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PSYC 2701 Midterm 1

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What is the first core element of Personality? Personality is dynamic
What is the second core element of Personality? Personality is organized
What is the third core element of Personality? Personality is made of internal causes
What is the anagram for the elements of personality? DOM
What is the first reason we use the word personality? Personality conveys consistency
What is the second reason we use the word personality? Personality conveys internal causes
What is the third reason we use the word personality? Personality conveys uniqueness
What is the anagram for the reasons we use the word personality? CIU
What is the first fundamental question in personality psychology? How can personality be described?
What is the second fundamental question in personality psychology? How can we understand the dynamics of personality?
What is the third fundamental question in personality psychology? What can be said about personality development?
What is the first main term we use to describe personality? Personality types
What is the second main term we use to describe personality? Personality traits
What is the third main term we use to describe personality? Personality factors
What are personality types? Are broad categories to group people with similar characteristics.
What are personality traits? Are individual characteristics such as behavior, thought, and emotions that describe someone.
What are personality factors? Are the underlying groups of personality patterns.
What is a psychological trait? Are characteristics that describe how people are different from each other
What is the first major question about psychological traits? How many traits are there?
What is the second major question about psychological traits? How are the traits organized?
What is the third major question about psychological traits? What are the origins of the traits?
What is the fourth major question about psychological traits? What are the correlations and consequences of the traits?
What is a psychological mechanism? Are characteristics that describe processes of personality
What are the three cornerstones of psychological mechanisms? Inputs, decision rules, and outputs
What is the first level of personality analysis? Human nature, which consist of the traits and mechanisms that are typical of everyone
What is the second level of personality analysis? Individual and group differences, which are the variations of typical traits and mechanisms
What is the third level of personality analysis? Individual uniqueness, which is how one expresses themself
What is nomothetic research? Is using statistics and comparing individuals or groups to learn about universal human characteristics
What is ideographic research? Studies a single person to learn general principles that happen throughout one's life
What is the "gap" in personality psychology? Is the difference of analyses between general human nature and individual or group differences
What do grand theories of personality analyze? Human nature overall
What does contemporary research of personality analyze? Individual and group differences
What are the six domains of knowledge about human nature? Dispositional, biological, intrapsychic, cognitive-experimental, social and cultural, and adjustment.
What is the dispositional domain? Is focused on the nature of individual dispositions and how they develop.
What is the lexical approach of trait theory? Is that all important individual differences have become encoded within natural language.
What is the statistical approach of trait theory? Uses statistics to group traits into categories to identify major dimensions of personality.
What is the theoretical approach of trait theory? Creates theories to determine important variables of personality.
How did Gordon Allport view traits? He viewed traits on a continuum from low to high.
How did Raymond Cattell view traits? He viewed traits through factor analysis to create an empirical taxonomy of personality.
How did Eysenck view traits? He viewed traits in three major groups, introversion - extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism.
How did Paul Costa and Robert McCrae view traits? He viewed traits in five groups, OCEAN.
What is the first criteria of a good theory? Comprehensiveness, when a theory explains most known facts.
What is the second criteria of a good theory? Heuristic Value, when a theory guides researchers to new discoveries
What is the third criteria of a good theory? Testability, when a theory makes predictions that can be tested
What is the fourth criteria of a good theory? Parsimony, when a theory contains few assumptions
What is the fifth criteria of a good theory? Compatibility, when a theory is consistent with scientific knowledge.
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