PSY 255 Exam 1 questions with correct answers

goals of personality psychology Answer Explain the whole person in his or her daily environment basic approach (paradigm) Answer a systematic, self-imposed limitation in which you limit yourself to certain kinds of observations, certain kinds of patterns, and certain ways of thinking about these patterns trait approach Answer an approach to studying personality that focuses on how individuals differ in personality dispositions Biological approach to personality Answer examines the extent to which heredity determines our personality Psychoanalytic Approach Answer Focuses on unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts phenomenological approach Answer -conscious awareness and experience -humanistic psych -cross cultural psych focus on people's conscious experience of the world -Humanistic: how conscious awareness produces uniquely human attributes -Cross-cultural: how the experience of reality varies across cultures