Personality psychology snap answers

Define personality

The enduring ways our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours influence how we interact with the world.

Is the nomothetic approach qualitative or quantitative?

Quantitative.

Is the idiographic approach qualitative or quantitative?

Qualitative.

Who coined the phrase “nature vs nurture”?

Francis Galton.

Who proposed the lexical hypothesis?

Francis Galton.

What are the three stages of Freud’s topographical model of thought?

Conscious, preconscious, unconscious

What are the three components of Freud’s structural model of personality?

ID, ego, superego

“Freud’s theories can be applied to all people internationally”. True or false?

False.

What shapes behaviour in the behaviourist model?

Conditioning.

What are the two types of conditioning in the behaviourist model?

Operant, classical.

Which of the two types of conditioning is based on action and consequence?

Operant.

Which of the two types of conditioning is based on passive association?

Classical.

What does the humanistic model introduce in the place of determinism?

Free will.

What does the humanistic model state humans strive towards?

Self-actualisation.

How many words did Gordon Allport find for the lexical hypothesis?

Approximately 4,500.

What did the humanistic model do for therapy?

Normalised therapy-seeking.

What is a criticism the psychodynamic theory and the humanistic theory both share?

They lack scientific support.

What does the psychoanalytic model assume?

That all humans have unconscious mental processes.

What are personality traits?