PSY 235 Chapter 1 – Flashcards
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The term temperament, as used in personality psychology, refers to
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A. An individual's characteristic emotional amd motivational nature
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Of the eight perspectives discussed in your text, which of the following is NOT true?
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D. Very few of the perspectives are still regarded as useful
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The Gestalt tradition emphasized the idea that
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A. "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
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Advances in the field of biological science have
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E. Helped researchers to think more clearly about what personality is
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Darwin's evolutionary theory influenced the development of the field of personality psychology through
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C. The idea that people are subject to the laws of nature, like other animals
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If we ask everyone in the class to describe the personalities of everyone else they know in the class, and then use these data to form a theory about the personality of college students, we are using
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D. Induction
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The roots of modern personality psychology can be traced to developments in the 19th century biological sciences based on the work of
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C. Darwin
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Personality psychology is that focused on the study of individual cases is termed
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E. Idiographic
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An early supporter of psychological testing (and where much testing is still conducted) was
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B. The US armed forces
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Margaret Mead's view on the role of culture in personality was influenced by her findings from several different cultures that
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D. In some cultures, both males and females had the characteristics that our culture identifies as "masculine or feminine"
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According to Allport, what is the method by which personality should be studied?
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B. Idiographic
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Which of the following statements is true of the unconscious
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D. Personality psychology struggles to understand how and to what extent the unconscious plays a role in behavior
