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Personality - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔*consistent behavior
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patterns* and intrapersonal processes originating within the
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individual
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Goal of Personality Psychology - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔explain the whole person in his/her daily
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environment
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kinds of questions that personality psychology seeks to answer -
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How is the focus of personality psychology different than other
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fields? - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔clinical psych: both attempt
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to understand the whole person
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-normal vs. extreme patterns of personality
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emphasizes individual differences // //




-other areas treat all people as if they were the same
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,basic approaches to personality - CORRECT
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ANSWERS(S)✔✔complements>competitors
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not One Big Theory
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-it's difficult to do everything well
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Trait approach - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔people lie on a
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continuum of personality characteristics
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aggression: focuses on individual differences and the stability of
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aggressive behavior
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-aggressive children are more likely to become aggressive adults
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depression: focuses on identifying depression-prone individuals
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-person's general emotional level at present can indicate that
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person's emotions in the future
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Biological approach - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔understand the
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mind in terms of the body
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aggression: genetic predisposition towards aggression
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-evolutionary theory //

, depression: certain people inherit a genetic susceptibility to
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depression
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-levels of neurotransmitters
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Psychoanalytic approach - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔primary
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concern is with the unconscious mind and internal mental
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conflict
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aggression: people possess an unconscious desire to self-destruct
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-self-destructive impulses are expressed against others in the
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form of aggression
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depression: is a result of holding unconscious feelings of anger
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and hostility
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Phenomenological approach - CORRECT ANSWERS(S)✔✔focus on // // // // //



*conscious* experience of the world and *free will*
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aggression: people are basically good, aggression arises when
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something interferes with basic needs
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depression: people frequently suffering from depression are those
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who have low self-worth/self-esteem
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