Psy 255 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Common traits - correct answer are things everybody shares Central traits - correct answer things that most direct us Nomothetic - correct answer picking a particular trait and checking to see if they have it or where they exist on this scale. Idiographic - correct answer Examining the individual thoro...

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1.List your percentile scores for each category as they appear on the site: Open-Mindedness: Conscientiousness: Extraversion: Agreeableness: Negative Emotionality 2.The site producing the scores provides a descriptor for each score. Discuss a sentence that particularly stood out to you and why. 3.Utilizing at least one peer-reviewed resource, write a paragraph explaining the benefit of using personality testing in order to determine whether an individual should be employed in a specif...

PSY 255 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WEEK 2

A diffuse network of midbrain cells known as the midbrain _____ plays a central role in regulating states of consciousness. - correct answer reticular formation A man remembers that on his 8th birthday, he received a red bicycle from his parents. This type of memory relies on the: - correct answer hippocampus Action potentials can move both forward and backward in a neuron. - correct answer ...

dualism - correct answer the belief that the mind and body are different, the belief that there is a soul, free will exist monism - correct answer the belief that the mind is caused by the nervous system, the 'mind' is seen as a hallucination and allusion Split Brain - correct answer corpus callosum- connects the hemispheres, the left side houses al...

PSY-255 Quiz 1 CHAPTER 1-6 COMPLETE QUESTIONS ANDCORRECT ANSWERS 2023. Name: Diane Mazcareno Class: PSY-255 Date: 1/30/2020 Quiz 1 Chapters 1-6 All Question 2.5 Points Each 1. Which statement would be endorsed by a person who studies personality? a. The way we behave is determined entirely by what is going on around us. b. Most of the time we are actually not in control of our own actions. c. Behaviors originate within a person but can be influenced by outside factors. d. We are at...

Twin study method - correct answer a method of testing nature and nurture by comparing pairs of identical and fraternal twins of the same sex Extraversion/Introversion - correct answer The extent to which people are social or unsocial, talkative or quiet, affectionate or reserved Eysenck's Theory - correct answer Personality is determined by a large ...

History of René Descartes - correct answer ; believed the mind could not be studied because it is immaterial believed the pineal gland was the seed of the soul believed in a mechanistic universe body is a mechanical device using hydraulics to operate René Descartes view on dualism and his solution to the mind/body problem - correct answer I think therefore, I am Not physical = not able to be ...

memory - correct answer the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information encoding - correct answer invovles a memory code storage - correct answer involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time retrieval - correct answer involves recovering informatio...