p1 - topic 1: personality

Question 1

assimilation

Answer 1

new ideas are aligned with old ones

Question 2

accommodation

Answer 2

change old ideas into new ones

Question 3

gordon allport’s definition of personality

Answer 3

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 4

types of narcissism

Answer 4

grandiosity
vulnerability

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

approaches to personality psych

Answer 7

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