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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Kay Deaux
Proprium or propriate function
Type theory
Hans Eysenck
2. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
George Kelley
Phenomenological view (personality)
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Learned helplessness
3. 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
Nomothetic approach
Sandra Bem
Twin studies
Kay Deaux
4. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Learned helplessness
Mirrors
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Henry Murray
5. 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
Personality
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Personality tests (2 types)
6. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
trait
Self-handicapping
Mesomorph
dispositionist
7. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Type A personality
Internal locus of control
Henry Murray
8. 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
Androgynous
personal constructs
External locus of control
Authoritarianism
9. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Dispositional attribution
Self-awareness
Self-consciousness
Cognitive prototype approach
10. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
interactionists
Androgynous
Barnum effect
Seymour Epstein
11. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Phenomenological view (personality)
Twin studies
Costa and McCrae
Sandra Bem
12. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Internal locus of control
Gordon Allport
Hans Eysenck
Self-esteem
13. 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
Proprium or propriate function
interactionists
Mirrors
Learned optimism
14. Critical of personality trait theory
Mesomorph
Phenomenological view (personality)
Seymour Epstein
Type theory
15. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
16. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Phenomenological view (personality)
Type A personality
Self-consciousness
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
17. 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
Grant Dahlstrom
Mesomorph
Hans Eysenck
Gender and depression
18. External and internal locus of control
Implicit theories (personality)
Cognitive prototype approach
Julian Rotter
Hans Eysenck
19. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
Endomorph
Type A personality
Consistency paradox
Self-awareness
20. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Ectomorph
George Kelley
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Mirrors
21. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
personal constructs
Proprium or propriate function
Seymour Epstein
Gordon Allport
22. Studied Type A personality
William Sheldon
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Raymond Cattell
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
23. 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)
dispositionist
Matina Horner
Authoritarianism
Raymond Cattell
24. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Narcissism
Cognitive prototype approach
Proprium or propriate function
Big Five
25. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Nomothetic approach
Taxonomies
Phrenology
Learned optimism
26. Personality changes little after age 30
Endomorph
Julian Rotter
Fundamental attribution error
Costa and McCrae
27. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Endomorph
Mirrors
Proprium or propriate function
Narcissism
28. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
George Kelley
Sandra Bem
Learned helplessness
Personality
29. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Proprium or propriate function
Nomothetic approach
Self-monitoring
30. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Self-monitoring
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Grant Dahlstrom
Type A personality
31. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Fundamental attribution error
Consistency paradox
Self-awareness
32. 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
Bem Sex Role Inventory
situationists
Big Five
Internal locus of control
33. 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
Cognitive prototype approach
dispositionist
Phenomenological view (personality)
34. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Endomorph
Martin Seligman
Consistency paradox
Type theory
35. 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
Endomorph
Lexical approach
Barnum effect
36. Cognitive prototype approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Mirrors
Internal locus of control
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
37. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Henry Murray
Personality tests (2 types)
Cognitive prototype approach
Taxonomies
38. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Internal locus of control
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Kay Deaux
Alice Eagly
39. Learned helplessness
Mirrors
3 personality theories
Martin Seligman
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
40. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
interactionists
Self-monitoring
Taxonomies
Gordon Allport
41. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Mirrors
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Mesomorph
Proprium or propriate function
42. 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
Alice Eagly
Self-awareness
George Kelley
43. 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-
Phenomenological view (personality)
Barnum effect
Self-monitoring
Kay Deaux
44. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
External locus of control
Taxonomies
3 personality theories
Gordon Allport
45. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Taxonomies
Mesomorph
William Sheldon
Self-efficacy
46. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
Dispositional attribution
3 personality theories
Bem Sex Role Inventory
dispositionist
47. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Taxonomies
Internal locus of control
Barnum effect
Abraham Maslow
48. Only circumstances determine behavior
Sandra Bem
Matina Horner
situationists
personal constructs
49. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Gordon Allport
Implicit theories (personality)
Narcissism
Raymond Cattell
50. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Sandra Bem
dispositionist
Consistency paradox
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)