus on?
Answer:
How does personality affect the way we adjust to life events

Question:
19. What is the most common measuring method used in personality psychology?
Answer:
Self-reporting

Question:
20. What is a self-report?
Answer:
Person provides information about own traits, feelings, or behaviors

Question:
21. What are some examples of self-reporting?
Answer:
- Questionnaires
- Interviews

Question:
22. What is the better than average effect?
Answer:
People evaluate themselves more positively than they evaluate other people

Question:
23. Why does the better than average effect happen?
Answer:
- We want to feel good about ourselves
- We can easily think of times we are good
- We don't always know or remember times we have been bad

Question:
24. What are the pros to self report?
Answer:
- People know their private experiences
- Easy and convenient