Branch of Psychology
Perspectives
5 Personality Traits
Research
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100
Branch of psychology concerned with how individual's thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by others
What is Social Psychology
100
Humans are free rational beings with the potential for growth.
What is the Humanist Perspective
100
______ is associated with curiosity, flexibility, imaginativeness...
What is Openness to Experience
100
a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many human characteristics are dispersed in the population
What is Normal Distribution
100
The group that an individual belongs to and identifies with
What is an Ingroup
200
Looks at human development across a lifespan
What is Developmental Psychology
200
An organism's functioning can be explained in terms of bodily structures
What is the Biological Perspective
200
________ tend to be sympathetic, trusting, cooperative....
What is Agreeableness
200
a numerical index of the degree of relationship that exists between two variables
What is a Correlation coefficient
200
Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group
What is a Stereotype
300
Is interested in understanding individuals' consistency in beahvior
What is Personality Psychology
300
Unconscious motives and experiences in early childhood govern personality disorders
What is the Psychoanalytic Perspective
300
_______is characterized as outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, assertive...
What is Extraversion
300
observing someone in their own environment without disturbing them
What is a Naturalist Observation
300
_________ ascribe the causes of behavior to personal dispositions, traits and abilities
What are Internal Attributions
400
Studies how people learn and the best way to teach them
What is Educational Psychology
400
Only observable events (stimulus-response relations) can be studied scientifically
What is the Behavioral Perspective
400
______tend to be diligent, disciplined, well-organized, punctual...
What is Conscientiousness
400
______ is a condition or event that an experimenter varies in order to see its impact on the dependent variable
What is an Independent Variable
400
____________ ascribe the causes of behavior to situational demands and environmental constraints
What are External Attributes
500
Focuses on higher mental processes like thinking and problem solving.
What is Cognitive Psychology
500
Human behavior cannot be fully understood without examining how humans acquire, store and process information
What is the Cognitive Perspective
500
_______ tend to be anxious, hostile, insecure, vulnerable...
What is Nueroticism
500
A tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables
What is a Hypothesis
500
Inferences people draw about the causes of events, others' behaviors, and their own behavior
What are attributions
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