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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Mesomorph
Sandra Bem
Abraham Maslow
Grant Dahlstrom
2. Critical of personality trait theory
Seymour Epstein
Androgynous
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Authoritarianism
3. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
dispositionist
Taxonomies
Cognitive prototype approach
Martin Seligman
4. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Big Five
interactionists
Taxonomies
Personality tests (2 types)
5. Cognitive prototype approach
Personality tests (2 types)
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Endomorph
situationists
6. Emphasized idiographic approach to personality theory - as opposed to nomothetic; conscious motives governed by proprium or propriate function; lexical approach (5000 possible traits) - determined trait hierarchy of cardinal - central - secondary tra
Big Five
Bem Sex Role Inventory
dispositionist
Gordon Allport
7. Fundamental attribution error; tendency for others to think actions are caused more by personality than situation (e.g. lie because he is a liar - not because of the situation)
George Kelley
Big Five
Learned optimism
Dispositional attribution
8. Hierarchy of needs
trait
Mesomorph
Type theory
Abraham Maslow
9. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Nomothetic approach
Ectomorph
Hans Eysenck
Mirrors
10. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Lexical approach
Fundamental attribution error
Sandra Bem
Mesomorph
11. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)
Gender and depression
Cognitive prototype approach
trait
Androgynous
12. Possessing both male and female qualities
Androgynous
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Grant Dahlstrom
Type theory
13. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Sandra Bem
Cognitive prototype approach
Androgynous
Personality
14. Somatotypes personality theory
Kay Deaux
Narcissism
Personality tests (2 types)
William Sheldon
15. Dispositional attribution; tendency for others to think actions are caused more by personality than situation (e.g. lie because he is a liar - not because of the situation)
Kay Deaux
Martin Seligman
Fundamental attribution error
Lexical approach
16. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
17. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Twin studies
Costa and McCrae
Hans Eysenck
Consistency paradox
18. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
External locus of control
personal constructs
William Sheldon
Narcissism
19. Only circumstances determine behavior
Proprium or propriate function
Lexical approach
Type theory
situationists
20. Used factor analysis in data reduction of Allport'S 5000 traits; identified 16 bipolar source traits (e.g. relaxed-tense) that seemed to underlie all; 16 personality factors tested in personality questionnaire
External locus of control
Raymond Cattell
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Authoritarianism
21. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Hans Eysenck
Bem Sex Role Inventory
22. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Gordon Allport
Lexical approach
William Sheldon
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
23. Have a great need for arousal
External locus of control
Gordon Allport
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Consistency paradox
24. Experience can change people'S personalities; after a series of events one feels helpless or out of control - negative or pessimistic explanatory style develops; gives up in general - exhibits helpless disposition; countered with learned optimism
Idiographic approach
Learned helplessness
dispositionist
Fundamental attribution error
25. Found few sex differences existed that could not be explained by simple social learning; - most consistent difference that seems independent of social influence is that females have greater verbal ability and males have greater visual/spatial ability
Taxonomies
Mesomorph
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
26. Suggested personality typology based on personal activity and social interest; ruling-dominant type (choleric; high-low) - getting-learning type (phlegmatic; low-high) - avoiding type (melancholic; low-low) - and socially useful type (sanguine; high-
Gordon Allport
interactionists
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
27. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Big Five
Implicit theories (personality)
Self-efficacy
Lexical approach
28. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Alice Eagly
Trait hierarchy
Grant Dahlstrom
Costa and McCrae
29. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Self-awareness
Costa and McCrae
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Taxonomies
30. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Self-esteem
Costa and McCrae
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Learned optimism
31. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
Self-efficacy
3 personality theories
Fundamental attribution error
Trait hierarchy
32. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Self-monitoring
Type theory
Alice Eagly
Big Five
33. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Self-esteem
Phrenology
Type A personality
Internal locus of control
34. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Implicit theories (personality)
Self-consciousness
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
William Sheldon
35. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Type theory
3 personality theories
Personality tests (2 types)
Bem Sex Role Inventory
36. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Ectomorph
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Big Five
Gender and depression
37. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Narcissism
Self-awareness
Alice Eagly
situationists
38. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Dispositional attribution
Self-consciousness
Self-efficacy
trait
39. External and internal locus of control
Self-handicapping
Julian Rotter
Gender and depression
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
40. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Endomorph
Self-handicapping
Gender and depression
Costa and McCrae
41. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Taxonomies
Sandra Bem
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Abraham Maslow
42. Personality changes little after age 30
Proprium or propriate function
interactionists
Costa and McCrae
Personality
43. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Ectomorph
Proprium or propriate function
Idiographic approach
Twin studies
44. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
trait
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
External locus of control
Grant Dahlstrom
45. Superfactors - 5 dimensions that encompass all of personality; superordinate traits or facets; O-dimension (openness to experience - intellectual curiosity) - C-dimension (conscientiousness) - E-dimension (extroversion - enthusiasm) - A-dimension (ag
Narcissism
Self-esteem
Big Five
Type theory
46. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Taxonomies
trait
personal constructs
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
47. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Authoritarianism
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
George Kelley
Narcissism
48. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Consistency paradox
Barnum effect
personal constructs
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
49. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
interactionists
Nomothetic approach
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Phenomenological view (personality)
50. Studied Type A personality
Endomorph
Abraham Maslow
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Type theory