Psyc211

Question 1

What is personality psychology

Answer 1

The study of people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours

Question 2

Challenges in personality psyc

Answer 2

Inaccessible, measure indirectly, self reports

Question 3

Self report

Answer 3

Pros: access to people’s inner thoughts, easy to get responses, less expensive.

Cons: Participant may lie, may answer differently to how you wanted, sensitive question

Question 4

Informant report data

Answer 4

Pros: People used to answer these question, similar to self report but less 1st person biases.

Cons: Potential for 3rd person bias, limited knowledge of target

Question 5

4 types of personality research

Answer 5

1. correlational 2. experimental 3. natural or quasi 4. moderation by individual differences

Question 6

Correlational Research

Answer 6

Examines the relation between two variable.

Pros: simple to collect, test relationships

Cons: Can’t test causation, can’t answer why

Question 7

Two types of tests to assess personality

Answer 7

Projective and Objective