Lecture 1

Question 1

What is the ID Approach?

Answer 1

• Individual differences
• Recognising differences in people while establishing psychological dimensions
• Different situations= different reactions

Question 2

What is the structural model of ID?

Answer 2

• Personality and intelligence
• Experience and life histories
• Societal and cultural background
  Psychophysiology and cognition

Question 3

What are examples of the components of the structural model?

Answer 3

• Experience and life histories- not everyone was/wasn’t sick at the same time
• Societal- East v West, Individualistic vs collectivistic
• Psych and cognition- anxiety, differential activation/ behaviour

Question 4

What is an example of the ID approach?

Answer 4

Belief in luck- creation of a conceptual space in which beliefs in good luck manifest themselves
What predicts belief in good luck- found that the personality construct of optimism does
Attribution of causality- locus of control- who controls your life- you/ the world/ god- caims to predict good luck