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GRE Psychology: Personality

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1. Personality changes little after age 30






2. Critical of personality trait theory






3. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)






4. External and internal locus of control






5. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






6. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social






7. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior






8. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men






9. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






10. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness






11. 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)






12. Belief that one can effectively perform a task






13. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem






14. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed






15. Learned helplessness






16. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)






17. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently






18. Have a great need for arousal






19. Possessing both male and female qualities






20. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'






21. 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)






22. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






26. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist






27. 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)






28. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure






29. Cognitive prototype approach






30. 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






31. 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






32. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person






33. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts






34. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)






35. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






36. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)






37. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced






38. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience






39. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality






40. 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-






41. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame






42. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems






43. 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






44. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes






45. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality






46. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations






47. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition






48. The disposition to view the world as full of power relationships - measured by the F-scale (Fascism scale); - these individuals are either highly domineering (if top dog of situation) or submissive (as if they are in presence of a more powerfulfigure






49. Somatotypes personality theory






50. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations