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In McAdams personality triad he states we should focus on three aspects of personality. Which of the following is NOT a member of these categories?
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In McAdams collaborative personality theory, he states we should focus on the dispositional traits of people. This means focusing on dimensions of personality, specifically the big five.
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Although McAdams believes that it is important to discover personality traits when beginning to understanding an individual , he also believes it has its limitations. What is his criticism of personality traits?
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They don't tell us about the individual
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Personality tests can be cheated and therefore false positive produced
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They are too linear and we need more of a scale of traits
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He didn't believe there was a problem with traits.
Pregunta 4
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McAdams described Characteristic Adaptations as, personal goals, coping strategies, values, domain-specific skills and relationship styles. What theories does this idea integrate?
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Psychoanalytic
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social-learning
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humanistic
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evolutionary
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personal construct
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Positive psychology
Pregunta 5
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The aim of McAdams personality triad is to try and integrate a fragmented psychological environment. A consequence of this is that he has integrated idiographic and nomothetic approaches, allowing for a more holistic construction of an individuals personality.
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Characteristic adaptations is aimed at understanding...
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A persons individual beliefs, motivations and defences
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How a person adapts to negative situations
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Dysfunctional adaptation styles
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A persons formed biases as a result of life experience
Pregunta 7
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The idea of Dispositional Traits is [blank_start]nomothetic[blank_end], while Characteristic Adaptations is [blank_start]idiographic[blank_end] and narrative identity is [blank_start]idiographic[blank_end]
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idiographic
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nomothetic
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nomothetic
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Idiographic
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idiographic
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nomothetic
Pregunta 8
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One could say there is stability in traits, but constant change in identity.
Pregunta 9
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According to McAdams, why is our personal story so important to our identity?
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Through our story we can define ourselves and create our sense of identity
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Our story is full of confidence boosts and without it we lose self-esteem
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Through our story we understand the world and how others behave in it
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Our story can be manipulated to create another defence mechanism to protect us from negative environments
Pregunta 10
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The biggest problem with modern personality theories, is that they are all based on WEIRD people.
Pregunta 11
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Individualist cultures see the individual as separate from the social. In contrast collectivist cultures see the individual as part of the social network, they are just a node within a social network. As most of the world is collectivist, this presents a problem to personality theories because...
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Our personality theories are derived from men whose research is based on individualistic cultures
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our personality theories focus on individuals not social environments
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this potentially means we have to remove all personality theories and only focus on social psychology
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We need more computational models to account for the nodes within a social network.
Pregunta 12
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Bandura stated that cultures are either individualistic or collectivist. He believed that this is a static trait that is very hard to change.
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[blank_start]Reliability[blank_end] refers to consistency across tests, while [blank_start]Validity[blank_end] refers to a tests ability to test what it is meant to.
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Reliability
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Validity
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Validity
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Reliability
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A reliable test needs
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Consistency throughout itself (internal consistency)
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same results found by another (inter-rater reliability)
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Consistency over testing occasions (test-retest reliability)
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Consistency in different environments (environmental reliability)
Pregunta 15
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Cronbach's alpha is...
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A measure of internal consistency and how closely related certain items are.
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A measure of validity (.5 and above meaning valid)
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A masterpiece of classical music
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A unit of measurement involved in determining personality traits
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In regards to validity, two tests that are similar should [blank_start]converge[blank_end], while two tests that are dissimilar should [blank_start]diverge[blank_end]. [blank_start]Divergent[blank_end] tests should also have discriminant validity.
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converge
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diverge
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diverge
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converge
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Divergent
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Convergent
Pregunta 17
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It could be said that McAdams personality triad consists of; "who am i?", "what are my basic tendencies?", "What do i want and value?"
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Personality traits are assessed using which method?
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Self-report
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Interview
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Behavioural observation
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The results found from personality tests are qualitative
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What is a positive of the forced choice format in questionnaires?
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To get around the problems of social desirability and acquiescence
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lets people be forced into one category or another
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to get around the problem of cheating on tests
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lets the therapist gather qualitative data
Pregunta 21
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result in ordinal data and can be used in non-parametric tests
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result in nominal data and can be used in non-parametric tests
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result in ordinal data and can be used in parametric tests
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result in nominal data and can be used in parametric tests
Pregunta 22
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Dispositional traits are best measured using
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self-report measure
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likert scales
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close-ended questions
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forced choice responses
Pregunta 23
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what are the techniques used to develop an understanding of characteristics adaptations?
Pregunta 24
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Personality inventories are
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Self-report questionnaires aimed at discovering personality traits
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Interview techniques available to the therapist to discover an individuals personality traits.
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The classing system of an individuals personality
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our personality assessment results
Pregunta 25
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What is the use of implicit association tests?
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They try to get away from self-report measures
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They are extremely valid
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they assess our conscious beliefs and opinions
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they help to discover our motivations in life
Pregunta 26
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Identity as life story is a [blank_start]humanistic[blank_end] approach to personality that is [blank_start]idiographic[blank_end] and focuses on collecting [blank_start]qualitative[blank_end] data. The main technique used is [blank_start]interviews[blank_end].
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humanistic
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individualistic
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positive psychology
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evolutionary
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idiographic
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nomographic
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qualitative
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quantitative
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interviews
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questionnaires
Pregunta 27
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If a therapists was interviewing a person about their life story and had a set of questions prepared, but asked a follow up question off script, what style of interviewing would they be using?
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Structured
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Semi-structured
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unstructured
Pregunta 28
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Interviews are a useful tool in personality assessment as they allow for multiple sources of information, the therapist can see non-verbal signs, they are flexible and qualitative data can be gained. Although, interviews still have their disadvantages which include...