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PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY 290 UMICH EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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Judge must detect info


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Detect (RAM)




Is it related to other measures of the same construct? (looks like a duck, walks like a
duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck - probably a duck)


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Convergent Validity




People's conscious experience of the world, their phenomenology (outside factors)

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Phenomenological Approach




Great strengths are usually great weaknesses and vice versa


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Funder's 1st Law




How people differ psychologically, and how these differences might be
conceptualized (fundamental dimensions)


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Trait Approach




Type of Q-sort, 100 phrases rated 1-9 with a forced distribution


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The California Q-Set




Teachers give subjects extra opportunities bc of expectancy


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, Output (4 Factor)




How conscious awareness can produce such uniquely human attributes as existential
as anxiety, creativity, and free will


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Humanistic Psychology




Taking on roles (ex: jock) can lead to more consistency


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Role Continuity Principle




Other possible factors contributing to unreliable results


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Measurement Error (error variance)




Tendency to over attribute other's behavior to dispositional causes, and our own to
situational causes


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, Fundamental Attribution Error




Accuracy about guessing how accurate you will be (Being able to guess who's
personalities you judged most accurately)


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Meta-Accuracy




Surgeons who believed lobotomizing frontal lobe can 'cure' excessive emotionality
were wrong!


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Phineas Gage




Activeness of brain, what it does


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Brain Physiology




Released in response to physical or psychological stress, body's prep for action (fight
or flight), low levels = PTSD, risk-taking, psychopathy


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