Personality Psych: Exam 1 (Ch.1-4)
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psychological triad - ✔✔how people feel, think, and behave
personality - ✔✔an individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling
basic approach (to personality) - ✔✔a theoretical view of personality that focuses on
some phenomena and ignores others. The basic approaches are trait, biological,
psychoanalytic, phenomenological, learning, and cognitive (the last two being closely
related)
trait approach - ✔✔an approach to studying personality that focuses on how
individuals differ in personality and behavior, and the psychological processes behind
them
biological approach - ✔✔an approach to psychology focusing on the body, especially
the brain and nervous system
psychoanalytic approach - ✔✔psychological perspective concerned with how
unconscious instincts, conflicts, motives, and defenses influence behavior
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,phenomenological approach - ✔✔a research approach that seeks in-depth explanations
of human experiences
learning - ✔✔in behaviorism, a change in behavior as a result of experience
Funder's First Law - ✔✔great strengths are usually great weaknesses and vice versa
Why have personality psychologists not combined all paradigms into "one big theory"?
- ✔✔A theory that tries to explain everything would probably not provide the best
explanation for any one thing AND the different basic approaches to psychology
address different sets of questions
Personality psychology's biggest advantage over other areas of psychology is that: -
✔✔The psychology of whole persons and real-life concerns is taken into account
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with how a person's genes, physiology, and
brain anatomy are related to their personality follows the ___________ approach. -
✔✔biological
When patterns of behavior are extreme, unusual, and problematic, personality
psychology overlaps with: - ✔✔Clinical psychology
How people feel, think, and behave are parts of: - ✔✔The psychological triad
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with a person's conscious experiences
follows the ___________ approach. - ✔✔phenomenological
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, Personality psychology primarily looks to: - ✔✔Explain whole persons
Which of the following answers is an example of a basic approach, or paradigm, of
personality psychology? - ✔✔The psychoanalytic approach
How do clinical psychology and personality psychology overlap? - ✔✔Clinical and
personality psychology share a common responsibility to understand every feature of
an individual, not just single aspects about them.
To which other branch of psychology does personality psychology most closely align? -
✔✔Clinical psychology
The three parts of the psychological triad: - ✔✔Are not always consistent at all times
When defining personality, we could say that an individual's personality is best
described as: - ✔✔Their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior
together with the psychological mechanisms—hidden or not—behind those patterns
The trait approach to personality psychology best describes what situation? - ✔✔A
psychologist focusing on ways that people differ from one another in behavior and
disposition, and how these differences might be measured
A personality psychologist that is concerned primarily with people's unconscious mind
and internal conflict follows what approach? - ✔✔Psychoanalytic approach
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psychological triad - ✔✔how people feel, think, and behave
personality - ✔✔an individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling
basic approach (to personality) - ✔✔a theoretical view of personality that focuses on
some phenomena and ignores others. The basic approaches are trait, biological,
psychoanalytic, phenomenological, learning, and cognitive (the last two being closely
related)
trait approach - ✔✔an approach to studying personality that focuses on how
individuals differ in personality and behavior, and the psychological processes behind
them
biological approach - ✔✔an approach to psychology focusing on the body, especially
the brain and nervous system
psychoanalytic approach - ✔✔psychological perspective concerned with how
unconscious instincts, conflicts, motives, and defenses influence behavior
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,phenomenological approach - ✔✔a research approach that seeks in-depth explanations
of human experiences
learning - ✔✔in behaviorism, a change in behavior as a result of experience
Funder's First Law - ✔✔great strengths are usually great weaknesses and vice versa
Why have personality psychologists not combined all paradigms into "one big theory"?
- ✔✔A theory that tries to explain everything would probably not provide the best
explanation for any one thing AND the different basic approaches to psychology
address different sets of questions
Personality psychology's biggest advantage over other areas of psychology is that: -
✔✔The psychology of whole persons and real-life concerns is taken into account
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with how a person's genes, physiology, and
brain anatomy are related to their personality follows the ___________ approach. -
✔✔biological
When patterns of behavior are extreme, unusual, and problematic, personality
psychology overlaps with: - ✔✔Clinical psychology
How people feel, think, and behave are parts of: - ✔✔The psychological triad
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with a person's conscious experiences
follows the ___________ approach. - ✔✔phenomenological
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, Personality psychology primarily looks to: - ✔✔Explain whole persons
Which of the following answers is an example of a basic approach, or paradigm, of
personality psychology? - ✔✔The psychoanalytic approach
How do clinical psychology and personality psychology overlap? - ✔✔Clinical and
personality psychology share a common responsibility to understand every feature of
an individual, not just single aspects about them.
To which other branch of psychology does personality psychology most closely align? -
✔✔Clinical psychology
The three parts of the psychological triad: - ✔✔Are not always consistent at all times
When defining personality, we could say that an individual's personality is best
described as: - ✔✔Their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior
together with the psychological mechanisms—hidden or not—behind those patterns
The trait approach to personality psychology best describes what situation? - ✔✔A
psychologist focusing on ways that people differ from one another in behavior and
disposition, and how these differences might be measured
A personality psychologist that is concerned primarily with people's unconscious mind
and internal conflict follows what approach? - ✔✔Psychoanalytic approach
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