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Ch 1 Flashcards

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1
Q

What is personality?

A 
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
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2
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Psychological triad

A
  • how people behave
  • Have they feel
  • how people think
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3
Q

Persona

A
  • how you present to others
  • individual differences
  • some obvious
  • some not
  • not congruent to internal
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4
Q

Personality is a ____ topic

A

Hub

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5
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Trait Approach

A

How people differ psychologically

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6
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biological approach

A

understands the mind in terms of the body

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Psychoanalytic approach

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focus on the unconscious mind and internal mental conflict

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Phenomenal approach

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focus on people’s conscious experience of the world

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9
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Humanistic

A

how conscious awareness produces uniquely human attributes; understand meaning and basis of happiness

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10
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Cross-cultral

A

how the experience of reality might be different across cultural

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11
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Learning and cognitive approach

A
  • Learning
  • Classic behaviorism
  • Social learning
  • Cognitive personality
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12
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Learning

A

how behavior changes as a result of rewards,

punishments, and other life experiences

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13
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Classic Behaviorism

A

focuses on overt behavior

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14
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Social Learning

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how observation and self-evaluation determine behavior

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15
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Cognitive personality

A

focuses on cognitive processes, including perception, memory, and thought

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16
Q

One Big Theory (OBT)

A
  • To explain everything

* But it’s difficult to do everything well.

17
Q

Major advocates of basic approaches have claimed their approach
explains everything worth explaining.

A
  • They are not mutually exclusive.
  • They address different questions or key concerns.
  • Each ignores many key concerns.
18
Q

Personality involves distinctive patterns of feelings,
thinking, and behaviors
T or F

A

True

19
Q

Personality qualities are at least somewhat consistent over time
T or F

A

True

20
Q

Personality is only an aspect of social interaction and does
not typically fit into other aspects of life
T or F

A

False

21
Q

Personality psychology is a subfield within psychology, similar to Social or I/O psych
T or F

A

False

22
Q

We can make some predictions about a person’s
behavior based on their personality
T or F

A

True

23
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If we know about a person’s personality, we know exactly how they will be behave
T or F

A

False

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