personality

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

an individual‘s consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving.

Question 2

physiognomy

Answer 2

the idea that it is possible to assess personality from facial characteristics.

Question 3

traits

Answer 3

which are relatively enduring characteristics that influence our behavior across many situations

Question 4

The Big Five dimensions

Answer 4

valid and accurately predict behavior.

Question 5

Barnum effect—

Answer 5

the observation that people tend to believe in descriptions of their personality that supposedly are descriptive of them but could in fact describe almost anyone.

Question 6

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Answer 6

used to detect personality and psychological disorders.

Question 7

psychodynamic approach

Answer 7

understanding personality, begun by Sigmund Freud, is based on the idea that all behaviors are predetermined by motivations that lie outside our awareness, in
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the unconscious.