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