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Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4): Personality of
Psychology Questions with Correct Answers
for a Specific Exam Mail
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
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?
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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 __________.
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
One disadvantage of creating "One Big Theory" of personality psychology is
that __________.
Ans: It would explain some parts of behavior well and other parts not as well
Personality psychology can be organized into __________ basic approaches.
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Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4): Personality of
Psychology Questions with Correct Answers
for a Specific Exam Mail
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
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?
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 2
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 __________.
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
One disadvantage of creating "One Big Theory" of personality psychology is
that __________.
Ans: It would explain some parts of behavior well and other parts not as well
Personality psychology can be organized into __________ basic approaches.
Pretest - Stuvia US
