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GRE Psychology: Personality

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1. 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






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






3. Belief that one can effectively perform a task






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






5. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. Possessing both male and female qualities






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






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






14. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






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






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






17. 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-






18. 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)






19. 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-






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






21. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)






22. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






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






24. Studied Type A personality






25. 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






26. Cognitive prototype approach






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Learned helplessness






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






36. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior






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






38. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






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






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






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






42. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






43. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual






44. Have a great need for arousal






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






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






47. 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)






48. 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






49. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






50. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists