Week 17

Question 0

39. Distinguish between personality types and traits.

B) Traits

Answer 0

One durable characteristic of a person.

Question 1

39. Distinguish between personality types and traits.

A) personality

Answer 1

A particular pattern of behavior and thinking that prevails across time and situations, and differentiates one person from another.

Question 2

39. Distinguish between personality types and traits.

C) Types

Answer 2

Collections of traits that are said to her together in some individuals.

Question 3

40. Explain research to identify personality traits by Allport and Cartell and the 5 factor model.
    A) Allport

Answer 3

Interested in determining the basic traits to describe all personality types. He identified 18,000 English adjectives that could describe an individual’s personality.

Question 4

40. Explain research to identify personality traits by Allport and Cartell and the 5 factor model.
    B) Cartell

Answer 4

Narrowed Allport’s list down to 16 core personality traits by using factor analysis. Correlations. He created the 16PF questionnaire with this.

Question 5

40. Explain research to identify personality traits by Allport and Cartell and the 5 factor model.
    C) 5 Factor Model

Answer 5

Personality researchers have concluded that five personality dimensions best to capture all personality types. Ocean.

Question 6

40. Explain research to identify personality traits by Allport and Cartell and the 5 factor model.
    D) Ocean

Answer 6

Openness to experience, consensus mess, extroversion, agreeableness, eroticism.

Question 7

41. Explain the psychological approach to personality.

A) what is personality affected by?

Answer 7

Personality is affected by the interaction between genetics and environment. We can’t easily separate them.

Question 8

41. Explain the psychological approach to personality.

B) The big five and genetics

Answer 8

The preliminary finding is that the big five I strongly affected by genetics

Question 9

41. Explain the psychological approach to personality.

C) Julian Rotler

Answer 9

Julian Rottler believed that based on experience, people decide to believe that what happens to them either is or is not controlled by their own efforts. This is called their locus of control.

Question 10

41. Explain the psychological approach to personality.

C) I. Internal locus of control.

Answer 10

Belief that an individual can control his/her actions and results.

Question 11

41. Explain the psychological approach to personality.

C) ii. External locus of control

Answer 11

Belief that circumstances are beyond the control of the individual.

Question 12

41. Explain the psychological approach to personality.

D) Self-Efficiency:

Answer 12

An individual’s belief about their ability to perform a specific task.

Question 13

42. Summarize the psychodynamic theory of personality.

A) psychodynamic:

Answer 13

General term for psychological theories as emphasize the relationship between the conscious and unconscious, and the interaction among the various drives/forces with in a person.

Question 14

42. Summarize the psychodynamic theory of personality.

B) influences

Answer 14

It also specifies the peoples personalities are influenced by the defence mechanisms that they used to keep unacceptable motives and thoughts/sex/aggression from their conscious awareness.

Question 15

42. Summarize the psychodynamic theory of personality.

C) types of defenses

Answer 15

Immature he defense: distorts reality the most and leads to the most ineffective behaviors for example projection, displacement.
Intermediate offenses involve less distortion of reality and leads to somewhat more effective behaviors, for example repression.
Mature defense involves the least reality distortion and is associated with the most adaptive coping mechanisms for example: humour.

Question 16

43. Summarize heuristic approach and the study of personality’s contributions to Maslaw and Rogers.
    A) Maslaw.

Answer 16

Maslaw believes that a person’s behavior stems from a motivation to reach his/her potential. However he thought people must first satisfy their lower level needs before focusing on higher levels.