PSY 200 final exam with verified detailed solutions|| || || || || || ||
Unique and relatively enduring set of behaviors, feelings, thoughts, and motives that characterize
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an individual - correct answer✔✔personality
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Disposition to behave consistently in a particular way - correct answer✔✔trait || || || || || || || || || ||
The point at which a person moves from not having a particular response to having one - correct
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answer✔✔behavioral thresholds ||
bodily organs and systems that solve survival and reproductive problems - correct
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answer✔✔physical mechanisms ||
internal and specific cognitive, motivational, or personality systems that solve specific problems
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of survival and reproduction - correct answer✔✔psychological mechanisms
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strategies for solving reproductive and survival problems - correct answer✔✔personality traits
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viable alternative strategies for maximizing fitness - correct answer✔✔personality differences
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are set not only by our genes (nature) but also by our mothers' experiences (nurture) - correct
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answer✔✔temperament and stress || ||
events in the womb alter fetal development - correct answer✔✔Prenatal Programing
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Big 5 - correct answer✔✔Openness (imaginative, interested in new
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Conscientiousness (orderly, hardworking) || ||
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Extraversion (sociable, outgoing) || ||
Agreeableness (good-natured, trusting) || ||
Neuroticism (anxious, emotional) || ||
People from different cultural backgrounds exhibit traits of all of the following personality
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dimensions to varying extents - correct answer✔✔NEO- Personality Inventory || || || || || || || ||
contains all the drives, urges, or instincts that are outside awareness but nonetheless motivate
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most of our speech, thoughts, feelings, or actions - correct answer✔✔unconscious
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from birth, inherited components of
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personality: sex and aggression - correct answer✔✔Id: pleasure principle || || || || || || || ||
The only part of the mind that is in direct contact with the outside world - correct answer✔✔Ego:
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reality principal ||
Evaluates actions in terms of right & wrong - correct answer✔✔superego: moralistic principle
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Unconscious strategies the mind uses to protect itself from anxiety by denying and distorting || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
reality in some way. - correct answer✔✔defense mechanism
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He wants to possess (sexually) his mother exclusively and get rid of his father to enable him to do
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so - correct answer✔✔oedipus complex
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Irrationally, the boy thinks that if his father were to find out about all this, his father would take
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away what he loves the most: his penis. Hence the boy develops - correct answer✔✔castration
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anxiety
the little boy then sets out to resolve this problem by imitating, copying and joining in masculine
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dad-type behaviors - correct answer✔✔identification || || || ||