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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Matina Horner
interactionists
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Alice Eagly
2. Personality changes little after age 30
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Costa and McCrae
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Consistency paradox
3. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Self-monitoring
Costa and McCrae
Ectomorph
Mesomorph
4. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Narcissism
Gordon Allport
Nomothetic approach
Henry Murray
5. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Idiographic approach
Consistency paradox
William Sheldon
Mesomorph
6. 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)
Gender and depression
Kay Deaux
Dispositional attribution
Self-esteem
7. Critical of personality trait theory
Seymour Epstein
Proprium or propriate function
Consistency paradox
Idiographic approach
8. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Idiographic approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Lexical approach
Barnum effect
9. 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)
Matina Horner
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
personal constructs
Gender and depression
10. Have a great need for arousal
Self-efficacy
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Abraham Maslow
Type theory
11. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Mirrors
Proprium or propriate function
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Seymour Epstein
12. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
George Kelley
Julian Rotter
Self-awareness
Personality
13. 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
Authoritarianism
Mirrors
Gender and depression
Twin studies
14. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Implicit theories (personality)
Big Five
15. 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
Gordon Allport
Learned helplessness
Costa and McCrae
Fundamental attribution error
16. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
3 personality theories
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Gordon Allport
George Kelley
17. Only circumstances determine behavior
personal constructs
Proprium or propriate function
Dispositional attribution
situationists
18. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
Type A personality
Self-consciousness
personal constructs
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
19. Studied Type A personality
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
External locus of control
Mirrors
personal constructs
20. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Lexical approach
George Kelley
Nomothetic approach
3 personality theories
21. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Matina Horner
Taxonomies
dispositionist
22. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
23. Hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow
Grant Dahlstrom
George Kelley
interactionists
24. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
trait
George Kelley
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Lexical approach
25. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Internal locus of control
Proprium or propriate function
Gender and depression
Alice Eagly
26. 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
Kay Deaux
Big Five
Learned optimism
Lexical approach
27. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Costa and McCrae
Learned optimism
Cognitive prototype approach
Big Five
28. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Internal locus of control
External locus of control
Self-monitoring
Bem Sex Role Inventory
29. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Cognitive prototype approach
Idiographic approach
Abraham Maslow
Henry Murray
30. 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
personal constructs
Idiographic approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Hans Eysenck
31. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
32. 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
Hans Eysenck
Learned helplessness
Mirrors
Big Five
33. 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-
Kay Deaux
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Internal locus of control
Big Five
34. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Type A personality
Self-awareness
Self-handicapping
Kay Deaux
35. 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
Learned helplessness
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Twin studies
External locus of control
36. 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
Self-handicapping
Gordon Allport
3 personality theories
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
37. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Twin studies
Grant Dahlstrom
Self-handicapping
Stimulus-seeking individuals
38. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Taxonomies
Personality tests (2 types)
Endomorph
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
39. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Lexical approach
Idiographic approach
Abraham Maslow
Learned optimism
40. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Narcissism
Self-esteem
Hans Eysenck
Personality
41. 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
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
William Sheldon
Mirrors
42. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)
Trait hierarchy
Phrenology
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Cognitive prototype approach
43. External and internal locus of control
Phenomenological view (personality)
Julian Rotter
Sandra Bem
Learned helplessness
44. 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-
trait
Gordon Allport
Learned helplessness
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
45. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Phenomenological view (personality)
Learned helplessness
personal constructs
Big Five
46. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Personality tests (2 types)
Taxonomies
Cognitive prototype approach
External locus of control
47. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Dispositional attribution
Henry Murray
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Cognitive prototype approach
48. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
External locus of control
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Self-efficacy
49. Somatotypes personality theory
Self-esteem
Consistency paradox
William Sheldon
Nomothetic approach
50. 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
personal constructs
Ectomorph
Raymond Cattell
Dispositional attribution