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quiz 1
psychology of personality
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| what are the three essential ingredients in the process of personality? | input, decision rules, and output |
| personality is ________ and relatively ________ | organized; enduring |
| what are the three levels of personality analysis? | human nature, individual and group differences, and individual uniqueness |
| what are the six domains of knowledge? | adjustment, dispositional, social and cultural, cognitive-experiential, biological, and intrapsychic |
| personality research is often formed by personality ________ | theories |
| the ____________ domain deals with the way in which individuals differ from one another | dispositional |
| the __________ domain assumes that humans are collections of biological systems | biological |
| the _____________ domain deals with mental mechanisms of personality | intrapsychic |
| the _________-___________ domain focuses on thought processes and subjective experience | cognitive-experiential |
| the ______ and ________ domain assumes that personality is affected by cultural and social context | social; cultural |
| the __________ domain says that personality plays key role in how we cope, adapt, and adjust to events in our daily lives | adjustment |
| comprehensiveness, heuristic value, testability, parsimony, and compatibility are the five standards for evaluating __________ ________ | personality theories? |
| what are the four sources of personality data? | self-report data, test data, observer data, and life-outcome data |
| ____-______ data is information provided by a person through a questionnaire or an interview | self-report |
| ____ data is information provided by standardized tests | test data |
| ________-______ data is information provided about someone else by another person | observer-report |
| ____-_______ data is information that can be gleaned from events, activities, and outcomes in a person’s life | life-outcome |