Personality Psych Exam 1 ch 1-4
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Personality psychology - ✔✔the scientific study of the psychological forces that make
people uniquely themselves, studies how people think, feel, and behanve
Perspectives for studying personality (Eight) - ✔✔unconscious, ego, cognitive,
biological, conditioning, traits, spiritual, person-situation ineraction
Barnum effect - ✔✔The tendency to consider a personal description accurate if it is
stated in very general terms.
Ego forces - ✔✔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 - ✔✔An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of
responding.
subjective assessment - ✔✔measurement that relies on interpretation.
strengths and weaknesses of subjective assement - ✔✔-different observers may make
different judgement
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 1
, -complex phenomena may be examined and valuable insight gained
Reliability - ✔✔Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over
repeated testings
validity - ✔✔Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict
what it is supposed to predict
acquiescence response set - ✔✔"yes", "agree", "true of me"
social desirability response set - ✔✔the "good" or "correct" answer, the answer that
reflects well on the test-taker
ethnic and gender bias - ✔✔a characteristic that is a strength in one group may be
perceived as a weakness or deficiency in another
expressive behavior measures - ✔✔the analysis of how people stand, move, speak etc
demographics and lifestyle - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Focus on the influences of early childhood,
Emphasis on unconscious motives/conflicts, Primary focus on sexual and aggressive
urges
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 2
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Personality psychology - ✔✔the scientific study of the psychological forces that make
people uniquely themselves, studies how people think, feel, and behanve
Perspectives for studying personality (Eight) - ✔✔unconscious, ego, cognitive,
biological, conditioning, traits, spiritual, person-situation ineraction
Barnum effect - ✔✔The tendency to consider a personal description accurate if it is
stated in very general terms.
Ego forces - ✔✔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 - ✔✔An individual's behavioral style and characteristic way of
responding.
subjective assessment - ✔✔measurement that relies on interpretation.
strengths and weaknesses of subjective assement - ✔✔-different observers may make
different judgement
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 1
, -complex phenomena may be examined and valuable insight gained
Reliability - ✔✔Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over
repeated testings
validity - ✔✔Ability of a test to measure what it is supposed to measure and to predict
what it is supposed to predict
acquiescence response set - ✔✔"yes", "agree", "true of me"
social desirability response set - ✔✔the "good" or "correct" answer, the answer that
reflects well on the test-taker
ethnic and gender bias - ✔✔a characteristic that is a strength in one group may be
perceived as a weakness or deficiency in another
expressive behavior measures - ✔✔the analysis of how people stand, move, speak etc
demographics and lifestyle - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Focus on the influences of early childhood,
Emphasis on unconscious motives/conflicts, Primary focus on sexual and aggressive
urges
100% Pass Guarantee Olivia West, All Rights Reserved © 2025 2
