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What is the trait approach?
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How people's personalities differ (comparing averages)
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What is research?
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A way of knowing using a systematic approach.
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What are the steps of the research loop?
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Define problem/interests-->Library research-->Generate hypotheses-->Research design-->Data collection-->Data analysis-->Findings/conclusions-->Develop/Update theory
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What are the criteria of a good theory?
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Comprehensiveness, parsimony & heuristic value, Testable predict, verifiable, applied value.
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What is personality?
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An individual's characteristic patterns of emotions, behaviors and thoughts and their underlying psychological processes.
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What is the difference between nomothetic and idiographic?
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Nomothetic compares the individual to others; Idiographic focuses on the individual without making comparisons
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What are the two sources of influence on the ABCs?
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Situational variables and personality variables
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What are metatheories?
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Orienting assumptions that attempt to describe human nature
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What is the biological approach?
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Focuses on evolution, genetics, etc. as the cause of behavior.
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What is the psychoanalytic approach?
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Competition and conflict within the individual cause behavior.
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What is the phenomonological approach?
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Consists of the humanistic, which focuses on individual experiences, and cross-cultural, which focuses on how cultural expectations affect behavior
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What are the learning and cognitive approaches?
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Learning: behavior changes via experience. Cognitive: how thinking processes are similar across individuals.
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What is Funder's first law?
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Something that is good for one thing doesn't work as well for something else; strengths are usually weaknesses
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What are the three elements of empiricism?
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Systematic, objective, and determinism
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What is Funder's second law?
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There are no perfect clues, everything is ambiguous.
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