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Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4): Personality of
Psychology Questions and Correct
Answers
A personality psychologist who is concerned primarily with
people's unconscious mind and internal conflict follows what
approach?
Ans: Psychoanalytic Approach
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with a person's
conscious experiences follows the __________ approach.
Ans: Phenomenological
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with how a
person's genes, physiology, and brain anatomy are related to
his or her personality follows the __________ approach.
Ans: Biological
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A systematic, self-imposed limitation of observations,
patterns, and ways of thinking about these patterns is called
__________.
Ans: The Basic Approach
Behaviorism, social learning theory, and cognitive
personality psychology comprise which of the following
approaches to psychology?
Ans: Learning and Cognitive Approach
How do clinical psychology and personality psychology
overlap?
Ans: Clinical and personality psychology share a
common responsibility to understand every feature of
an individual, not just single aspects about them.
How people feel, think, and behave are parts of __________.
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Ans: The Psychological Triad
Humanistic psychology pursues how conscious awareness
can produce uniquely human attributes such as __________.
Ans: existential anxiety, creativity, and free will
Is "stubbornness" a good personality trait to have?
Ans: Yes and no; it can be a strength in some
situations and a weakness in others
One branch of the phenomenological approach focuses on
how conscious awareness produces uniquely human
attributes and the other branch focuses on __________.
Ans: the degree to which the experience of reality may
be different in different cultures
Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4): Personality of
Psychology Questions and Correct
Answers
A personality psychologist who is concerned primarily with
people's unconscious mind and internal conflict follows what
approach?
Ans: Psychoanalytic Approach
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with a person's
conscious experiences follows the __________ approach.
Ans: Phenomenological
A psychologist who is concerned primarily with how a
person's genes, physiology, and brain anatomy are related to
his or her personality follows the __________ approach.
Ans: Biological
,Page 2
A systematic, self-imposed limitation of observations,
patterns, and ways of thinking about these patterns is called
__________.
Ans: The Basic Approach
Behaviorism, social learning theory, and cognitive
personality psychology comprise which of the following
approaches to psychology?
Ans: Learning and Cognitive Approach
How do clinical psychology and personality psychology
overlap?
Ans: Clinical and personality psychology share a
common responsibility to understand every feature of
an individual, not just single aspects about them.
How people feel, think, and behave are parts of __________.
, Page 3
Ans: The Psychological Triad
Humanistic psychology pursues how conscious awareness
can produce uniquely human attributes such as __________.
Ans: existential anxiety, creativity, and free will
Is "stubbornness" a good personality trait to have?
Ans: Yes and no; it can be a strength in some
situations and a weakness in others
One branch of the phenomenological approach focuses on
how conscious awareness produces uniquely human
attributes and the other branch focuses on __________.
Ans: the degree to which the experience of reality may
be different in different cultures
