Theorists' Personalities and their Theories of Personality

Question 1

a subdiscipline of psychology that look at personal traits of scientists

Answer 1

psychology of science

Question 2

studies both science and the behavior of scientists

Answer 2

psychology of science

Question 3

it investigates the impact of individual scientists’ psychological process and personal characteristics on the development of their scientific theories and research.

Answer 3

psychology of science

Question 4

examines how scientists’ personalities, cognitive processes, developmental histories, and social experiences affect the kind of science they conduct and the theories they create.

Answer 4

psychology of science

Question 5

True or false:
A number of investigation demonstrated that personality differences influence one’s theoretical orientation as well as one’s inclination to lean toward the “hard” or “soft” side of discipline

Answer 5

true

Question 6

true or false:
an understanding of theories of personality rests on information regarding the historical, social, and psychological world of each theorists at the time of their theorizing.

Answer 6

true

Question 7

personality differences among theorists account for fundamental disagreement between those who lean toward the

Answer 7

quantitative side and qualitative side

Question 8

behaviorists, social learning theorists, and trait theorists belong to _______ side

Answer 8

quantitative

Question 9

psychoanalysts, humanists and existentialists belong to ______ side

Answer 9

clinical and qualitative

Question 10

true or false:

your acceptance of one or another theory should not rest only on your personal values and predictions

Answer 10

true

Question 11

true or false
when evaluating and choosing a theory, you should acknowledge the impact of the theorist’s personal history on the theory, but you should evaluate it on the basis of scientific criteria that are independent of that personal history.

Answer 11

true

Question 12

_________may be influenced by the personal characteristics of scientist, but the ultimate usefulness of the ________t is and must be evaluated independently of the process.

Answer 12

scientific process/ scientific product

Question 13

true or false

evaluation of the theories should rest more on objective criteria than on subjective likes and dislikes

Answer 13

true