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Exam 2: Personality of Psychology Questions and Answers 100% Pass Discuss Horney's concepts of basic hostility and basic anxiety. - Hostility is created when parents don't satisfy children's needs for safety and satisfaction, anxiety is created when they have hostility but repress it so they don't feel bad. All children need feelings of safety and security, but these can be gained only by love from parents. Unfortunately, parents often neglect, dominate, reject, or overindulg...

Personality Psych: Exam 1 (Ch.1-4) Questions and Answers 100% Pass psychological triad - how people feel, think, and behave personality - an individual's characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling basic approach (to personality) - a theoretical view of personality that focuses on some phenomena and ignores others. The basic approaches are trait, biological, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, learning, and cognitive (the last two being closely related) trait approach - an ...

Personality Psychology Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Personality - a set of *psychological traits and mechanisms* within the individual organized and *relatively enduring* and that influence his or her *interactions* with and *adaptations* to the *intrapsychic, physical, and social* environments Psychological traits - characteristics that describe way sin which people are different from each other Psychological mechanisms - processes of personality Murray's 3 Levels of Perso...

Personality Psychology Rutgers Exam 1 Questions and Answers 100% Pass What is personality psychology? - Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals What is the basic evidence for the notion that personality is within the individual? - because traits are: -Relatively enduring -Consistent across time -Consistent across situations What is the person-situation debate? - the controversy concerning whether the person or the si...

Personality Psychology Exam 4 Questions and Answers 100% Pass The self and the tendency toward actualizaton - *Basic Human motivation to actualize maintain and enhance the self *Process involves difficult growth. Organismic Valuing Process - Process of judging based on values for actualization growth growth. Phenomenology - *any reliable reliability is subjective experience inner perception of reality. *Our experiences become the only basis for our judgement and behaviors. Positive reg...

Personality Psychology Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Jung proposed eight psychological types, based on the interactions of the - two psychological attitudes and four psychological functions. According to Jung, a(n) _____ is a core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in one's personal conscious organized around a common theme. - Complex According to Jung's belief, which of the following is responsible for the formation of complexes in the personal ...

Practice Exam - Differential and personality psychology Questions and Answers 100% Pass Which of the following is clearly a key concept in differential psychology? - individual differences Which of the following personality traits is often associated with high levels of creativity? - openness to experience What is the primary focus of personality psychology? - understanding individual differences in behavior and traits Which theory suggests that personality is influenced by the interact...

Personality Psych Exam 1 ch 1-4 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Personality psychology - the scientific study of the psychological forces that make people uniquely themselves, studies how people think, feel, and behanve Perspectives for studying personality (Eight) - unconscious, ego, cognitive, biological, conditioning, traits, spiritual, person-situation ineraction Barnum effect - The tendency to consider a personal description accurate if it is stated in very general terms. Ego forc...

Exam 3 Personality Psychology: Chapter 14 Personality Processes Questions and Answers 100% Pass Learning-Based Approaches: Two Simple Ideas - •Stimuli that occur close together in time will come to elicit the same response. •Behaviors followed by pleasant outcomes tend to be repeated; behaviors followed by unpleasant outcomes tend to be dropped. *Stimuli that occur close together in time will come to elicit the same response; for example, air puffs and a bell ringing will both elicit...