PSY 340 Personality Midterm All Possible Questions and Answers 2025
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PSY 340 Personality
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PSY 340 Personality
What is a primary goal of the biological approach to personality? - ️️understanding
the heritability of behavior and personality
Jeff suspects that his roommate's sexist jokes may indicate that his roommate has
some hidden, unconscious hostility toward women or that he feels very insecure ar...
What is a primary goal of the biological approach to personality? - ✔️✔️understanding
the heritability of behavior and personality
Jeff suspects that his roommate's sexist jokes may indicate that his roommate has
some hidden, unconscious hostility toward women or that he feels very insecure around
women. Jeff's analysis suggests a ________ approach to personality. -
✔️✔️psychoanalytic
According to the text, personality's greatest strength, understanding the whole persons,
is also its greatest weakness. Which term describes this fundamental observation? -
✔️✔️Funder's First Law
__________ theories of personality apply the insights and methods derived from the
study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of personality. - ✔️✔️Cognitive
One critique of personality psychology is that it "pigeonholes" people. What does
"pigeonholing" someone mean? - ✔️✔️categorizing and labeling people
Personality psychologists who adhere to the __________ approach focus on identifying,
conceptualizing, and measuring the ways in which people differ psychologically from
one another. - ✔️✔️trait
Which of the following is NOT part of the psychological triad? - ✔️✔️psychological
health
Psychologists following the phenomenological approach __________. - ✔️✔️are
concerned with our conscious experience of the world and the consequences of having
free will
Personality is an individual's characteristic patterns of __________. - ✔️✔️behavior,
emotion, and thought
In observing human behavior, it is impossible to __________. - ✔️✔️understand
everything about a person all at once
Which subfield of psychology has the greatest overlap with personality psychology? -
✔️✔️clinical
, Is narcissism always a bad trait to have? - ✔️✔️No, narcissists are persuasive, but
they also act unethically
The purpose of a basic approach (or paradigm) is to __________. - ✔️✔️limit inquiry to
certain kinds of observations and patterns
Personality psychology and clinical psychology overlap most often when approaching
which topic? - ✔️✔️personality disorders
Which of the following is NOT one of the basic approaches to personality? -
✔️✔️assessment
Personality psychology emphasizes how people are __________, whereas subfields
such as cognitive and social psychology emphasize how people are __________. -
✔️✔️different from each other; similar to each other
Advocates of any particular basic approach to personality historically __________. -
✔️✔️claimed that their approach explains everything worth explaining
Which of the following is an expression of Funder's First Law? - ✔️✔️characteristics
that are strengths in one sense are weaknesses in other ways
What are two topics covered under the phenomenological approach? - ✔️✔️humanistic
and cross-cultural perspectives on personality
Personality psychologists adhering to the __________ approach focus on psychic
energy, the workings of the unconscious mind, and the nature and resolution of internal
mental conflict. - ✔️✔️psychoanalytic
Which of the following is one of the basic approaches to personality? -
✔️✔️psychoanalytic
Funder writes that there are good reasons why personality psychologists have distinct
theories versus One Big Theory. Which is NOT one of those reasons? - ✔️✔️One Big
Theory would undermine the smaller theories; a theory that explains everything would
probably not provide the best explanation for any one thing
Thoughts, feelings, and behavior - ✔️✔️psychological triad
A basic approach to personality - ✔️✔️paradigm
Labeling and categorizing people - ✔️✔️pigeonholing
A framework that can predict everything about human behavior - ✔️✔️One Big Theory
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