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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Self-esteem
Matina Horner
personal constructs
Self-monitoring
2. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Lexical approach
Cognitive prototype approach
Personality
interactionists
3. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
Henry Murray
Authoritarianism
Learned helplessness
3 personality theories
4. Only circumstances determine behavior
Phenomenological view (personality)
situationists
interactionists
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
5. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Barnum effect
Self-awareness
Proprium or propriate function
Trait hierarchy
6. Somatotypes personality theory
Nomothetic approach
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Learned helplessness
William Sheldon
7. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Martin Seligman
Self-handicapping
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Taxonomies
8. 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-
Proprium or propriate function
Trait hierarchy
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
9. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Internal locus of control
Learned helplessness
George Kelley
Androgynous
10. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Abraham Maslow
Learned helplessness
Barnum effect
Consistency paradox
11. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Alice Eagly
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Grant Dahlstrom
Learned optimism
12. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Mirrors
Implicit theories (personality)
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Stimulus-seeking individuals
13. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Endomorph
Nomothetic approach
Internal locus of control
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
14. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Idiographic approach
Self-monitoring
Hans Eysenck
Phenomenological view (personality)
15. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
interactionists
Grant Dahlstrom
Mirrors
16. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Personality tests (2 types)
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Sandra Bem
17. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Big Five
Mesomorph
3 personality theories
dispositionist
18. Cognitive prototype approach
dispositionist
Phrenology
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Hans Eysenck
19. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Martin Seligman
Nomothetic approach
Barnum effect
Lexical approach
20. Critical of personality trait theory
Authoritarianism
personal constructs
Seymour Epstein
Type A personality
21. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
22. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Abraham Maslow
Proprium or propriate function
dispositionist
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
23. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Self-efficacy
Learned optimism
Implicit theories (personality)
interactionists
24. 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
Gordon Allport
Type A personality
personal constructs
Nomothetic approach
25. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Lexical approach
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Fundamental attribution error
Type theory
26. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Martin Seligman
dispositionist
Learned helplessness
Mesomorph
27. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
3 personality theories
Endomorph
Androgynous
28. External and internal locus of control
Julian Rotter
Self-awareness
Sandra Bem
External locus of control
29. 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-
Implicit theories (personality)
Personality
Learned helplessness
Kay Deaux
30. 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)
Type A personality
Raymond Cattell
Dispositional attribution
Kay Deaux
31. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Learned optimism
Gordon Allport
Hans Eysenck
Narcissism
32. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
3 personality theories
External locus of control
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Twin studies
33. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Barnum effect
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Grant Dahlstrom
Stimulus-seeking individuals
34. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Personality tests (2 types)
Personality
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
35. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Self-awareness
Gender and depression
Idiographic approach
Learned optimism
36. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Mirrors
George Kelley
Learned optimism
37. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Ectomorph
Gender and depression
Phenomenological view (personality)
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
38. 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
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Gender and depression
Grant Dahlstrom
Kay Deaux
39. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Grant Dahlstrom
Phenomenological view (personality)
Henry Murray
Lexical approach
40. Possessing both male and female qualities
interactionists
Barnum effect
Androgynous
Endomorph
41. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Personality tests (2 types)
personal constructs
Sandra Bem
Personality
42. Learned helplessness
personal constructs
Martin Seligman
Mirrors
Mesomorph
43. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Self-efficacy
Narcissism
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
3 personality theories
44. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Idiographic approach
3 personality theories
Self-awareness
Self-monitoring
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
Mirrors
personal constructs
Self-handicapping
George Kelley
46. 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
Gender and depression
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Hans Eysenck
Self-monitoring
47. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
3 personality theories
Mirrors
Phrenology
Self-awareness
48. 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)
situationists
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Phrenology
Matina Horner
49. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Matina Horner
Ectomorph
trait
External locus of control
50. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Fundamental attribution error
Self-awareness
Self-esteem
Personality