PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAM 2025 | ALL QUESTIONS
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Personality - (CORRECT ANSWER)Refers to a person's characteristic patterns
Psychological Triad - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) Affect
2) Behavior
3) Cognition
The Five basic personality approaches - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) Traits
2) Biological
3) Psychoanalytic
4) Phenomenological
5) Learning and Cognitive Processes
Trait Approach - (CORRECT ANSWER)The measure of individual differences
Biological Approach - (CORRECT ANSWER)Evolution, genetics, anatomy
Psychoanalytic Approach - (CORRECT ANSWER)Unconscious mind, internal mental conflict
Phenomenological Approach - (CORRECT ANSWER)Cross-Culture psychology, conscious awareness
Learning and Cognitive Processes - (CORRECT ANSWER)Reinforcement, Social Learning Theory,
Behaviorism
Funder's First Law - (CORRECT ANSWER)Our great strengths are usually also our greatest weaknesses
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,Behavioral Genetics - (CORRECT ANSWER)The study of how parents pass on personality traits to their
offspring
Evolutionary Psychology - (CORRECT ANSWER)Seeks the origins of human nature in the evolutionary
history of the species
"One Big Theory" - (CORRECT ANSWER)To assemble an integrated view of how individuals go about their
every-day life. Used to answer the question "is there such a thing as personality?"
Four main types of data for personality - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) S-Data
2) I-Data
3) L-Data
4) B-Data
S-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Self report-you answering questions about you
I-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Someone who knows the person being studied answers questions about
them
L-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Life outcomes (real-life facts)
B-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Behavioral data, direct observation
Disadvantage of B-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Uncertain Interpretation--appearances can be misleading
Advantage of B-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Direct gathering of data--the psychologist can hone in on
their precision
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,Reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Consistently yields the same result
Validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)Measures what it intends to measure
Statistic on which reliability and validity are based - (CORRECT ANSWER)Correlation Statistic
(relationship between two individuals)
-The higher the correlation, the higher the validity
Two types of reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) Test-Retest Reliability
2) Inter-rater Reliability
Test-Retest Reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Used to assess the consistency of a measure from one time
to another
Inter-rater Reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Assesses the degree to which different raters give consistent
estimates of the same phenomenon
One factor that undermines reliability and one factor that improves reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Low
precision undermines reliability and standardized research protocol improves it
Types of Validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) Construct
2) Convergent
Construct validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)The extent to which there is evidence that a test measures a
particular hypothetical construct.
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, Convergent Validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)the measure should correlate more strongly with other
measures of the same constructs
Inter-rater Reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Two raters who are both observing the same thing (used for
B-Data because it is subjective)
Temporal Stability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Across time
A construct - (CORRECT ANSWER)An abstract quality, or something we cannot see or directly measure
Factor Analytic Method - (CORRECT ANSWER)-Analyzes correlations among questions in a test
-Identifies groups
How factor analysis is related to validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)Factor Analysis identifies groups of things
that seem to have something in common to ESTABLISH validity
Funder's Second Law - (CORRECT ANSWER)There are no perfect indicators of personality, only clues and
clues are always ambiguous
Funder's Third Law - (CORRECT ANSWER)Something beats nothing, two times out of three
Correlational research - (CORRECT ANSWER)Two variables-is there a relationship between the two?
Independent and Dependent Variable - (CORRECT ANSWER)The basic components of experimental
research
Independent Variable - (CORRECT ANSWER)Manipulated, the predictor
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AND CORRECT ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+ | LATEST EXAM |
VERIFIED ANSWERS | JUST RELEASED
Personality - (CORRECT ANSWER)Refers to a person's characteristic patterns
Psychological Triad - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) Affect
2) Behavior
3) Cognition
The Five basic personality approaches - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) Traits
2) Biological
3) Psychoanalytic
4) Phenomenological
5) Learning and Cognitive Processes
Trait Approach - (CORRECT ANSWER)The measure of individual differences
Biological Approach - (CORRECT ANSWER)Evolution, genetics, anatomy
Psychoanalytic Approach - (CORRECT ANSWER)Unconscious mind, internal mental conflict
Phenomenological Approach - (CORRECT ANSWER)Cross-Culture psychology, conscious awareness
Learning and Cognitive Processes - (CORRECT ANSWER)Reinforcement, Social Learning Theory,
Behaviorism
Funder's First Law - (CORRECT ANSWER)Our great strengths are usually also our greatest weaknesses
1
,Behavioral Genetics - (CORRECT ANSWER)The study of how parents pass on personality traits to their
offspring
Evolutionary Psychology - (CORRECT ANSWER)Seeks the origins of human nature in the evolutionary
history of the species
"One Big Theory" - (CORRECT ANSWER)To assemble an integrated view of how individuals go about their
every-day life. Used to answer the question "is there such a thing as personality?"
Four main types of data for personality - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) S-Data
2) I-Data
3) L-Data
4) B-Data
S-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Self report-you answering questions about you
I-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Someone who knows the person being studied answers questions about
them
L-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Life outcomes (real-life facts)
B-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Behavioral data, direct observation
Disadvantage of B-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Uncertain Interpretation--appearances can be misleading
Advantage of B-Data - (CORRECT ANSWER)Direct gathering of data--the psychologist can hone in on
their precision
2
,Reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Consistently yields the same result
Validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)Measures what it intends to measure
Statistic on which reliability and validity are based - (CORRECT ANSWER)Correlation Statistic
(relationship between two individuals)
-The higher the correlation, the higher the validity
Two types of reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) Test-Retest Reliability
2) Inter-rater Reliability
Test-Retest Reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Used to assess the consistency of a measure from one time
to another
Inter-rater Reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Assesses the degree to which different raters give consistent
estimates of the same phenomenon
One factor that undermines reliability and one factor that improves reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Low
precision undermines reliability and standardized research protocol improves it
Types of Validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)1) Construct
2) Convergent
Construct validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)The extent to which there is evidence that a test measures a
particular hypothetical construct.
3
, Convergent Validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)the measure should correlate more strongly with other
measures of the same constructs
Inter-rater Reliability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Two raters who are both observing the same thing (used for
B-Data because it is subjective)
Temporal Stability - (CORRECT ANSWER)Across time
A construct - (CORRECT ANSWER)An abstract quality, or something we cannot see or directly measure
Factor Analytic Method - (CORRECT ANSWER)-Analyzes correlations among questions in a test
-Identifies groups
How factor analysis is related to validity - (CORRECT ANSWER)Factor Analysis identifies groups of things
that seem to have something in common to ESTABLISH validity
Funder's Second Law - (CORRECT ANSWER)There are no perfect indicators of personality, only clues and
clues are always ambiguous
Funder's Third Law - (CORRECT ANSWER)Something beats nothing, two times out of three
Correlational research - (CORRECT ANSWER)Two variables-is there a relationship between the two?
Independent and Dependent Variable - (CORRECT ANSWER)The basic components of experimental
research
Independent Variable - (CORRECT ANSWER)Manipulated, the predictor
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