W1 Chapter 1.3 - Perspectives on Personality

Question 1

What are the ten perspectives of personality theory?

Answer 1

1. The trait perspective
2. The motive perspective
3. The inheritance and evolution perspective
4. The biological process perspective
5. The psychoanalytic perspective
6. The psychosocial perspective
7. The learning perspective
8. The self-actualization and self-determination perspective
9. The cognitive perspective
10. The self-regulation perspective

Question 2

What is the trait perspective?

Answer 2

The intuitive idea that people have fairly stable traits that are displayed across many settings and are deeply embedded in the person

Question 3

What is the motive perspective?

Answer 3

The key element in human experience is the motive forces that underlie behaviour

Question 4

What is the inheritance and evolution perspective?

Answer 4

Humans are creatures that evolved across millennia and that human nature is deeply root in our genes

Question 5

What is the biological process perspective?

Answer 5

How the nervous system and hormones influence people’s behaviour and how differences in those functions influence the kind of person you are

Question 6

What is the psychoanalytic perspective?

Answer 6

the idea that personality is a set of internal psychic forces that compete and conflict with one another

Question 7

What is the psychosocial perspective?

Answer 7

The idea that the most important aspect of human nature is our formation of relationships with other people and the ways these relationships play out.

Question 8

What is the learning perspective?

Answer 8

The view that behaviour changes systematically as a result of experiences

Question 9

What is the self-actualization and self-determination perspective?

Answer 9

The idea that people naturally tend toward self-perfection so personality is partly the uniqueness hidden within and partly what the person chooses to make of the uniqueness

Question 10

What is the cognitive perspective?

Answer 10

Understanding the processes of perceiving the world and how they determine one’s actions and reactions to the world

Question 11

What is the self-regulation perspective?

Answer 11

the idea that people are complex psychological systems that strive to synthesise goals and move towards those goals

Question 12

The self-actualization and self-determination perspective is also know as …..

Answer 12

The organismic perspective

Question 13

What are the seven topic people argue should be included in understanding personality?

Answer 13

1. genetic design
2. dispositional traits
3. motives and values
4. abilities
5. adaptations (beliefs)
6. integrative narratives
7. culture