PSY 4331 EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Dispositional Trait Approach
Answer:
- Dispositions influence behavior in most relevant
- Cross-situational consistency
- "Strength" of a situation
- Variations in behavior result from the strength of a given trait
- Traits are not descriptive - they are explanatory
- They are the causes of behavior
- Cause the same behavior in identical situations
- Cause similar behavior in similar situations
Question:
2. Dispositional Trait Approach
Answer:
- Emphasis on the present
- what traits do you have right now?
- Trait origins
- Constitutional
- Cause by physiological/genetic factors
- Environmental-mold
- Caused by environmental factors, society, culture
Question:
3. What are the Big Five
Answer:
- Openness
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Neruroticism
- The Big Five are Orthogonal
- They do not interact, so traits are independent of each other
- OCEAN
Question:
4. Phenomenon
Answer:
An observable fact or event, known through the sense rather than by thought or by being told about it
Question:
5. Phenomenology
, Answer:
- The study of the subjective experience of the world by individuals
- Concerned with cognition
- Focus on subjectivity
- experiences or perceptions that are personal to the individual
- each person interprets the world differently
Question:
6. Common Themes of Phenomenological Theorists
Answer:
1. Not concerned w/ personality structure
2. Concerned w/ cognition
- Mental processes involved in "taking in" and processing the world
- Organization of ideas about the world
- Perception is an active process
Question:
7. Existential Psychology
Answer:
- Branch of psychology that employs phenomenological analysis
- Existentialism
- There is no "ultimate force" in the universe
- we are ultimately responsible for our actions
- a person's whole existence can become present and real
- technical terms are meaningless/disconnected from experience
- ground of existence
- dynamics of existence
Question:
8. Humanistic Psychology
Answer:
- An off-shoot of existential psychology
- Focused on possibilities, growth, and personal fulfillment
- Existentialism -> post WWII era
- Humanism -> alienation and dissatisfaction with increasing mechanization/technological
innovation/dehumanization
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Dispositional Trait Approach
Answer:
- Dispositions influence behavior in most relevant
- Cross-situational consistency
- "Strength" of a situation
- Variations in behavior result from the strength of a given trait
- Traits are not descriptive - they are explanatory
- They are the causes of behavior
- Cause the same behavior in identical situations
- Cause similar behavior in similar situations
Question:
2. Dispositional Trait Approach
Answer:
- Emphasis on the present
- what traits do you have right now?
- Trait origins
- Constitutional
- Cause by physiological/genetic factors
- Environmental-mold
- Caused by environmental factors, society, culture
Question:
3. What are the Big Five
Answer:
- Openness
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Neruroticism
- The Big Five are Orthogonal
- They do not interact, so traits are independent of each other
- OCEAN
Question:
4. Phenomenon
Answer:
An observable fact or event, known through the sense rather than by thought or by being told about it
Question:
5. Phenomenology
, Answer:
- The study of the subjective experience of the world by individuals
- Concerned with cognition
- Focus on subjectivity
- experiences or perceptions that are personal to the individual
- each person interprets the world differently
Question:
6. Common Themes of Phenomenological Theorists
Answer:
1. Not concerned w/ personality structure
2. Concerned w/ cognition
- Mental processes involved in "taking in" and processing the world
- Organization of ideas about the world
- Perception is an active process
Question:
7. Existential Psychology
Answer:
- Branch of psychology that employs phenomenological analysis
- Existentialism
- There is no "ultimate force" in the universe
- we are ultimately responsible for our actions
- a person's whole existence can become present and real
- technical terms are meaningless/disconnected from experience
- ground of existence
- dynamics of existence
Question:
8. Humanistic Psychology
Answer:
- An off-shoot of existential psychology
- Focused on possibilities, growth, and personal fulfillment
- Existentialism -> post WWII era
- Humanism -> alienation and dissatisfaction with increasing mechanization/technological
innovation/dehumanization
