What does personality consist of?
Characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, behavior, and their psychological mechanisms.
What does personality psychology study?
Whole, functioning individuals in their daily environments.
Which three components form the psychological triad?
Thought, emotion, and behavior.
What does thought concern in psychology?
How people think.
What does emotion concern in psychology?
What people feel.
What does behavior concern in psychology?
How people behave.
Are inconsistencies between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors common?
Yes, they are common in human psychology.
Why is personality psychology difficult when understanding a person entirely?
Because trying to understand everything about a person at once is complex.
How should researchers approach personality psychology to manage its difficulty?
They should search for more specific patterns.
How does personality psychology make its mission more feasible?
By limiting observations, patterns, and ways of thinking about those patterns.
What does personality psychology seek to identify?
Specific patterns in personality.
Does personality psychology aim to explain every aspect of a person simultaneously?
No, it does not aim to explain every aspect simultaneously.
How does personality psychology help in relationships and business?
It helps understand relationships and supports industrial-organizational psychology.
What role does personality psychology play in business hiring?
It helps select appropriate persons for particular job positions.
How does personality psychology relate to clinical psychology?
It provides a foundation for clinical psychology.
What does personality psychology contribute to psychological health?
It contributes to understanding psychological health.
How can personality psychology affect understanding physical health?
It contributes to understanding physical health.
What can personality psychology predict about illness and longevity?
It can predict illness and longevity.
What is an approach in personality theory?
A theoretical view focusing on some phenomena and ignoring others.
What does the trait approach study in personality?
How individual differences are conceptualized, measured, and followed over time.
What does the biological approach examine in personality?
How brain anatomy, physiology, evolution, and genetics influence behavior and personality.
What does the psychoanalytic approach focus on?
The unconscious mind and internal mental conflict resolution.
What does the phenomenological approach study?
People’s conscious experience of the world and their sense-making.
What unique human attributes does the humanistic approach emphasize?
Growth, self-actualization, and personal fulfillment from conscious awareness.
What does the cross-cultural approach examine?
How different cultures influence people’s experience of reality and the world.
Which authors published the cross-cultural approach in 2019?
Neubauer et al., 2019.
What does the learning approach explain about behavior changes?
It explains how rewards, punishments, and life experiences lead to behavior changes.
What does classic behaviorism focus on?
It focuses on how overt behavior is shaped by conditioning.
What question does classic behaviorism ask about behavior?
It asks how reinforcements influence behavior.
What does social learning explain about learned behavior?
It explains how observation determines learned behavior.
What factors does social learning say shape behavior?
Social and environmental factors shape behavior.
Why are personality approaches not mutually exclusive?
They address different questions and key concerns.
What have major advocates of basic personality approaches claimed?
Their approach explains everything worth explaining while ignoring others' concerns.
What is the One Big Theory in personality psychology?
A proposed theory to explain all personality phenomena.
What is a central objection to relying on One Big Theory?
It likely cannot explain everything because it accounts for certain things only.
What does Funder’s First Law state about strengths and weaknesses?
Great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and often the opposite is true.
What is an advantage of personality psychology’s broad mandate?
It accounts for whole persons and real-life concerns.
What risk arises from personality psychology’s broad mandate in the wrong hands?
It can produce overly broad or unfocused research.
How can a president’s shiftiness be a strength?
It enables flexible responses to changing circumstances.
What positive traits have presidents high in narcissism shown?
They have been good at public persuasiveness, crisis management, getting votes, and passing legislation.
What negative outcomes are associated with presidents high in narcissism?
They have been more likely accused of unethical conduct and impeached.
In what ways do people differ according to unit 29?
They differ in preferences, attractions, desired occupations, and life goals.
Test your knowledge with 22 questions on The Study of Personality.
1. Which pairing correctly distinguishes the three domains of the psychological triad?
2. Which topic would be the central concern of the psychoanalytic approach?
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