Psychology 101 Exam 3 Study Guide | Latest study |
Questions & Answers | 2026 Updates
Personality - ANSWER- People's typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving
Trait - ANSWER- Relatively enduring predisposition that influences our behavior across
many situations
Factor Analysis - ANSWER- Statistical technique that analyzes the correlations among
responses on personality inventories and other measures
Big Five - ANSWER- Five traits that have surfaced repeatedly in factor analyses of
personality measures - OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness,
neuroticism)
Structured Personality Test - ANSWER- Paper-and-pencil test consisting of questions that
respondents answer in one of a few fixed ways
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) - ANSWER- Widely used structured
personality test designed to assess symptoms of mental disorders
Face Validity - ANSWER- Extent to which respondents can tell what the items are
measuring
Projective Test - ANSWER- Test consisting of ambiguous stimuli that examines must
interpret or make sense of
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - ANSWER- Projective test requiring examinees to tell a
story in response to ambiguous pictures
Reliability - ANSWER- Consistency of scores across occasions
Rorschach - ANSWER- Projective test - inkblots
3 factor theory - ANSWER- Extraversion, neuroticism, impulse control
Shared environment - ANSWER- Factors that two people have in common (i.e. household)
Non-shared environment - ANSWER- Factors two people don't have in common (i.e. peer
groups)
, Nature via Nurture - ANSWER- Tendency of individuals with certain genetic
predispositions to seek out and create environments that permit the expression of those
predispositions
Zygote - ANSWER- Fertilized egg
Blastocyst - ANSWER- Ball of identical cells early in pregnancy that haven't yet begun to
take on any specific function in a body part
Embryo - ANSWER- Second to 8th week of prenatal development, during which limbs,
facial features, and major organs of the body take form
Fetus - ANSWER- Period of prenatal development from 9th week until birth after all major
organs are established and physical maturation is the primary change
Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER- Stage in Piaget's theory characterized by a focus on the
here and how without the ability to represent experiences mentally
Object Permanence - ANSWER- The understanding that objects continue to exist even
when out of view
Preoperational Stage - ANSWER- Stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the ability to
construct mental representations of experience but not yet perform operations on them
Egocentrism - ANSWER- Inability to see the world from others' perspectives
Conservation - ANSWER- Piagetian task requiring children to understand that despite a
transformation in the physical presentation of an amount, the amount remains the same
Concrete Operational Stage - ANSWER- Stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the
ability to perform mental operations on physical events only
Formal Operations Stage - ANSWER- Stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the ability
to perform hypothetical reasoning beyond the here and now
Stranger Anxiety - ANSWER- A fear of strangers developing at 8 or 9 months of age
Contact Comfort - ANSWER- Positive emotions afforded by touch
Secure style - ANSWER- 60%
Uses mom as home base, but happily explores. Upset when mom leaves, happy when she
returns
Insecure-avoidant style - ANSWER- 15-20%
Questions & Answers | 2026 Updates
Personality - ANSWER- People's typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving
Trait - ANSWER- Relatively enduring predisposition that influences our behavior across
many situations
Factor Analysis - ANSWER- Statistical technique that analyzes the correlations among
responses on personality inventories and other measures
Big Five - ANSWER- Five traits that have surfaced repeatedly in factor analyses of
personality measures - OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness,
neuroticism)
Structured Personality Test - ANSWER- Paper-and-pencil test consisting of questions that
respondents answer in one of a few fixed ways
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) - ANSWER- Widely used structured
personality test designed to assess symptoms of mental disorders
Face Validity - ANSWER- Extent to which respondents can tell what the items are
measuring
Projective Test - ANSWER- Test consisting of ambiguous stimuli that examines must
interpret or make sense of
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - ANSWER- Projective test requiring examinees to tell a
story in response to ambiguous pictures
Reliability - ANSWER- Consistency of scores across occasions
Rorschach - ANSWER- Projective test - inkblots
3 factor theory - ANSWER- Extraversion, neuroticism, impulse control
Shared environment - ANSWER- Factors that two people have in common (i.e. household)
Non-shared environment - ANSWER- Factors two people don't have in common (i.e. peer
groups)
, Nature via Nurture - ANSWER- Tendency of individuals with certain genetic
predispositions to seek out and create environments that permit the expression of those
predispositions
Zygote - ANSWER- Fertilized egg
Blastocyst - ANSWER- Ball of identical cells early in pregnancy that haven't yet begun to
take on any specific function in a body part
Embryo - ANSWER- Second to 8th week of prenatal development, during which limbs,
facial features, and major organs of the body take form
Fetus - ANSWER- Period of prenatal development from 9th week until birth after all major
organs are established and physical maturation is the primary change
Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER- Stage in Piaget's theory characterized by a focus on the
here and how without the ability to represent experiences mentally
Object Permanence - ANSWER- The understanding that objects continue to exist even
when out of view
Preoperational Stage - ANSWER- Stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the ability to
construct mental representations of experience but not yet perform operations on them
Egocentrism - ANSWER- Inability to see the world from others' perspectives
Conservation - ANSWER- Piagetian task requiring children to understand that despite a
transformation in the physical presentation of an amount, the amount remains the same
Concrete Operational Stage - ANSWER- Stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the
ability to perform mental operations on physical events only
Formal Operations Stage - ANSWER- Stage in Piaget's theory characterized by the ability
to perform hypothetical reasoning beyond the here and now
Stranger Anxiety - ANSWER- A fear of strangers developing at 8 or 9 months of age
Contact Comfort - ANSWER- Positive emotions afforded by touch
Secure style - ANSWER- 60%
Uses mom as home base, but happily explores. Upset when mom leaves, happy when she
returns
Insecure-avoidant style - ANSWER- 15-20%
