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