PSY 255 QUIZ Quiz 1 Chapters 1-6 complete questions and answers 2022
Chapter 1: What Is Personality? Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
Chapter 2: Personality Research Methods
Chapter 3: The Psychoanalytic Approach: Freudia...
PSY 255 QUIZ Quiz 1 Chapters 1-6
complete questions and answers 2022
Chapter 1: What Is Personality? Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic
patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
Chapter 2: Personality Research Methods
Chapter 3: The Psychoanalytic Approach: Freudian Theory, Application, and Assessment
Chapter 4: The Freudian Approach: Relevant Research
Chapter 5: The Psychoanalytic Approach: Neo-Freudian Theory, Application, and
Assessment Chapter 6: The Neo-Freudian Theories: Relevant Research
• Define Structuralism. What is it? How is it applied to therapy?
Structuralism looked to examine the adult mind in terms of analyzing the basic
elements of thoughts and sensations, and afterward to discover the manner by
which these segments fit together in complex structures. To get to the root of the
problem and connect the dots.
• Match each theorist with their school o Psychodynamic-Freud (for example) n 1885,
Freud went to Paris as a student of the neurologist Jean Charcot.
On his return to Vienna the following year, Freud set up in private practice
• Who is Hugo Munsterberg what did he do and what is he known for?
who believed that psychology should be used to help solve real-world problems
within human behavior – Applied Psychology
His 1908 book On the Witness Stand detailed how psychological factors can
influence the outcome of a trial. In the book, he discussed problems with eyewitness
testimony, false confessions, and interrogations.
• What is personality and how do we study/research this?
Personality refers to individual differences in patterns of thinking, feeling and
behaving. The study of personality focuses on individual differences in behavior
• What approaches are there to personality when it comes to schools of thoughts?
Define
, Behaviorism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Experientialism
Social and Contextual
o Trait, Humanistic, Psychoanalytic, Behavioral
• Define and know differences in the following o Collectivist Culture o Individualistic
Culture o Male-Dominate Family o Non-traditional Family
• Know the difference and be able to define the following
o Independent Variable - manipulated or changed by researchers, not by
other variables in the experiment
o Dependent Variable - the variable that is being measured or tested in an
experiment
o Theory - A theory is a carefully thought-out explanation for observations of
the natural world that has been constructed using the scientific method
o Hypothesis. - A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a precise, testable
statement of what the researcher(s) predict will be the outcome of the study.
• Define and be familiar with the different types of research (i.e. case study)
• Aims and Hypotheses. The aim of the study is a statement of what the researcher
intents to investigate. ...
• Sampling. ...
• Variables. ...
• Experimental Design. ...
• Lab Experiment. ...
• Field Experiment. ...
• Natural Experiment. ...
• Case Study.
The Three Types of Psychology Research
• Causal or Experimental Research.
• Descriptive Research.
• Relational or Correlational Research.
• What is a correlation coefficient? What is the strong correlation between two
measures? The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient is a statistic that is
used to estimate the degree of linear relationship between
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