Why is personality psychology considered to be a hub field?

What will be an ideal response?


A good answer would include the following key points:
- Personality psychology is a hub field because it is at the center of a web of subareas within psychology, such as industrial-organizational psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience.
- Hub fields both contribute to and draw from other related areas of study.

Psychology

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On a political science test, Barack is asked to write down the name of the main democratic presidential candidate in the United States in 2008 . He has no idea of the answer, so he asked his teacher for a hint. The teacher says, "I can tell you this, when he won my friend said, "oh mama.". With the hint, Barack is now being presented with a _____ memory task

a. cued-recall b. recognition c. recall d. implicit

Psychology

Carla works hard to get As on her report card because it is personally rewarding. Her behavior is being influenced by:

a. fixed action patterns c. extrinsic motivation b. intrinsic motivation d. drive-reduction theory

Psychology

Describe Benjamin Whorf’s linguistic relativity hypothesis and the research has to say about the hypothesis

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

The heritability of intelligence _____________ from childhood to adulthood

a. decreases b. increases c. stays the same d. has not been calculated in this area of research

Psychology