Ones To Remember

Question 1

Lexical hypothesis

Answer 1

All aspects of human personality which are or have been of importance have already become recorded in language

Question 2

Empirical

Answer 2

Observable data
Objective data
Knowledge is verifiable

Question 3

Sternbergs 3 aspects of intelligence

Answer 3

Analytic
Creative
Practical

Question 4

Causal primacy

Answer 4

Assumption that traits determine behaviour

Question 5

Top down processing

Answer 5

Perception is active and constructive.

Not just determined by the stimulus

Question 6

Bottom up processing

Answer 6

Stimulus
Cognitive process
Response

Question 7

Procedural knowledge

Answer 7

Knowledge HOW to do something

Question 8

Declarative knowledge

Answer 8

Knowledge ABOUT something

Question 9

Endocrine system

Answer 9

Major control system of the body.

Based on hormones

Question 10

Reductionism

Answer 10

Complex phenomena can be best understood by reducing them to separate similar parts

Question 11

Emergence

Answer 11

Properties only exist when a system is viewed in its entirety

Question 12

Piaget - processes for cognitive development

Answer 12

Assimilation and accommodation

Question 13

Lexical tradition

Answer 13

Using words to describe personality based attributes

Question 14

Multivariate approach

Answer 14

Use of multivariate models of personality structure

Question 15

Induction

Answer 15

All facts are constructed and subject to selection and censorship

Question 16

Phrenology

Answer 16

Measurements of the human skull

Question 17

Cognition

Answer 17

Processes of knowing - remembering and reasoning

Question 18

Congruence

Answer 18

Self concept - how we view ourselves

Question 19

Self actualisation

Answer 19

The basics drive of the human organism.

The drive to reach ones full potential as a human

Question 20

Assimilation

Answer 20

Adding to existing knowledge

Question 21

Accommodation

Answer 21

Look at things differently based on new experiences

Question 22

Checkland - science is a human activity characterised by :

Answer 22

Reductionism
Repeatability
Refutation

Question 23

Hypo seductive model

Answer 23

Theories - hypothesis - tested against facts.

If there is a discrepancy- theory is reformulated

Question 24

Hypo deduction

Answer 24

Real world 
Confirm/disconfirm 
Theory 
Reasoning 
Hypothesis 
Experiment 

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Question 25

Operational definitions

Answer 25

Precisely worded in terms of the operations necessary to measure something