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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Possessing both male and female qualities
Proprium or propriate function
Self-handicapping
Self-monitoring
Androgynous
2. women'S success at 'male' tasks attributed to luck - - while men'S success attributed to skill; Suggesting - gender is a social construct that colours interpretations; - women attribute successes to luck more than men indicating they have lower self-
Kay Deaux
George Kelley
Self-consciousness
Costa and McCrae
3. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Self-handicapping
Abraham Maslow
Personality
4. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Self-esteem
Internal locus of control
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Ectomorph
5. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Internal locus of control
Mirrors
Idiographic approach
William Sheldon
6. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
personal constructs
Alice Eagly
dispositionist
3 personality theories
7. 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)
Idiographic approach
Fundamental attribution error
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Type theory
8. 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
William Sheldon
Big Five
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Stimulus-seeking individuals
9. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Taxonomies
Self-awareness
Personality tests (2 types)
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
10. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
3 personality theories
Raymond Cattell
Internal locus of control
Self-monitoring
11. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
personal constructs
Type theory
3 personality theories
Lexical approach
12. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Type theory
Mesomorph
Nomothetic approach
3 personality theories
13. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Self-monitoring
Phrenology
Hans Eysenck
14. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
interactionists
Learned helplessness
Abraham Maslow
Mesomorph
15. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Abraham Maslow
Self-consciousness
personal constructs
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
16. Criticized trait and type theories that both assume behaviour is stable across situations and people fail to take circumstances into account; - studies show that people often act different in different situations; consistency paradox
Self-esteem
Self-consciousness
Self-efficacy
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
17. Only circumstances determine behavior
situationists
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Type A personality
18. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Nomothetic approach
Alice Eagly
Consistency paradox
Type theory
19. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Abraham Maslow
Henry Murray
Learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
20. Somatotypes personality theory
Taxonomies
Internal locus of control
William Sheldon
Hans Eysenck
21. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Julian Rotter
George Kelley
Endomorph
22. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
External locus of control
Bem Sex Role Inventory
situationists
Big Five
23. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Endomorph
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Costa and McCrae
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
24. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Self-esteem
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Type A personality
25. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Self-monitoring
situationists
Authoritarianism
Personality
26. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Nomothetic approach
Ectomorph
Grant Dahlstrom
Personality tests (2 types)
27. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
Narcissism
Implicit theories (personality)
Type A personality
Fundamental attribution error
28. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Big Five
Personality tests (2 types)
Self-handicapping
Learned optimism
29. Cognitive prototype approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
3 personality theories
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
30. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Mirrors
Trait hierarchy
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Sandra Bem
31. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Androgynous
Consistency paradox
George Kelley
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
32. 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
Big Five
Self-esteem
3 personality theories
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
33. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Phrenology
Type theory
Proprium or propriate function
Self-handicapping
34. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
External locus of control
Martin Seligman
Idiographic approach
Alice Eagly
35. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Self-monitoring
Phenomenological view (personality)
Abraham Maslow
Mirrors
36. 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
Bem Sex Role Inventory
3 personality theories
Nomothetic approach
Raymond Cattell
37. Studied Type A personality
dispositionist
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Personality
Learned helplessness
38. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Narcissism
Authoritarianism
Internal locus of control
William Sheldon
39. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Phenomenological view (personality)
Personality tests (2 types)
Self-monitoring
dispositionist
40. 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)
Personality
Self-esteem
Sandra Bem
Dispositional attribution
41. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Implicit theories (personality)
Alice Eagly
personal constructs
situationists
42. Suggested females shun masculine-type successes not because of fear or failure or lack of interest - but they fear success and its negative repercussions (i.e. resentment and rejection)
Matina Horner
Gender and depression
Costa and McCrae
Learned optimism
43. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Nomothetic approach
interactionists
Alice Eagly
Big Five
44. Generally make people more self-aware; small mirror - not so self-aware since its common - large mirror - very self-aware since we see a view of ourselves as others see us
Mirrors
Androgynous
Consistency paradox
Grant Dahlstrom
45. Used factor analysis to identify underlying traits of 2 personality-type dimensions (introversion-extraversion and stable-unstable [neuroticism]); - two dimensions formed a cross and four quadrants of phlegmatic - melancholic - choleric - sanguine
Hans Eysenck
George Kelley
Alice Eagly
Lexical approach
46. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Nomothetic approach
Gordon Allport
Self-awareness
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
47. Learned helplessness
Type theory
Seymour Epstein
Self-efficacy
Martin Seligman
48. Critical of personality trait theory
Twin studies
Seymour Epstein
Type theory
situationists
49. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Personality tests (2 types)
trait
Gender and depression
50. Personality changes little after age 30
Matina Horner
Costa and McCrae
Sandra Bem
Personality