Exam 4: Trait Theories of Pesonality

Eysenck's three superfactors are

Someone who is sociable, talkative, active, optimistic, and fun-loving would be said to have a high level of

Zuckerman calls someone who appears to have a high need for stimulation a

During which developmental era of the proprium would a child develop a sense of possession?

Why is it hard to falsify evolutionary psychology?

Sociobiologist E. O. Wilson included evolution and religion among the three great mythologies. What was the third?

What do you discover when you square a correlation coefficient?

What suggests that adult motives and behaviors are not necessarily tied to earlier childhood experiences

According to Eysenck, persons showing aggressive, cold, egocentric, impersonal, impulsive, and tough minded traits are "high" on

Allport calls specific low level behaviors that form the foundation for higher level traits

What does anthropomorphize mean?

While correlation may indicate how strongly things co-occur, it does not indicate

Secondary traits are

When you brush your teeth, according to Allport you are exhibiting a

focused much of his research on mating strategies.

What does the term ambivert refer to?

When a person is described as anxious, depressed, irrational, moody, emotional, shy, tense, and has low self-esteem, they are rated high on

Roseau argued that humans are born fundamentally pure and good. Who embraced this argument in our area stating that parents and teachers contaminate the natural goodness of infants and children by requiring them to meet societally derived conditions of worth before fully accepting them?

Nomothetic research attempts to discover which one of the following?

Which of the following is NOT something that traits are commonly viewed as among personality researchers?