Personality and Psychology

What is a personality?

• The unique traits that make an individual think certain ways

• Individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

• A plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle(s) offered to explain a phenomena

• The skills you learn over time that you eventually use at work

What is a theory?

• The unique traits that make an individual think certain ways

• Individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

• A plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle(s) offered to explain a phenomena

• The skills you learn over time that you eventually use at work

Which of the following are personality theories we discussed? Check off all that apply.

• Trait Approach

• Humanistic Approach

• Sociocultural Approach

• Learning Approach

• Psychoanalytic Approach

A ________ is an aspect of one's personality that is reasonably stable.

The trait approach supports the idea that personality traits are fixed (meaning that they don't change) at a young age and account for consistent behavior in different situations

• True

• False

In the trait theory created by Hippocrates, how many "humors" did humans have?

• Three

• Two

• Five

• Four

Gordon Allport believed a person's behavior is a ______________________________they have.

Eysenck believed personality had two distinct dimensions: extraversion and _____________.

Raymond Cattell believed there were 12 basic source traits.

• True

• False

Freud's psychoanalytic theory had two ideas; one was the Inner Conflict Approach (the iceberg idea) and the Id, Ego, and Superego.

• True

• False