Buss

Question 1

theory of David Buss

Answer 1

evolutionary theory of personality

Question 2

_____ starts with the assumption that individual members of any species differ from one another

Answer 2

evolution

Question 3

scientific study of human thought and behavior from an evolutionary perspective and focuses on 4 big questions

Answer 3

evolutionary psychology

Question 4

nature and nurture of personality

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• fundamental situational error
• fundamental attribution error

Question 5

tendency to assume that the environment alone can produce behaviors void of a stable internal mechanism

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fundamental situational error

Question 6

tendency to ignore situational and environmental forces when explaining the behavior of other people and instead focus on internal dispositions

Answer 6

fundamental attribution error

Question 7

adaptive problems and their solutions (mechanisms)

Answer 7

• physical mechanisms
• psychological mechanisms

Question 8

internal and specific cognitive, motivational and personality systems that solve specific survival and reproduction problems

Answer 8

psychological mechanisms

Question 9

physiological organs and systems that evolved to solve problems of survival

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physical mechanisms

Question 10

process of evolution by natural selection producing solutions to two basic problems of life

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mechanisms

Question 11

3 main categories of psychological mechanisms

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• goals / drives / motives
• emotion
• personality traits

Question 12

5-factor trait theory of buss

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• surgency / extraversion / dominance
• agreeableness
• conscientiousness
• emotional stability
• openness / intellect

Question 13

• involves the disposition to experience positive emotional states and to engage in one’s environment
• driven & ambitious

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surgency / extraversion / dominance

Question 14

marked by a person’s willingness and capacity to cooperate and help the group

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agreeableness

Question 15

involves one’s ability to handle stress or not

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emotional stability

Question 16

• one’s capacity and commitment to work
• careful & detail oriented
• focused & reliable

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conscientiousness

Question 17

involves one’s propensity for innovation and ability to solve problems

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openness / intellect

Question 18

takes forms of aggression, dominance, achievement, status, negotiation of hierarchy

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power

Question 19

takes forms of love, attachment, reciprocal alliance

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intimacy

Question 20

origins of individual differences

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• environmental sources
• heritable genetic sources
• nonadaptive sources
• maladaptive sources

Question 21

origins of personality

Answer 21

• environment
• genetics