Personality Flashcards
Personality researchers are interested in which of the following issues?
A) human universals
B) individual differences
C) individual uniqueness
D) A and B only
E) A,B, and C
E) Human universals, individual differences,individual uniqueness
Personality refers to those characteristics of the( Blank1) account for (blank 2) patterns of feeling, thinking, and (blank3)
Blank 1. Person
Blank 2. Consistent
Blank 3. Behaving
Which of the following is the best example of a psychological trait?
A)sadness for 2 weeks after the end of a relationship.
B) anxiety before an important exam
C) honesty regardless of the potential consequences
D) response to a survey about an ex’s hurtful behavior.
C) honesty regardless of the potential consequences
When considering the quality of a test or measure there are two critical questions to consider. One of those questions is the extent to which you are indeed measuring what you intend to measure, which is referred to as (blank)
Validity
Jenny videotaped participants interacting as part of a study that she was conducting. Later, she asked her researon assistants to watch and code the
Videos on various personality dimensions what type of data (data source ) was Jenny trying to get?
A) L-data
B) o-data
C) T-data
D) s-data
B) o-data
The extent to which observations are replicable, stable, and dependable is referred to as (blank)
Reliability
What kind of research strategy should researchers use if the primary goal is to obtain a portrait of the potentially unique individual?
Idiographic
Personality researchers must pay attention to an important trade-off between a) the global application of their measure, referred to as (blank a) and
It’s situational specificity, referred to as ( blank b)
A) bandwidth
B) Fidelity
What kind of research strategy should researchers use if the primary goal is to obtain a common set of laws that apply to all persons
Nomothetic approach
Cindy is interested in the correlation between individuals self- report of conscientiousness and their ability to delay gratification.in her STUDY, she calculates the correlation between these two variables as -0.85., which of the following is the correct interpretation of this findings.?
A) as conscientiousness scores go up , delay of gratification scores go up.
B) the negative sign indicates a weak relationship between these two variables
C) there is no relationship between these two variables
D) Cindy must have made a mistake in her calculations , as a cop relation as large as -0.85 is never observed in empirical studies
D) Cindy must have made a mistake in her calculations , as a cop relation as large as -0.85 is never observed in empirical studies
What are Freuds two “instincts” ( desires/wishes/ drives) ?
Aggression and sex
What is the life energy? Also known as sex drive?
Libido
what is death energy? Also known as aggressive drive?
Thanatos
Two instincts/ drives/psychic energies (or what makes us “go”)
Sex drive (Libido) and Aggressive drive (Thanatos)
Freud everyday life examples for Unconsciousness processes ?
Verbal slips
Interpretations of dreams
attraction
flash of intuition
