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GRE Psychology: Personality

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






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






3. Hierarchy of needs






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


5. Belief that one can effectively perform a task






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






7. Have a great need for arousal






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






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






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






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






12. Critical of personality trait theory






13. 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)






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






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






16. Learned helplessness






17. 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






18. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






19. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






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






21. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






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






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






24. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






25. 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-






26. 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-






27. 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






28. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






29. External and internal locus of control






30. 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






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






32. 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






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






34. Studied Type A personality






35. 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)






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






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






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






39. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior






40. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory






41. 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






42. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences






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






44. 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






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






46. Possessing both male and female qualities






47. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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