Question 1.
What are the three Ds of personality?
ANSWER
1. Description
2. Dynamics
3. Development
Question 2.
What are the three ways of describing personality?
ANSWER
1. Types
2. Traits
3. Factors
Question 3.
What is the nomothetic approach?
ANSWER
Research based on groups of people.
Question 4.
What is the idiographic approach?
ANSWER
Research based on studying one person at a time (i.e. case study)
Question 5.
What is the Big Five?
ANSWER
A model of personality that includes five major dimensions:
1. Neuroticism
2. Extraversion
3. Openness
4. Agreeableness
5. Concientiousness
Question 6.
What are personality dynamics?
ANSWER
The way people behave and react.
, Question 7.
What are personality dynamics shaped by?
ANSWER
It is shaped by factors such as motivation, adaptation or adjustment, cognitive processes, and culture.
Question 8.
What is motivation?
ANSWER
Drives our behavior, action, and goals; gets us going and keeps us moving.
Question 9.
What is adaptation/adjustment?
ANSWER
The ability to be flexible; finding ways to cope with changes and challenges.
Question 10.
What are cognitive processes?
ANSWER
Tools for understanding the world; they are things like attention span, memory, and decision.
Question 11.
What is temperament?
ANSWER
Consistent syles of behavior and emotional reactions that are present from infancy onward, presumably because of biological influences.
Question 12.
Experience, especially in childhood, influences the way each person develops what?
ANSWER
Their unique personality.
Question 13.
Descriptive issues
ANSWER
Individual differences
Question 14.
Dynamic issues
ANSWER
-Adaptation and adjustment -Cognitive processes -Culture