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Natural selection correct answers Process by which certain adaptive individual characteristics emerge over generations. Example: In a dangerous environment full of predators, those individuals who are large or tough or fast or smart or able to organize defenses are most likely to survive Ges...

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PSYC 334 Exam 2 CH 5-8 || with 100% Verified Solutions.
Natural selection correct answers Process by which certain adaptive individual characteristics
emerge over generations.

Example: In a dangerous environment full of predators, those individuals who are large or tough
or fast or smart or able to organize defenses are most likely to survive

Gestalt psychology correct answers Emphasizes the integrative and active nature of perception
and thought suggesting that the whole may be greater than the sum of its parts

Human beings seek meaning in their environments

We organize the sensations we receive into meaningful perceptions

Trait approach correct answers use of a limited set of adjectives or adjective dimensions to
describe and scale individuals

Character descriptions

Partial reinforcement correct answers A reward that occurs after some, but not all, occurrences of
behavior

Evolutionary Personality Theory correct answers Modern application of Darwin's ideas to
individual differences in personality

Focused on the function of a characteristic in survival

Classical conditioning correct answers Concept that after the repeated pairing of an
unconditioned stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response with a neutral stimulus,

The previously neutral stimulus can come to elicit the same response as the unconditioned
stimulus.

Can be used to explain emotional aspects of personality: neurotic behavior, phobias, superstitious
behavior, etc.

Field theory correct answers Kurt Lewin

Suggests behavior is determined by complex interactions among a person's internal
psychological structure, the forces of the external environment, and the structural relationships
between the person and the environment

Myers-Briggs type indicator correct answers Widely used instrument that attempts to measure
introversion and extroversion and several other subclassifications as defined by Carl Jung

, Sensation-intuition scale correct answers Subclassification of the Myers-Briggs type indicator
that reflects whether a person is more prone to realism or imagination

Temperament correct answers Stable individual differences in emotional reactivity.

Longitudinal studies suggest that characteristics tend to remain stable over time as children
mature.

Life space correct answers All internal and external forces that act on an individual, and their
relationships with one another (family, religion, work, etc.)

Generalization correct answers Conditioned responses can occur in response to stimuli that is
similar to the conditioned stimulus

BIS system correct answers Behavioral Inhibition system

Response to novel situations and also to things that are punishing

Strong BIS system you are prone to anxiety, always alert and worrying that something bad is
going to happen

Extinction correct answers When the pairing of the conditioned and unconditioned stimulus stop

Gradual decrease in the response to the conditioned stimulus

Cognitive style correct answers An individual's distinct/enduring way of dealing with everyday
tasks of perception and problem solving

Thinking-feeling scale correct answers Subclassification of the Myers-Briggs type indicator the
reflects whether a person is logical and objective or personal and subjective

Judgment-perception scale correct answers Subclassification of the Myers-Briggs type indicator
that reflects whether a person is oriented toward evaluating or perceiving things

Learning style correct answers Characteristic way in which an individual approaches a task or
skill to be learned

Discrimination correct answers Learning to recognize the difference between different stimuli

Responding only to the conditioned stimulus and not to similar stimuli

BAS system correct answers Behavioral activation system

Regulates response to rewards/how we learn to enjoy rewarding activities

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