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GRE Psychology: Personality

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1. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory






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






3. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






4. Personality changes little after age 30






5. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






6. Have a great need for arousal






7. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph


8. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics






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






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






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






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






13. 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)






14. 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-






15. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self






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






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






18. Cognitive prototype approach






19. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically






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






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






25. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual






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






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






28. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations






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






30. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)






31. 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






32. Critical of personality trait theory






33. 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-






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






35. 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






36. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






37. 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






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






39. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






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






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






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






43. 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






44. Only circumstances determine behavior






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. Somatotypes personality theory






49. 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






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