Chaper 1

Question 0

Personality refers to..

Answer 0

An individuals characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, along with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns.

Question 1

What are the three parts of the psychological triad?

Answer 1

How people think
How people feel
How people behave

Question 2

A personality psychologist who focuses on the ways that people differ psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized and measured would be following which type of approach?

Answer 2

Trait Approach

Question 3

A personality psychologist who addresses biological mechanisms such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, even evolution, and their reverence for personality are using which type of approach?

Answer 3

Biological approach

Question 4

A personality psychologist who is concerned primarily with the unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal mental conflict are using which type of approach?

Answer 4

Psychoanalytic approach

Question 5

A personality psychologist who focuses on people’s conscious experience of the world, their phenomenology are following which type of approach?

Answer 5

Phenomenological approach

Question 6

Which program of theory and research pursues how conscious awareness can produce such uniquely human attributes as existential anxiety, creativity, and free will, and tries to understand the meaning and basis of happiness?

Answer 6

Humanistic psychology

Question 7

Which program of theory and research emphasizes the degree to which psychology and the very experience of reality might vary across cultures?

Answer 7

Cross-cultural psychology

Question 8

Which personality psychologist concentrate on the ways people change their behavior as a result of rewards, punishments, and other experiences in life, they are following which approach?

Answer 8

Learning approach

Question 9

Which theory attempts to draw inferences about the ways that mental processes such as observation and self-evaluation determine how behaviors are learned and performed?

Answer 9

Social learning theory

Question 10

What comprises the learning and cognitive process approached to personality?

Answer 10

Behaviorism, social learning theory, and cognitive personality psychology.

Question 11

What are the five basic approaches to personality psychology?

Answer 11

Trait, biological, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and learning and cognitive processes.

Question 12

What is Funder’s First Law?

Answer 12

Great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and the opposite is true as well.