Personality of Psych 201 Quiz 1

Everybody has things about themselves that makes them different and similar to other people

Traits people share or do not share with other people

why people are different and similar from one another

yes

• someone who studies personality
• They find the characteristics you find in the human species

• 1. study introvert and extrovert
• 2. if you are born that way, through social learning
• 3. the level of introvert or extrovert

Gordon Allport

• 1. Idiographic 
• 2. Nomothetic

views that everyone is unique

• looking at the biography/autobiography of an individual
• no one will have the same

it cannot be employed scientifically because it is too detailed and preoccupied

• they believe that people should be put into groups, categories
• Not focused on the individual self

the scientific approach

conscientiousness

Integrity tests

• taking a test on your thoughts of certain situations
• based on integrity, honesty
• mostly given by jobs

the field of personality should viewed and studied as a scientific discipline

• response that has been programmed into the species biologically 
• stimulus triggering a response

• when people were born they were a tabula rasa=blank slate
• environment will define who you are

blank slate

John Locke

• they believe that heredity and the environment play a part in making someones personality 
• mostly social interaction

• 1. comprehensive
• 2. parisimonious 
• 3. Empirical translatability
• 4. empirical testability
• 5. empirical validity

a theory that explains everything that is relevant with respect to the phenomenon under study, all aspects of human behavior

the theory is simple

in science is that if two or more competing but equally powerful explanations are available for a phenomenon, the preferred explanation is the simplest one, least complex

means that one should be able to specify means by which to operationally define the constructs identified within the framework of the theory

one should be able to measure the concepts identified in the theory, so that others can be able to measure it 

be testable and measurable

the psychoanalytic theory

a theory should make specific predictions that can be evaluated by anyone who is trained in the discipline

means that a theory has been demonstrated to be correct

identical twins

fraternal twins

in shared both individuals are exposed to the same conditions as in same household. nonshared one being exposed to aggression by parents

agreement and consistency

disagreement not consistent

selective breeding

having a fear of people different from you (happens with eugenics)

first to suggest the lexical method

• classifying and categorizing traits of personality
• nomathetic approach