p1 - topic 1: personality

Question 1

gordon allport’s definition of personality

Answer 1

dynamic organisation of psychophysical systems inside the person that create the person’s unique way of adaptation to the environment; patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings

Question 2

approaches to personality psych

Answer 2

dispositional (type + trait, motivational, bio/evolutionary)
learning theories (conditioning, social representation/schema theories)
depth psychology
phenomenological / humanistic

Question 3

assimilation

Answer 3

new ideas are aligned with old ones

Question 4

response equivalence in trait theory

Answer 4

having the same reaction to different events

Question 5

approaches to personality testing and research

Answer 5

idiographic and nomothetic

Question 6

research traditions in personality psych

Answer 6

clinical
correlational
experimental

Question 7

why is it important to assess personality

Answer 7

• testing personality theories -> better understanding of personality functioning and making predictions
• to be able to describe individuals and compare groups of people

Question 8

stimulus equivalence in trait theory

Answer 8

the ability of an individual to recognize and respond to the relationships between different stimuli and perceiving different events as the same

Question 9

personality psychology definition

Answer 9

examines concepts referring to internal factors in order to explain/understand/predict human behaviour

Question 10

accommodation

Answer 10

change old ideas into new ones

Question 11

types of narcissism

Answer 11

grandiosity
vulnerability