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