Personality Part 1

Question 1

An individual’s characteristics and patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

Name the 3 ways you can study personality?

Answer 2

1. Not controlling experiments
2. Idiographic
3. Nomothetic

Question 3

Why can you not have a controlled experiment with personality?

Answer 3

Because everyone is unique & different

Question 4

Focuses on understanding the unique aspects of each individual personality

Answer 4

Idiographic

Question 5

Measured through data, case studies, interviews, & naturalistic observation

Answer 5

Idiographic

Question 6

Focuses on variables at the group level and identifying universal traits

Answer 6

Nomothetic

Question 7

Measured through tests, surveys, and observations

Answer 7

Nomothetic

Question 8

Freud’s approach that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality

Answer 8

Psychoanalytic

Question 9

Focuses on inner capacities for growth & self-fulfilment

Answer 9

Humanistic

Question 10

Patterns of behavior or conscious motives which can be self assessed

Answer 10

Trait

Question 11

Seeks to identify basic traits needed to describe personality

Answer 11

Trait

Question 12

Focuses on learning, cognition, and social influence

Answer 12

Social-Cognition

Question 13

What person was known for Social-Cognition

Answer 13

Albert Bandura

Question 14

What is the first comprehensive theory on personality

Answer 14

Psychoanalytic Perspective

Question 15

The Psychoanalytic Perspective is by who?

Answer 15

Sigmund Freud

Question 16

What are the 3 levels of the mind

Answer 16

1. Conscious
2. Preconscious
3. Unconscious/Subconscious

Question 17

What we are aware of at a particular time, Sense of reality

Answer 17

Conscious

Question 18

What we can be voluntarily called into awareness (thoughts, feelings, memories)

Answer 18

Preconscious

Question 19

Thoughts, feelings, desires of which we cannot become aware of

Answer 19

Unconscious/Subconscious

Question 20

Involved repression, glimpse of this is revealed by Freudian slips or dreams

Answer 20

Unconscious/Subconscious

Question 21

Fill in the blank, the mind is like a iceberg, mostly ______

Answer 21

Hidden