Ch 1 Flashcards
What is personality?
The unique and (relatively) enduring set of behaviors, feelings, and thoughts that characterize an individual Unique: • Features that differentiate people from one another • ex: being more/less talkative than most people • Individual Differences
Psychological triad
- how people behave
- Have they feel
- how people think
Persona
- how you present to others
- individual differences
- some obvious
- some not
- not congruent to internal
Personality is a ____ topic
Hub
Trait Approach
How people differ psychologically
biological approach
understands the mind in terms of the body
Psychoanalytic approach
focus on the unconscious mind and internal mental conflict
Phenomenal approach
focus on people’s conscious experience of the world
Humanistic
how conscious awareness produces uniquely human attributes; understand meaning and basis of happiness
Cross-cultral
how the experience of reality might be different across cultural
Learning and cognitive approach
- Learning
- Classic behaviorism
- Social learning
- Cognitive personality
Learning
how behavior changes as a result of rewards,
punishments, and other life experiences
Classic Behaviorism
focuses on overt behavior
Social Learning
how observation and self-evaluation determine behavior
Cognitive personality
focuses on cognitive processes, including perception, memory, and thought
One Big Theory (OBT)
- To explain everything
* But it’s difficult to do everything well.
Major advocates of basic approaches have claimed their approach
explains everything worth explaining.
- They are not mutually exclusive.
- They address different questions or key concerns.
- Each ignores many key concerns.
Personality involves distinctive patterns of feelings,
thinking, and behaviors
T or F
True
Personality qualities are at least somewhat consistent over time
T or F
True
Personality is only an aspect of social interaction and does
not typically fit into other aspects of life
T or F
False
Personality psychology is a subfield within psychology, similar to Social or I/O psych
T or F
False
We can make some predictions about a person’s
behavior based on their personality
T or F
True
If we know about a person’s personality, we know exactly how they will be behave
T or F
False
