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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Lexical approach
Trait hierarchy
Personality
2. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
3. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
External locus of control
Cognitive prototype approach
dispositionist
Fundamental attribution error
4. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Grant Dahlstrom
Phenomenological view (personality)
Twin studies
5. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Consistency paradox
Self-awareness
Seymour Epstein
Implicit theories (personality)
6. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Personality tests (2 types)
External locus of control
Implicit theories (personality)
Fundamental attribution error
7. 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
Raymond Cattell
3 personality theories
situationists
Self-efficacy
8. 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
personal constructs
interactionists
Big Five
situationists
9. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Taxonomies
Hans Eysenck
10. Learned helplessness
Personality tests (2 types)
Bem Sex Role Inventory
situationists
Martin Seligman
11. 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
Cognitive prototype approach
Mesomorph
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Mirrors
12. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Mesomorph
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Barnum effect
Sandra Bem
13. Somatotypes personality theory
William Sheldon
trait
Fundamental attribution error
Alice Eagly
14. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Authoritarianism
Self-consciousness
Learned optimism
Raymond Cattell
15. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Personality
interactionists
Trait hierarchy
Martin Seligman
16. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Endomorph
Julian Rotter
Type A personality
Internal locus of control
17. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Androgynous
Gordon Allport
Consistency paradox
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
18. 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-
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
External locus of control
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Self-handicapping
19. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
Self-esteem
3 personality theories
Learned optimism
Alice Eagly
20. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Nomothetic approach
Mesomorph
Abraham Maslow
personal constructs
21. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
situationists
trait
Narcissism
Mesomorph
22. 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)
Fundamental attribution error
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Gordon Allport
Learned optimism
23. Personality changes little after age 30
Mesomorph
Alice Eagly
Cognitive prototype approach
Costa and McCrae
24. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Twin studies
Sandra Bem
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Matina Horner
25. 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
Implicit theories (personality)
Phenomenological view (personality)
Martin Seligman
Mirrors
26. External and internal locus of control
Julian Rotter
trait
Kay Deaux
Cognitive prototype approach
27. 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
3 personality theories
Cognitive prototype approach
Phrenology
28. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Self-handicapping
Idiographic approach
Alice Eagly
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
29. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Self-efficacy
Personality
Nomothetic approach
30. Cognitive prototype approach
Martin Seligman
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Self-esteem
Twin studies
31. 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
Phrenology
Gordon Allport
Implicit theories (personality)
Trait hierarchy
32. Only circumstances determine behavior
situationists
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Twin studies
Self-efficacy
33. 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
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Implicit theories (personality)
Hans Eysenck
34. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
George Kelley
Twin studies
Self-monitoring
Barnum effect
35. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Self-awareness
Abraham Maslow
Seymour Epstein
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
36. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
George Kelley
External locus of control
Personality
Personality tests (2 types)
37. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Androgynous
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
38. Studied Type A personality
Big Five
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Proprium or propriate function
Personality
39. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Phrenology
dispositionist
Idiographic approach
40. 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
Taxonomies
Abraham Maslow
Kay Deaux
Twin studies
41. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Gordon Allport
Alice Eagly
Henry Murray
Abraham Maslow
42. Hierarchy of needs
Narcissism
Implicit theories (personality)
Abraham Maslow
Self-monitoring
43. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Learned optimism
Gender and depression
Martin Seligman
Idiographic approach
44. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Sandra Bem
Raymond Cattell
Personality
45. 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
Personality tests (2 types)
Authoritarianism
Mirrors
Alice Eagly
46. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
3 personality theories
Self-esteem
Seymour Epstein
Twin studies
47. 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-
Seymour Epstein
Consistency paradox
Matina Horner
Kay Deaux
48. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Barnum effect
situationists
Seymour Epstein
Abraham Maslow
49. Have a great need for arousal
Abraham Maslow
Consistency paradox
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Self-awareness
50. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Gender and depression
Phrenology
Raymond Cattell