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GRE Psychology: Personality

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1. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality






2. 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






3. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






4. 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






5. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness






6. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts






7. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)






8. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem






9. 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






10. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced






11. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)






12. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes






13. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory






14. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations






15. External and internal locus of control






16. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed






17. Critical of personality trait theory






18. 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)






19. 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-






20. Studied Type A personality






21. Cognitive prototype approach






22. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person






23. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience






24. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems






25. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing






26. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations






27. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)






28. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics






29. 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






30. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






31. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist






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






33. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self






34. Somatotypes personality theory






35. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






36. 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






37. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings






38. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






39. Have a great need for arousal






40. Learned helplessness






41. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






42. Personality changes little after age 30






43. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph


44. Only circumstances determine behavior






45. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual






46. 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






47. 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)






48. 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-






49. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social






50. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality