Scientific correct answers Goal of personality theorist; Observation should be this; tests and measures are objective
Systematic correct answers Goal of personality theorist; theory should be this; logical and coherent
Testable correct answers Goal of personality theorist; theory must be able...
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Scientific correct answers Goal of personality theorist; Observation should be this; tests and
measures are objective
Systematic correct answers Goal of personality theorist; theory should be this; logical and
coherent
Testable correct answers Goal of personality theorist; theory must be able to be tested by
objective scientific processes
Comprehensive correct answers Goal of personality theorist; theory should address all
psychological aspects that are significant to the person
Application correct answers Goal of personality theorist; pramatism-how theory is being used in
real world; theory to practice
Personality correct answers Qualities that contribute to enduring (consistent) and distinctive
patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving (or all aspects of a persons being)
Definition of personality correct answers These are all key to defining this: human universals,
individual differences, individual uniqueness
Structure correct answers Personality Theory Topic; stable building blocks of the theory; Trait-
Type-System
Process correct answers Personality Theory Topic; Psychological reactions that change
dynamically; motivational aspects of theory
Growth and Development correct answers Personality Theory Topic; how personality develops
over time; must be able to explain how we share certain pattens, but experience them differently
Psychopathology and Behavioural Change correct answers Personality Theory Topic; theory
must have practical benefit in real world; must be identifiable to what we see in the real world
Nomothetic Measure correct answers Type of measure used in theory; fixed method; exact same
measures are adminsitered-scores calculated in the same way
Idiographic correct answers Type of measure used in theory; flexible; various options;
unstructured methods; can tap into uniqueness of individual
Case Study and Clinical Research correct answers Research Strategy in personality theory;
studies one person in great detail; very idiographic-subjective to one person
, Personality Questionnaires and Correlational Research correct answers Research Strategy in
personality theory; investigates trends and differences b/w people as a whole; examines
relationship in variables in large population
Laboratory and Experimental Research correct answers Research Strategy in personality theory;
can control and effect under study; variables are manipulated through the random assignment of
persons to different conditions
Mechanism correct answers Freud believed in this; biological life could be explained by natural
science
Pleasure Principle correct answers Freud believed that individuals function according to this;
seek satisfying aggressive and sexual drives
Reality Principle correct answers Opposes pleasure principle; societal do's and don'ts that are
learned by the individual
Hysteria correct answers Patient Anna O of Freuds; people experiencing physical symptoms that
are caused by emotional problems rather than physical disease and disability; solely diagnosed in
women
Conscious correct answers Structure-Frued; flow of thoughts that we are aware of
Preconscious correct answers Structure-Frued; mental contents that we can easily become aware
of if we attend to them; ex: address, what you had for breakfast
Unconscious correct answers Structure-Frued; mental contents (thoughts, desires) that we are
unaware of; cannot become aware of these unless under special circumstances
Dreams correct answers These can expose contents of the unconscious; these are similar to the
unconscious
Motivated Unconscious correct answers 2 Respects of this: 1) mental contents in the unconscious
appear there for motivated reasons; 2) thoughts in unconscious effect conscious experience
ID correct answers Source of all drive energy; functions outside of conscious awareness;
operates according to the pleasure principle
Supergo correct answers Unconscious and conscious process; moral aspects of social behavior;
controls behavior in the id
Ego correct answers Conscious and unconscious processes; seeks to satisfy the id in accordance
with the superego; acts in accordance with reality principle
Psychoanalytic Unconscious correct answers Irrational, illogical nature of unconscious
functioning; contents of unconscious include aggressive and sexual thoughts
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