Chapter 1

Question 1

what is the psychological triad?

Answer 1

How people feel, think and behave

Question 2

Personality is_______

Answer 2

the individuals characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns

Question 3

What are the 5 basic approaches to Personality?

Answer 3

1) Trait approach
2) Biological approach
3) Psychoanalytic approach
4) Phenomenological approach
5) Learning and cognitive approach
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Question 4

Trait approach

Answer 4

Conceptualization of individual differences, measurement of individual differences, (personality traits)

Question 5

Biological approach

Answer 5

Anatomy, physiology, genetics, evolution

Question 6

Psychoanalytic approach

Answer 6

Unconscious mind, Internal mental conflict

Question 7

Phenomenological approach

Answer 7

Conscious awareness and experience of the world, Humanisitic psychology, cross- cultural psychology

Question 8

Learning and cognitive approach

Answer 8

Behaviourism, social learning theory, cognitive personality psychology