Virtual Psychology Assignment
You are to access the Holt McDougal Psychology: Principles in Practice Book Website. If you have your book home you may use that as well.
Go the following website: http://my.hrw.com
Enter the following username: ucstudentuc
Enter the following password: Vikings
Select “Log In”
Click on “Go to the Online ebook”
Up top in the left corner it will tell you Chapter and sections
You are to choose Chapter 14: Theories of Personality (case study, section 1:Trait approach, section 3: Learning approach)
Type out the answers to the enclosed questions for a quiz grade.
When you are done, email them to kgrausam@unioncatholic.org.
I must receive the completed assignment by email, by 6pm Sunday
CASE STUDY
1. What can HUMOR reveal about you?
2. What is “hate me” humor?
3. True or False: The ability to laugh in the face of danger actually suggests a healthy psyche.
4. Which type of humor style do you and your friends have? do you agree that your humor style reflects your
personality? Why or why not?
SECTION 1 Trait Approach
5. True or False: Shyness can be diagnosed as a disorder in psychology.
6. Define PERSONALITY
TRAIT
7. What temperament is associated with the following body fluids?
Choleric Sanguine Melancholic Phlegmatic
Match the following theorists with their ideas (questions 8-14)
Hippocrates Gordon Allport Hans Eysenck 5 Factor Model
8. This theory/theorist had two dimensions to his/their theory: introvert/extrovert; emotionally stable/emotionally
unstable.
9. Personalities mature naturally as part of the aging process rather than in response to external, environmental
conditions
10. This theory/theorist believed traits are inherited and fixed in the nervous system
11. This theory/theorist believed the body contained fluids called humors.
12. This theory/theorist believed traits are the building blocks of personality.
13. This theory/theorist suggests that certain aspects appear to define personality structures of American, German,
Portuguese, Jewish, Chinese, Korean and Japanese people.
14. This theory/theorist believed personality traits are a result of different combination of bodily fluids.
15. How do Hippocrates temperaments fit into Eysenck’s theory. State the similarities.
16. How do INTROVERTS and EXTROVERTS tend to differ?
17. What are the FIVE factors in the Five Factor Model?
18. True or False: There is a link between the five factors and some anxiety disorders.

SECTION 3 The Learning Approach
19. What does the Learning approach emphasize?
20. True or False: Your sense of humor is a learned behavior.
21. Who is John B. Watson? What does he claim?
22. Who in the 1930’s, took up Watson’s ideas and emphasized the effects of reinforcement on behavior?
23. What THREE environmental influences did Skinner say shape us into wanting some things and not wanting others?
24. What is the process in which people learn the socially desirable behaviors of their culture?
25. Bandura argued that behavior is learned by _____________________ and _________________________________
26. What was the “Bobo Doll” study?
27. True or False: Bandura found that children who witnessed an adult being punished for aggressive behavior were
less likely to copy the adult’s behavior.
28. According to Bandura’s social cognitive theory, what three factors shape a personality?
29. According to social-learning theorists, how might children’s behavior be affected by domestic violence?