Gordon allport Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Trait - Correct Answer Dimension of personality used to categorize people according to the degree to which they manifest a particular characteristic. - Relatively stable over time - Stable across situations Research within the trait approach relies heavily on: - Correct Answer Correlational designs. Gordon Allport - Correct Answer -Identified two general strategies to use when investigating personality: 1. Nomothetic approach to identify common traits (Traits selected by researcher for ...

GRE practice exam 90 Questions with Verified Answers Which of the following situations involving two people, P and O, and an object X, will NOT be balanced according to Heider's balance theory? (a) P likes O, and they both like X (b) P likes O, and they both dislike X (c) P dislikes O, and they both dislike X (d) P dislikes O, P likes X, and O dislikes X (e) P dislikes O, P dislikes X, and O dislikes X - CORRECT ANSWER C According to inoculation theory, a person's belief can be inoc...

PSY 330 Quizzes Week 1 Quiz with Questions And Answers.Score for this quiz: 17 out of 20 Submitted Apr 9 at 6:21pm This attempt took 54 minutes. Question 1 1 / 1 pts Realism in personality theory refers to Correct! the position that the world of perception and cognition has a fixed and stable existence independent of the perceiver. the belief that there is no external reality apart from the perceiver. the position that goals, and the chances of meeting goals, should be realistic. the...

The Trait Approach - correct answer Study of Personality that is based on meaningful adjectives that describe human behavior. These adjectives are then represented as a dimension along which people vary. Ppl are then scaled along that trait dimension. Raymond Cattell - correct answer Took thousands of adjectives that describe behavior. Had a large number of people rated on those dimensions. fact...

Multiple Choice 1. In one of the first social psychological experiments ever conducted, researcher Norman Triplett examined the records of teams of cyclists. He found that cyclists who raced against each other ____ than those who raced alone (against the clock). a. were more aggressive after the race b. got into more accidents c. cycled more quickly d. enjoyed the race less ANSWER: c DIFFICULTY: Easy REFERENCES: A Brief History of Social Psychology LEARNING OBJECTIVES: SOCP.BAUM...

Who was Walter Mischel and when was he active? - correct answer 1960s-70s. Fully explain Michel's argument against the usefulness of personality traits to explain or account for behavior. - correct answer Behavior varies highly across situations. Hence, it makes no sense to think of behavior in terms of broad personality traits. Mischel examined the size of relationships between personality traits...

GRE psychology practice 159 Questions with Verified Answers Acetycholine - CORRECT ANSWER neurotransmitter associated with voluntary movement, sleep and wakefulness. Too little is associated with Alzheimer's Analysis of Variance/ANOVA - CORRECT ANSWER inferential statistical procedure used to compare 2 or more means to see if the difference is not chance (need p<.05 for statistical significance) Aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER impairment of ability to communicate either through oral or wri...

A view that personality is a coherent whole that is based on psychophysical systems yet is adaptive to the environment is most consistent with that of: Gordon Allport Psychologists would label a tendency to act in a certain way over time and various situations as a: disposition According to Gordon Allport, personality: is a dynamic system arising from biological processes Which of the following personality traits exist in most species? extraversion agreeableness neuroticism all of th...

PERSONALITY Gordon Allport said personality is "the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment" Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values HEREDITY factors determined at conception. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR the most widely used personality assessment in the world. Includes scales on introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeli...

PSY 362 Topic 3 DQ 1 Research on the relation between religion and prejudice is well summarized by Gordon Allport: "The role of religion is paradoxical. It makes prejudice and it unmakes prejudice." In your opinion, do you agree, and, if so, why might this be true? If you do not agree, explain your reasoning.