Chapter 1- Exam 1

Question 1

What is a psychological triad?

Answer 1

combination of how people think, feel, and behave

Question 2

What is personality?

Answer 2

An individual’s characteristic pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors together with the psychological mechanism
- An individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

Question 3

What is trait approach?

Answer 3

How people differ psychologically

-Big 5 personality traits

Question 4

What is the biological approach?

Answer 4

Understanding the mind in terms of the body

Question 5

What is the phenomenological approach?

Answer 5

Focuses on conscious experience of the world.

• Humanistic psychology: how conscious awareness produces unique human attributes.
• Cross cultural: how the experience of reality varies across cultures

Question 6

What is the psychoanalytic approach?

Answer 6

Primary concern is with the unconscious mind, internal mental conflicts, and early attachments.

Question 7

What is learning approach?

Answer 7

How behavior changes as a result of rewards, punishments, and life experiences

• Classic behaviorism: focus on overt behaviors
• Cognitive approach: is social learning (learning through observation) and cognitive processes, focusing on perception, memory, and thought