Chapter 1

Question 1

personality

Answer 1

someone’s usual pattern of behavior, feelings, and thoughts, tendencies

Question 2

determinants of personality

Answer 2

genetics, parenting, relationships with peers, culture

Question 3

four roots of personality psychology

Answer 3

assessment and measurement, trait models, psychodynamics, self-processes

Question 4

assessment and measurement

Answer 4

shape personality into quantitative science, personal data sheet, first personality measure

Question 5

trait models

Answer 5

belief that personality is made of descriptive units called traits, individual units are traits, combine to make complex structures, lexical theory

Question 6

self-process

Answer 6

examine question of identity and self-presentation, necessary to operate in culture

Question 7

psychodynamics

Answer 7

person in relationship to complex unconscious mental structures, describe whole person, Freud and iceberg of ego and id

Question 8

where we can see personality and assess

Answer 8

can assess some without formal measures, social interaction, social media, products, work and living spaces, mannerisms

Question 9

person-situation debate

Answer 9

debate over whether personality truly exists at all

Question 10

person argument

Answer 10

stable personality traits predict behavior, individual’s personality is more powerful than situation

Question 11

situation argument

Answer 11

situation is more important, personality doesn’t really exist (Milgram shock experiment)

Question 12

resolution to personality-situation argument

Answer 12

both influence behavior and they interact in different ways

Question 13

how person and situation interact to influence behavior

Answer 13

experiences, respond differently, choose situations, change situations they enter