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Personality correct answers a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is unique to each individual Idiographic approach correct answers creating detailed descriptions of a specific person's unique personality characteristics Nomothetic approach correct answers examine pe...

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Psychology 1200 Final exam || Questions and 100% Verified
Answers.
Personality correct answers a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is
unique to each individual

Idiographic approach correct answers creating detailed descriptions of a specific person's unique
personality characteristics

Nomothetic approach correct answers examine personality in large groups of people, with the
aim of making generalizations about personality structure

Personality trait correct answers describes a person's habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and
behaving

Factor Analysis correct answers is used to group items that people respond to similarly

Five Factor Model correct answers a trait based theory of personality based on the finding that
personality can be described using five major dimensions

HEXACO model of personality correct answers a six factor theory that generally replicates the
five factors of the FFM and adds on additional factor, Honesty-Humility

Dark Triad correct answers refers to three traits, machiavellianism, psychotherapy and
narcissism, that describe a person who is socially destructive, aggressive, dishonest and likely to
comment harm in general

Right-wing authoritarianism correct answers is a highly problematic set of personality
characteristics that involve obeying orders, support aggression against those who dissent or differ
from the established social order and believing strongly in maintaining the existing social order

State correct answers is a temporary physical or psychological engagement that influences
behavior

Reciprocal determinism correct answers which posits that behavior, internal (personal) factors,
and external (situational) factors interact to determine one another and that our personalities are
based on interactions among these three aspects

Humorism correct answers which explained both physical illnesses and disorders of personality
as resulting from imbalances in key fluids in the body (blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile)

Phrenology correct answers the theory that personality characteristics could be assessed by
carefully measuring the outer skull

, Arousal theory of extraversion correct answers arguing that extraversion is determined by
people's threshold for arousal

Ascending reticular activating system correct answers plays a central role in controlling this
arousal response

Behavioral activation system (BAS) correct answers is a "GO" system arousing the person to
action in the pursuit of desired goals

Behavioral inhibition system (BIS) correct answers is more of a "danger" system, motivating the
person to action in order to avoid punishments or other negative outcomes

Extraversion correct answers have a larger medial orbitofrontal cortex and generally have less
activation in the amygdala

Neuroticism correct answers is associated with the size of the brain areas, such as a smaller
dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a smaller hippocampus and a larger mid-cingulate gyrus

Agreeableness correct answers people high in this trait show less brain volume in an area called
the left superior temporal sulcus, which is activated when is interpreting another person's actions
or intentions

Conscientiousness correct answers people high in this trait have larger brain volume in the
middle frontal gyrus in the left prefrontal cortex, which is involved in carrying out actions that
you have planned

Openness to experience correct answers people high in this trait have been shown to have greater
activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex which is involved in creativity and intelligence as
well as other brain systems involved in the integration of the self and the environment

Conscious mind correct answers is your current awareness, containing everything you are aware
of right now

Unconscious mind correct answers is a much more vast and powerful but inaccessible part of
your consciousness, operating without you conscious endorsement or will to influence and guide
your behaviors

Superego correct answers is comprised of our values and moral standards

Ego correct answers the decision maker, frequently under tension, trying to reconcile the
opposing urges of the id and superego

Defence mechanisms correct answers unconscious strategies the ego uses to reduce or avoid
anxiety

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