13.2

Question 1

idiographic approaches

Answer 1

person-centered approaches to studying personality; they focus on individual lives and how various characteristics are integrated into unique persons

*assume all individuals are unique

Question 2

nomothetic approaches

Answer 2

approaches to studying personality that focus on how common characteristics vary from person to person.

Question 3

projective measures

Answer 3

personality tests that examine unconscious processes by having people interpret ambiguous stimuli

*inklot test

Question 4

Objective measures

Answer 4

relatively direct assessments of personality, usually based on information gathered through self-report questionnaires or observer ratings

Question 5

situationism

Answer 5

The theory that behavior is determined more by situations than by personality traits

Question 6

interactionists

Answer 6

Theorists who believe that behavior is determined jointly by situations and underlying dispositions