Psychology Questions
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what happened on the first day of high school?I can't exactly remember what happened, but I just knew that my school was one of the best, most intricate, and hardest high schools in the city to accept students. I completely understood that I should try my best.
s'intéresse à la mesure, l'évaluation et la prédiction des activités du sujet.
Considère qu'il est un peu artificiel et caricatural d'opposer recherche qualitative et recherche quantitative.
Vise plus à comprendre les phénomènes complexes qu'à les expliquer.
S'intéresse à l'analyse de cas concrets dans leur temporalité et leur particularité singulière.
focus on how children learn about gender and how they occupy gender identity. internalizing info about gender and environmental reinforces of gender-related behavior are key aspects to this approach
-people can described by how they behave-Allport believed that to understand healthy people, focus must be on their lives in present, not childhood experiences -believed study of personality should focus on healthy, well adjusted individuals - defining personality, believed that it should stress uniqueness of all individuals + capacity to adapt to environment -lexical approach: if a trait was important to individuals life, represented in natural language individuals use to talk about each other
is an enduring personality characteristic that tend to lead to certain behaviors
intense fear of in a boy of being mutilated by his father
-meaningful personality change continues throughout life -changes in personality traits across adulthood occur in a direction suggesting that people become more socially mature w timeex: phineas gage iron rod injury to the brain produced change in personality
-studying an individual according to his/her traits allows us to know a person better, traits individuals have influence health, thinking, career choices, relations w others (trait perspective is dominate on personality psychology )-critics argue that trait approach is missing importance of situation in personality and behavior
involves seeing in others the impulses a person fears in him, or herself
1. neuroticism: feeling negative emotion more often than positive emotion 2. extraversion: more likely to engage in social activities 3. openness: related to higher IQ's, liberal values, art and culture, creative pursuits 4. agreeableness: related to generosity, negatively related to lying about oneself 5. conscientiousness: is related to healthy behaviors and longevity, performance in work, school, friendships, etc
one that presents individuals w an ambiguous stimulus and then asks them to describe it or tell a story about it- individuals projecting their meaning onto stimulus (ex: inkblot test & TAT)
state that a personality consists of broad and enduring dispositions that tend to lead to characteristic responses
directly asks individuals wether specific items describe their personality trait (ex: MMPI & NEOPI)
are strategies used to resolve conflicts among the demands for realty, the wishes of the id, and the constraints of the superego. reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
intense desire for a boy to replace his father and joy affections of his mother (phallic stage)
-gender is learned through rewards and punishments, observational learning and modeling -children may also be rewarded for engaging in gender (gender conforming) behavior and punished for behavior that dent fit w sex (gender-nonconforming behavior)-peer play is important in gender development (after age 6 especially)-children develop (gender schemas) mental framework for understand what is considered appropriate behavior for families and males in culture -social and cultural factors have strong influence on development of gender identity
occurs from 18 to 36 months of age. Childs pleasure is centered on anus and urethra and the eliminative functions that are associated with these areas