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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Possessing both male and female qualities
Self-efficacy
Costa and McCrae
Androgynous
Hans Eysenck
2. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Internal locus of control
Proprium or propriate function
External locus of control
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
3. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Learned optimism
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Seymour Epstein
Alice Eagly
4. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Self-handicapping
Learned optimism
Kay Deaux
5. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Phenomenological view (personality)
Idiographic approach
Type A personality
Cognitive prototype approach
6. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Androgynous
Self-monitoring
Implicit theories (personality)
Alice Eagly
7. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Self-efficacy
Self-handicapping
interactionists
Authoritarianism
8. External and internal locus of control
Julian Rotter
Cognitive prototype approach
Gordon Allport
George Kelley
9. Studied Type A personality
Ectomorph
Big Five
Fundamental attribution error
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
10. 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-
Proprium or propriate function
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Type theory
Kay Deaux
11. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Personality
Henry Murray
Cognitive prototype approach
12. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Dispositional attribution
Implicit theories (personality)
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
13. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Dispositional attribution
Consistency paradox
Phrenology
Endomorph
14. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Learned optimism
Type A personality
Kay Deaux
Taxonomies
15. 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
Self-monitoring
Authoritarianism
Mesomorph
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
16. 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-
situationists
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Self-esteem
Costa and McCrae
17. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Phenomenological view (personality)
Hans Eysenck
Lexical approach
18. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Barnum effect
Personality tests (2 types)
trait
Phrenology
19. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Alice Eagly
Henry Murray
Personality tests (2 types)
Self-esteem
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
Abraham Maslow
Mirrors
Self-awareness
Gender and depression
21. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Self-handicapping
Self-consciousness
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Type theory
22. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Fundamental attribution error
Personality tests (2 types)
Personality
Bem Sex Role Inventory
23. Learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
Raymond Cattell
Endomorph
trait
24. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Kay Deaux
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Self-monitoring
25. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Phrenology
Endomorph
Self-consciousness
Personality tests (2 types)
26. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Grant Dahlstrom
Lexical approach
dispositionist
personal constructs
27. Hierarchy of needs
Barnum effect
Seymour Epstein
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Abraham Maslow
28. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Cognitive prototype approach
Abraham Maslow
Type A personality
Consistency paradox
29. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
30. Somatotypes personality theory
William Sheldon
Phrenology
George Kelley
Kay Deaux
31. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Seymour Epstein
Self-awareness
Learned helplessness
Internal locus of control
32. 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
Seymour Epstein
Matina Horner
Hans Eysenck
Implicit theories (personality)
33. Have a great need for arousal
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Kay Deaux
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Internal locus of control
34. 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
Gender and depression
Type A personality
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Seymour Epstein
35. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Henry Murray
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Ectomorph
Mesomorph
36. 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
Cognitive prototype approach
Proprium or propriate function
Gender and depression
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
37. 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)
Taxonomies
Gender and depression
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Matina Horner
38. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Self-esteem
Grant Dahlstrom
Idiographic approach
Self-awareness
39. Cognitive prototype approach
Self-monitoring
Matina Horner
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Idiographic approach
40. Personality changes little after age 30
Consistency paradox
Costa and McCrae
personal constructs
Learned helplessness
41. 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
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Mesomorph
Self-efficacy
Gordon Allport
42. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Barnum effect
George Kelley
Phenomenological view (personality)
Idiographic approach
43. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Implicit theories (personality)
Alice Eagly
personal constructs
Endomorph
44. 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
Learned helplessness
Mesomorph
Consistency paradox
Self-efficacy
45. Critical of personality trait theory
Seymour Epstein
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Learned helplessness
Personality
46. 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)
Fundamental attribution error
Seymour Epstein
Henry Murray
Abraham Maslow
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)
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Self-handicapping
Dispositional attribution
Phenomenological view (personality)
48. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)
Personality tests (2 types)
trait
Cognitive prototype approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
49. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Nomothetic approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Big Five
personal constructs
50. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)
Trait hierarchy
Self-monitoring
Androgynous
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor