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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. 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)
Lexical approach
Endomorph
Dispositional attribution
Gender and depression
2. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Henry Murray
Endomorph
situationists
3. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Self-awareness
Self-esteem
4. External and internal locus of control
Abraham Maslow
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Julian Rotter
Martin Seligman
5. 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
Abraham Maslow
Raymond Cattell
Authoritarianism
Phenomenological view (personality)
6. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Nomothetic approach
Mirrors
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Self-monitoring
7. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
trait
Twin studies
Ectomorph
Kay Deaux
8. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Internal locus of control
3 personality theories
Abraham Maslow
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
9. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Ectomorph
personal constructs
situationists
10. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
Self-consciousness
Endomorph
External locus of control
Type A personality
11. 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
Abraham Maslow
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Endomorph
Ectomorph
12. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Costa and McCrae
Taxonomies
Idiographic approach
13. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Costa and McCrae
interactionists
Self-monitoring
Nomothetic approach
14. Personality changes little after age 30
Mirrors
Personality
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Costa and McCrae
15. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Henry Murray
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
16. Only circumstances determine behavior
Self-consciousness
Matina Horner
Barnum effect
situationists
17. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Mesomorph
Hans Eysenck
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
18. 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
Hans Eysenck
Nomothetic approach
Kay Deaux
Type A personality
19. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Androgynous
Personality tests (2 types)
Gender and depression
Personality
20. 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
Phenomenological view (personality)
Proprium or propriate function
Mirrors
Gordon Allport
21. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
personal constructs
Big Five
Idiographic approach
Consistency paradox
22. Possessing both male and female qualities
Self-efficacy
Matina Horner
Androgynous
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
23. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Self-esteem
Consistency paradox
Narcissism
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
24. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Alice Eagly
Learned helplessness
dispositionist
Costa and McCrae
25. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Implicit theories (personality)
Taxonomies
Endomorph
3 personality theories
26. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Abraham Maslow
Phenomenological view (personality)
Ectomorph
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
Androgynous
personal constructs
Type A personality
Raymond Cattell
28. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Self-consciousness
dispositionist
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Raymond Cattell
29. 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
Gordon Allport
Hans Eysenck
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
30. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
31. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Consistency paradox
Mirrors
Abraham Maslow
Bem Sex Role Inventory
32. 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
Cognitive prototype approach
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Taxonomies
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
33. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Hans Eysenck
Matina Horner
Type A personality
Implicit theories (personality)
34. Have a great need for arousal
Proprium or propriate function
Sandra Bem
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
35. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
trait
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Idiographic approach
Barnum effect
36. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Narcissism
George Kelley
Lexical approach
Taxonomies
37. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Fundamental attribution error
Self-monitoring
Self-efficacy
Bem Sex Role Inventory
38. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Implicit theories (personality)
Lexical approach
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Gender and depression
39. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Gender and depression
Abraham Maslow
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Sandra Bem
40. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Mirrors
Type theory
Learned helplessness
41. Learned helplessness
interactionists
Abraham Maslow
Henry Murray
Martin Seligman
42. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Lexical approach
Endomorph
Proprium or propriate function
43. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Barnum effect
Self-efficacy
Self-handicapping
Twin studies
44. Cognitive prototype approach
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Abraham Maslow
Personality tests (2 types)
situationists
45. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
External locus of control
Henry Murray
Trait hierarchy
Hans Eysenck
46. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)
Consistency paradox
Mirrors
Proprium or propriate function
trait
47. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Personality
Narcissism
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Mesomorph
48. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Grant Dahlstrom
Matina Horner
Personality
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
49. 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)
Mesomorph
Androgynous
Fundamental attribution error
Gender and depression
50. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Sandra Bem
Twin studies
Self-consciousness
Phrenology