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GRE Psychology: Personality

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






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






3. 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






4. Hierarchy of needs






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






6. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual






7. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






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






9. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






10. 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






11. 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






12. 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)






13. Learned helplessness






14. 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-






15. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)






16. 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






17. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently






18. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically






19. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'






20. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure






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






22. Critical of personality trait theory






23. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men






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






25. External and internal locus of control






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






27. Cognitive prototype approach






28. 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






29. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






30. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






31. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame






32. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics






33. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition






34. 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






35. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






36. Only circumstances determine behavior






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






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






39. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality






40. Possessing both male and female qualities






41. Have a great need for arousal






42. 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






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






44. 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)






45. 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






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






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






48. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations






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






50. Somatotypes personality theory