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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Have a great need for arousal
Idiographic approach
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Type A personality
Self-esteem
2. 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
Phrenology
Learned optimism
Self-monitoring
Mirrors
3. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Nomothetic approach
Narcissism
Self-esteem
Internal locus of control
4. Studied Type A personality
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Self-awareness
Internal locus of control
Proprium or propriate function
5. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Raymond Cattell
Consistency paradox
6. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Phrenology
Consistency paradox
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Phenomenological view (personality)
7. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Implicit theories (personality)
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Self-handicapping
Type theory
8. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
Phenomenological view (personality)
External locus of control
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Personality
9. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Cognitive prototype approach
Costa and McCrae
Proprium or propriate function
10. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Type theory
Self-consciousness
11. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Grant Dahlstrom
Internal locus of control
Phenomenological view (personality)
Proprium or propriate function
12. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
George Kelley
Narcissism
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Self-awareness
13. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)
Type A personality
Trait hierarchy
Sandra Bem
Fundamental attribution error
14. 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
Big Five
Self-handicapping
External locus of control
Self-monitoring
15. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
3 personality theories
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Julian Rotter
Self-consciousness
16. 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
Narcissism
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Implicit theories (personality)
Gender and depression
17. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
3 personality theories
Trait hierarchy
Taxonomies
Androgynous
18. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Kay Deaux
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Internal locus of control
19. Learned helplessness
personal constructs
Henry Murray
Martin Seligman
Sandra Bem
20. 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-
Lexical approach
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
personal constructs
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
21. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Phenomenological view (personality)
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Cognitive prototype approach
interactionists
22. 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
Hans Eysenck
Kay Deaux
Grant Dahlstrom
Learned helplessness
23. Somatotypes personality theory
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
William Sheldon
Cognitive prototype approach
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
Abraham Maslow
Endomorph
Self-efficacy
Gordon Allport
25. Only circumstances determine behavior
Barnum effect
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
situationists
Internal locus of control
26. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Idiographic approach
Phrenology
Consistency paradox
Henry Murray
27. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Twin studies
Julian Rotter
28. External and internal locus of control
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Julian Rotter
Raymond Cattell
Hans Eysenck
29. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Julian Rotter
Personality
Hans Eysenck
Mesomorph
30. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Costa and McCrae
Mesomorph
Consistency paradox
Alice Eagly
31. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Bem Sex Role Inventory
dispositionist
Kay Deaux
Stimulus-seeking individuals
32. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
situationists
Self-esteem
Endomorph
33. Personality changes little after age 30
Internal locus of control
Costa and McCrae
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Consistency paradox
34. 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
Seymour Epstein
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Twin studies
Androgynous
35. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)
Fundamental attribution error
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
trait
Self-consciousness
36. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Hans Eysenck
interactionists
Implicit theories (personality)
3 personality theories
37. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
3 personality theories
Gordon Allport
Type A personality
Taxonomies
38. 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
Authoritarianism
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Gender and depression
Implicit theories (personality)
39. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Personality tests (2 types)
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Alice Eagly
Matina Horner
40. 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)
Matina Horner
Fundamental attribution error
Phenomenological view (personality)
3 personality theories
41. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Endomorph
George Kelley
Self-consciousness
Learned optimism
42. 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)
Alice Eagly
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Dispositional attribution
Sandra Bem
43. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Authoritarianism
Phrenology
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Julian Rotter
44. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Self-awareness
trait
Raymond Cattell
Self-monitoring
45. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Twin studies
Gender and depression
Self-consciousness
46. Critical of personality trait theory
Endomorph
Seymour Epstein
Self-esteem
Dispositional attribution
47. 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
3 personality theories
Phrenology
Martin Seligman
Raymond Cattell
48. Hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow
Endomorph
Personality tests (2 types)
Phenomenological view (personality)
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
William Sheldon
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Seymour Epstein
Taxonomies
50. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Gordon Allport
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Nomothetic approach