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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Only circumstances determine behavior
Learned helplessness
Self-consciousness
Personality tests (2 types)
situationists
2. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Type A personality
Phenomenological view (personality)
Nomothetic approach
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
3. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Self-handicapping
George Kelley
Nomothetic approach
Phenomenological view (personality)
4. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
George Kelley
Martin Seligman
Endomorph
Taxonomies
5. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Big Five
Phrenology
Self-esteem
Stimulus-seeking individuals
6. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Gordon Allport
dispositionist
Self-awareness
Barnum effect
7. To show personality traits exist in a person - show person exhibits those traits in a variety of situations; cognitive behaviour (e.g. formulation of and attention to prototypes) is examined in social situations; - consistency of behaviour is result
Costa and McCrae
Learned optimism
Cognitive prototype approach
Phrenology
8. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)
Henry Murray
Personality
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
trait
9. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
3 personality theories
Gender and depression
Barnum effect
Learned helplessness
10. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Gender and depression
personal constructs
Personality
Barnum effect
11. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Sandra Bem
12. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Androgynous
Costa and McCrae
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Sandra Bem
13. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Narcissism
William Sheldon
Dispositional attribution
14. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Trait hierarchy
Raymond Cattell
Taxonomies
Personality tests (2 types)
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)
Endomorph
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Fundamental attribution error
External locus of control
16. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Cognitive prototype approach
Consistency paradox
Phrenology
Hans Eysenck
17. External and internal locus of control
Hans Eysenck
Julian Rotter
Henry Murray
Alice Eagly
18. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Proprium or propriate function
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Self-efficacy
Sandra Bem
19. 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
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Cognitive prototype approach
Learned helplessness
Learned optimism
20. 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
George Kelley
Gordon Allport
Implicit theories (personality)
Stimulus-seeking individuals
21. 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
Self-monitoring
Mirrors
Narcissism
Big Five
22. 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
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Lexical approach
Learned optimism
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
23. Critical of personality trait theory
situationists
Proprium or propriate function
Matina Horner
Seymour Epstein
24. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Grant Dahlstrom
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Learned helplessness
Phrenology
25. 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
Barnum effect
Learned optimism
Type theory
Raymond Cattell
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-
personal constructs
Hans Eysenck
Androgynous
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
27. Hierarchy of needs
Phenomenological view (personality)
situationists
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Abraham Maslow
28. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)
situationists
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Trait hierarchy
George Kelley
29. Personality changes little after age 30
Androgynous
Costa and McCrae
Ectomorph
personal constructs
30. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Kay Deaux
Proprium or propriate function
Personality tests (2 types)
Dispositional attribution
31. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
interactionists
Type A personality
Endomorph
Internal locus of control
32. Learned helplessness
Twin studies
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Martin Seligman
Type A personality
33. 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)
Lexical approach
Narcissism
Matina Horner
Internal locus of control
34. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Implicit theories (personality)
Self-consciousness
Personality tests (2 types)
35. Somatotypes personality theory
Narcissism
Gordon Allport
Personality tests (2 types)
William Sheldon
36. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Personality
Type A personality
trait
37. Shows heritability of personality about 40-50% - identical twins separated at birth; 'Jim' twins had wives and dogs with same name - and same habits; differences shows environmental impact
William Sheldon
Phrenology
Twin studies
Gender and depression
38. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Learned optimism
Alice Eagly
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Endomorph
39. Have a great need for arousal
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Cognitive prototype approach
William Sheldon
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
40. 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
Matina Horner
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Big Five
Gender and depression
41. 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)
Internal locus of control
Dispositional attribution
Androgynous
External locus of control
42. 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-
Costa and McCrae
Androgynous
Kay Deaux
Trait hierarchy
43. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
3 personality theories
Mesomorph
Type A personality
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
44. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Implicit theories (personality)
Gender and depression
Gordon Allport
45. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
46. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Self-efficacy
3 personality theories
Learned optimism
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
47. Studied Type A personality
George Kelley
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Endomorph
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
48. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Self-efficacy
Consistency paradox
situationists
Phenomenological view (personality)
49. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Authoritarianism
situationists
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Alice Eagly
50. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Julian Rotter
George Kelley
Ectomorph