Chaper 1 Flashcards
Personality refers to..
An individuals characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, along with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns.
What are the three parts of the psychological triad?
How people think
How people feel
How people behave
A personality psychologist who focuses on the ways that people differ psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized and measured would be following which type of approach?
Trait Approach
A personality psychologist who addresses biological mechanisms such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, even evolution, and their reverence for personality are using which type of approach?
Biological approach
A personality psychologist who is concerned primarily with the unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal mental conflict are using which type of approach?
Psychoanalytic approach
A personality psychologist who focuses on people’s conscious experience of the world, their phenomenology are following which type of approach?
Phenomenological approach
Which program of theory and research pursues how conscious awareness can produce such uniquely human attributes as existential anxiety, creativity, and free will, and tries to understand the meaning and basis of happiness?
Humanistic psychology
Which program of theory and research emphasizes the degree to which psychology and the very experience of reality might vary across cultures?
Cross-cultural psychology
Which personality psychologist concentrate on the ways people change their behavior as a result of rewards, punishments, and other experiences in life, they are following which approach?
Learning approach
Which theory attempts to draw inferences about the ways that mental processes such as observation and self-evaluation determine how behaviors are learned and performed?
Social learning theory
What comprises the learning and cognitive process approached to personality?
Behaviorism, social learning theory, and cognitive personality psychology.
What are the five basic approaches to personality psychology?
Trait, biological, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and learning and cognitive processes.
What is Funder’s First Law?
Great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and the opposite is true as well.
