Intro

Question 1

What is the psychological triad?

Answer 1

How people think, feel and behave

Question 2

What is personality?

Answer 2

Individual’s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviour over time and across situations and the factors behind it

Question 3

What is the basic approach?

Answer 3

Theoretical view that focuses on some phenomenon while ignoring others, e.g trait approach

Question 4

What is Funder’s first law?

Answer 4

Great weaknesses are often great strengths and vice versa.

Question 5

What is personality psychology?

Answer 5

The study of how individuals are different from each other.

Question 6

What are the approaches to understanding psychology?

Answer 6

Trait approach, focuses on how people differ from each other
Biological approach, focuses on what biological mechanisms underlie individual differences
Psychoanalytic approach, focuses on conflict and the unconscious
Phenomenological approach, focuses on the conscious
Social learning and cognitive.

Question 7

What is the pro and con of the basic approach and the pro and con of the one big theory?

Answer 7

Basic approach:
pro: good at addressing certain topics
con: poor at addressing other topics
One Big Theory:
pro: inclusive and interesting
con: over inclusive or unfocused