This refers to a characteristic of a person that makes a person unique, with a unique style of adapting to stimuli in the world.
What is a trait?
100
A recently evolving psychological perspective that applies the evolutionary principles of natural selection to understanding human psychology, including personality
What is evolutionary psychology?
100
Personality is formed through interaction with the:
What is the environment?
100
He proposed that traits describe, but do not explain personality.
Who is Mischel?
100
The Bobo Doll experiment suggests that children can learn ____________.
What is aggression?
200
These traits dominate the personality across time and situations. Very few people develop this type of trait and if they do, it tends to be late in life.
What are cardinal traits?
200
Sexual jealousy and sexual attraction based on physical appearance are examples of:
What are evolved psychological mechanisms?
200
In classical conditioning, conditioned responses can occur in response to stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus. This refers to:
What is generalization?
200
True or False. People say they ARE consistent, but research findings indicate that they are NOT.
What is True?
200
The Stanford Prison Study shows how behavior can change based upon?
What is the situation/situational roles?
300
This refers to Allport's view that religion is seen as a means to a person’s other goals
What is extrinsic religious orientation?
300
____________ refers to the inherited profile of an individual while ____________ refers to observable characteristics.
What is genotype; phenotype?
300
This process refers to gradually extinguishing a phobia by causing the feared stimulus to become dissociated from the fear response.
What is systematic desensitization?
300
This type of expectancy refers to what will happen next or how events will develop in the world.
What are stimulus-outcome expectancies?
300
This treatment was featured in the clip on Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)?
400
What are the Five Traits of the Big Five?
What is Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (OCEAN)?
400
According to Eysenck, traits are derived from these three underlying biological systems:
What is psychoticism, extroversion, and neuroticism?
400
I am interested in decreasing bad behavior in my pet. If I use principles of operant conditioning, I can achieve this by performing a positive or negative?
What is punishment?
400
True or False. Delay of gratification is easy when the reward is present.
What is False?
400
Name one risk factor for Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is sexual or physical abuse in childhood, genetic predisposition to anxiety or MH conditions, childhood neglect, abandonment etc.
500
Cattell's dynamic traits...both innate and learned.
What are ergs and metaergs?
500
In Cloninger's Tridimensional Model, novelty seeking is associated with low levels of which neurotransmitter?
What is dopamine?
500
According to Staats, personality consists of three basic behavioral repertoires. What are these repertoires?
What are language-cognitive, emotional-motivational, and sensory-motor?
500
Based on research pertaining to the trait vs. situation debate, the average relationship between self-report personality measures and behavior is:
What is .30 (personality coefficient)?
500
True or False. In the case study, Amanda had an IQ of 130.