PSY 352 ACTUAL FINAL EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔criticism of Cattell's taxonomy - ✔✔some personality researchers have failed to
replicate the 16 factors
Many argue that a smaller number of factors capture important ways in which
individuals differ
✔✔circumplex taxonomies - ✔✔started with the lexical hypothesis
trait terms specify different kinds of ways in which individuals differ
one kind of individual difference is interpersonal traits
mainly concerned with interpersonal traits so separated these from other categories
defined interpersonal
✔✔interpersonal traits - ✔✔pertains to what people do to and with each other
✔✔kinds of individual differences of circumplex taxonomies - ✔✔temperament
character
material
attitude
mental
physical
, ✔✔interpersonal - ✔✔interactions among people involving exchanges
✔✔what are the two resources of social exchange in circumplex theories? - ✔✔love and
status
✔✔what are the 2 major axes of Wiggin's circumplex theories - ✔✔love and status
✔✔advantages to circumplex - ✔✔it provides an explicit definition of interpersonal
behavior
this makes it possible to locate any transaction in which the resources of status and love
are exchanged within a specific region of the circumplex pie
it specifies the relationships between each trait and every other trait within the model
there are 3 types of relationships: adjacency, bipolarity, orthogonality
it alerts investigators to gaps in investigations of interpersonal behavior
✔✔adjacency - ✔✔how close the traits are together in the circumplex pie
traits next to each other are positively correlated
✔✔bipolarity - ✔✔traits that are located on opposite sides of each other
these traits are negatively correlated
✔✔orthogonality - ✔✔traits that are perpendicular to each other are unrelated
✔✔key limitation to Wiggin's circumplex - ✔✔Interpersonal map is limited to 2
dimensions
other traits may have important interpersonal consequences
✔✔the five-factor model - ✔✔originally base on the combination of lexical and statistical
approaches
has achieved a greater degree of consensus than any other trait taxonomy in the history
of personality trait psychology
5 factors: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extraversion
✔✔conscientiousness - ✔✔organized, neat, orderly vs. disorganized, disorderly,
careless
✔✔agreeableness - ✔✔sympathetic, kind, warm vs. unsympathetic, harsh, cruel
✔✔neuroticism - ✔✔moody, anxious, insecure vs. calm, relaxed, stable
✔✔openness - ✔✔creative, imaginative, intellectual vs. uncreative, unimaginative,
unintellectual
✔✔extraversion - ✔✔talkative, extraverted, assertive vs. shy, quiet, introverted
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔criticism of Cattell's taxonomy - ✔✔some personality researchers have failed to
replicate the 16 factors
Many argue that a smaller number of factors capture important ways in which
individuals differ
✔✔circumplex taxonomies - ✔✔started with the lexical hypothesis
trait terms specify different kinds of ways in which individuals differ
one kind of individual difference is interpersonal traits
mainly concerned with interpersonal traits so separated these from other categories
defined interpersonal
✔✔interpersonal traits - ✔✔pertains to what people do to and with each other
✔✔kinds of individual differences of circumplex taxonomies - ✔✔temperament
character
material
attitude
mental
physical
, ✔✔interpersonal - ✔✔interactions among people involving exchanges
✔✔what are the two resources of social exchange in circumplex theories? - ✔✔love and
status
✔✔what are the 2 major axes of Wiggin's circumplex theories - ✔✔love and status
✔✔advantages to circumplex - ✔✔it provides an explicit definition of interpersonal
behavior
this makes it possible to locate any transaction in which the resources of status and love
are exchanged within a specific region of the circumplex pie
it specifies the relationships between each trait and every other trait within the model
there are 3 types of relationships: adjacency, bipolarity, orthogonality
it alerts investigators to gaps in investigations of interpersonal behavior
✔✔adjacency - ✔✔how close the traits are together in the circumplex pie
traits next to each other are positively correlated
✔✔bipolarity - ✔✔traits that are located on opposite sides of each other
these traits are negatively correlated
✔✔orthogonality - ✔✔traits that are perpendicular to each other are unrelated
✔✔key limitation to Wiggin's circumplex - ✔✔Interpersonal map is limited to 2
dimensions
other traits may have important interpersonal consequences
✔✔the five-factor model - ✔✔originally base on the combination of lexical and statistical
approaches
has achieved a greater degree of consensus than any other trait taxonomy in the history
of personality trait psychology
5 factors: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extraversion
✔✔conscientiousness - ✔✔organized, neat, orderly vs. disorganized, disorderly,
careless
✔✔agreeableness - ✔✔sympathetic, kind, warm vs. unsympathetic, harsh, cruel
✔✔neuroticism - ✔✔moody, anxious, insecure vs. calm, relaxed, stable
✔✔openness - ✔✔creative, imaginative, intellectual vs. uncreative, unimaginative,
unintellectual
✔✔extraversion - ✔✔talkative, extraverted, assertive vs. shy, quiet, introverted
