Personality Psych Exam 1 ch 1-4 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Personality psychology - CORRECT ANSWER - the scientific study of the psychological
forces that make people uniquely themselves, studies how people think, feel, and behanve
Perspectives for studying personality (Eight) - CORRECT ANSWER - unconscious, ego,
cognitive, biological, conditioning, traits, spiritual, person-situation ineraction
Barnum effect - CORRECT ANSWER - The tendency to consider a personal description
accurate if it is stated in very general terms.
Ego forces - CORRECT ANSWER - One of the things that sets humans apart from other
animals is the ability to self-reflec, provides a sense of identity or self
Temperament - CORRECT ANSWER - An individual's behavioral style and characteristic
way of responding.
subjective assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - measurement that relies on interpretation.
strengths and weaknesses of subjective assement - CORRECT ANSWER - -different
observers may make different judgement
-complex phenomena may be examined and valuable insight gained
Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the
same individual over repeated testings
validity - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to
measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
, acquiescence response set - CORRECT ANSWER - "yes", "agree", "true of me"
social desirability response set - CORRECT ANSWER - the "good" or "correct" answer,
the answer that reflects well on the test-taker
ethnic and gender bias - CORRECT ANSWER - a characteristic that is a strength in one
group may be perceived as a weakness or deficiency in another
expressive behavior measures - CORRECT ANSWER - the analysis of how people stand,
move, speak etc
demographics and lifestyle - CORRECT ANSWER - uses information about a person's
age, place of birth, gender, family size, etc., cant help researchers undesrtand people based on
their everyday lives
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Focus on the influences of early
childhood, Emphasis on unconscious motives/conflicts, Primary focus on sexual and aggressive
urges
psychic determinism - CORRECT ANSWER - the assumption leads directly to the
conclusion that many important mental processes are unconcious
internal structure - CORRECT ANSWER - the mind has an internal structure made of
parts that can function independently and, in some cases, conflict with each other
manifest content - CORRECT ANSWER - the content of a dream that a person remembers
latent content - CORRECT ANSWER - the underlying hidden meaning of a dream
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Personality psychology - CORRECT ANSWER - the scientific study of the psychological
forces that make people uniquely themselves, studies how people think, feel, and behanve
Perspectives for studying personality (Eight) - CORRECT ANSWER - unconscious, ego,
cognitive, biological, conditioning, traits, spiritual, person-situation ineraction
Barnum effect - CORRECT ANSWER - The tendency to consider a personal description
accurate if it is stated in very general terms.
Ego forces - CORRECT ANSWER - One of the things that sets humans apart from other
animals is the ability to self-reflec, provides a sense of identity or self
Temperament - CORRECT ANSWER - An individual's behavioral style and characteristic
way of responding.
subjective assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - measurement that relies on interpretation.
strengths and weaknesses of subjective assement - CORRECT ANSWER - -different
observers may make different judgement
-complex phenomena may be examined and valuable insight gained
Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the
same individual over repeated testings
validity - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to
measure and to predict what it is supposed to predict
, acquiescence response set - CORRECT ANSWER - "yes", "agree", "true of me"
social desirability response set - CORRECT ANSWER - the "good" or "correct" answer,
the answer that reflects well on the test-taker
ethnic and gender bias - CORRECT ANSWER - a characteristic that is a strength in one
group may be perceived as a weakness or deficiency in another
expressive behavior measures - CORRECT ANSWER - the analysis of how people stand,
move, speak etc
demographics and lifestyle - CORRECT ANSWER - uses information about a person's
age, place of birth, gender, family size, etc., cant help researchers undesrtand people based on
their everyday lives
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Focus on the influences of early
childhood, Emphasis on unconscious motives/conflicts, Primary focus on sexual and aggressive
urges
psychic determinism - CORRECT ANSWER - the assumption leads directly to the
conclusion that many important mental processes are unconcious
internal structure - CORRECT ANSWER - the mind has an internal structure made of
parts that can function independently and, in some cases, conflict with each other
manifest content - CORRECT ANSWER - the content of a dream that a person remembers
latent content - CORRECT ANSWER - the underlying hidden meaning of a dream
