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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Idiographic approach
Grant Dahlstrom
Ectomorph
Internal locus of control
2. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Trait hierarchy
Nomothetic approach
3 personality theories
Learned helplessness
3. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
George Kelley
External locus of control
Learned optimism
Julian Rotter
4. 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)
Taxonomies
Learned optimism
Mesomorph
Fundamental attribution error
5. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
External locus of control
Self-consciousness
Grant Dahlstrom
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
6. 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-
Gender and depression
Phrenology
interactionists
Kay Deaux
7. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Consistency paradox
interactionists
Internal locus of control
Narcissism
8. 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
Self-efficacy
Sandra Bem
Big Five
9. Hierarchy of needs
personal constructs
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Twin studies
Abraham Maslow
10. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Self-efficacy
Grant Dahlstrom
Henry Murray
Self-handicapping
11. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Androgynous
Proprium or propriate function
Phrenology
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
12. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Gender and depression
Self-esteem
Proprium or propriate function
Raymond Cattell
13. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
interactionists
Proprium or propriate function
Self-esteem
Barnum effect
14. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Ectomorph
Implicit theories (personality)
Personality tests (2 types)
Alice Eagly
15. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Martin Seligman
Self-monitoring
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Kay Deaux
16. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
Type A personality
Internal locus of control
Personality
Matina Horner
17. Possessing both male and female qualities
Consistency paradox
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Androgynous
Personality tests (2 types)
18. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
dispositionist
Personality tests (2 types)
Barnum effect
Mesomorph
19. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
situationists
Nomothetic approach
Type A personality
Ectomorph
20. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Nomothetic approach
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Alice Eagly
Lexical approach
21. 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
Consistency paradox
Twin studies
Grant Dahlstrom
Gordon Allport
22. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Self-consciousness
Implicit theories (personality)
Self-handicapping
Phrenology
23. Studied Type A personality
Ectomorph
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
George Kelley
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
24. 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
personal constructs
Learned helplessness
Authoritarianism
Mesomorph
25. Cognitive prototype approach
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Raymond Cattell
Hans Eysenck
interactionists
26. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Consistency paradox
Matina Horner
Hans Eysenck
27. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Personality tests (2 types)
Barnum effect
Androgynous
External locus of control
28. Somatotypes personality theory
Mirrors
External locus of control
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
William Sheldon
29. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
3 personality theories
Dispositional attribution
Raymond Cattell
Costa and McCrae
30. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Consistency paradox
Mirrors
Taxonomies
Implicit theories (personality)
31. 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
situationists
Mirrors
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Nomothetic approach
32. 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
Seymour Epstein
situationists
Type A personality
Raymond Cattell
33. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
George Kelley
Self-efficacy
Henry Murray
Costa and McCrae
34. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
William Sheldon
Henry Murray
Dispositional attribution
Learned optimism
35. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
George Kelley
Sandra Bem
Hans Eysenck
Big Five
36. 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
George Kelley
Barnum effect
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
interactionists
37. External and internal locus of control
Abraham Maslow
Julian Rotter
Learned optimism
Personality
38. Critical of personality trait theory
Learned helplessness
Cognitive prototype approach
Seymour Epstein
Henry Murray
39. 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-
Martin Seligman
Abraham Maslow
William Sheldon
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
40. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Type A personality
Raymond Cattell
Fundamental attribution error
Mesomorph
41. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Proprium or propriate function
Barnum effect
Trait hierarchy
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
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)
Dispositional attribution
Seymour Epstein
Costa and McCrae
Bem Sex Role Inventory
43. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
44. Personality changes little after age 30
Twin studies
Seymour Epstein
Consistency paradox
Costa and McCrae
45. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Lexical approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Internal locus of control
Proprium or propriate function
46. 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
Narcissism
Learned helplessness
Cognitive prototype approach
Proprium or propriate function
47. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Mesomorph
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Internal locus of control
48. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Authoritarianism
Internal locus of control
Twin studies
personal constructs
49. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Trait hierarchy
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Proprium or propriate function
Dispositional attribution
50. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Julian Rotter
Type theory
Seymour Epstein
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality