Chapter 1: The Study of the Person Flashcards
What are the three parts of the psychology triad?
- How people feel
- How people think
- How people behave
What are the five basic approaches?
- Trait approach
- Biological approach
- Psychoanalytic approach
- Phenomenological approach
- Learning and cognitive approach
What is the paradigm of the trait approach?
It it how people differ psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized, measured, and followed over time.
What is the paradigm of the biological approach?
It is to understand the mind in terms of the body.
What is the paradigm of the psychoanalytic approach?
It focuses on people’s conscious experience of the world.
What is the paradigm of the learning and cognitive approach?
It focuses on cognitive processes that applies insights and methods derived from the study of perception, memory, and thought.
What are the focal topics of the trait approach?
- Conceptualization of individual differences
- Measurement of individual differences
- Consequences of individual differences
- Personality development
- Personality change
What are the focal topics of the biological approach?
- Anatomy
- Physiology
- Genetics
- Evolution
What are the focal topics of the psychoanalytic approach?
- Conscious awareness and experience
- Free will
- Humanistic psychology
- Cross-cultural psychology
What are the focal topics of the learning and cognitive approach?
- Learning
- Classic behaviourism
- Social and learning theory
- Cognitive personality psychology:
The goal of personality psychology is to…
a. explain the whole person in his or her daily environment
b. explain how people think in ways that differ from each other
c. understand extreme patterns of personality
d. develop One Big Theory to explain everything about personality
a. explain the whole person in his or her daily environment
The basic approaches or paradigms of personality psychology…
a. can be combined to create One Big Theory
b. are in competition with each other to offer the best explanation of personality
c. are useful because one approach cannot sufficiently explain all of personality
d. are not useful because they are too limited.
c. are useful because one approach cannot sufficiently explain all of personality
What is a strength of personality psychology?
a. It uses pigeonholing
b. It treats all people as if they were the same
c. The basic approaches ignore areas they cannot explain
d. It is inclusive, interesting, and important
d. It is inclusive, interesting, and important
What is Funder’s first law?
Strengths and weaknesses are so connected hat one can’t usually exist without the other
Jeff suspects that his roommate’s sexist jokes may indicate that his roommate has some hidden, unconscious hostility toward women or that he feels very insecure around women. Jeff’s analysis suggests a ________ approach to personality.
a. trait
b. humanistic
c. behaviourist
d. phenomenological
e. psychoanalytic
e. psychoanalytic
