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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)
Narcissism
Self-monitoring
trait
Raymond Cattell
2. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Personality tests (2 types)
trait
personal constructs
Phenomenological view (personality)
3. Possessing both male and female qualities
Fundamental attribution error
Self-efficacy
George Kelley
Androgynous
4. 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)
Matina Horner
Implicit theories (personality)
Endomorph
Personality tests (2 types)
5. Hierarchy of needs
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
3 personality theories
Dispositional attribution
Abraham Maslow
6. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Type theory
Self-esteem
Gender and depression
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
7. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Self-efficacy
Proprium or propriate function
Personality
Gender and depression
8. 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
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Mirrors
situationists
Taxonomies
9. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
interactionists
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Endomorph
Martin Seligman
10. 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-handicapping
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Personality tests (2 types)
Phrenology
11. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
dispositionist
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Implicit theories (personality)
Learned helplessness
12. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Lexical approach
Abraham Maslow
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Dispositional attribution
13. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Self-awareness
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Taxonomies
Type A personality
14. External and internal locus of control
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Julian Rotter
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
15. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Narcissism
Self-awareness
dispositionist
Self-esteem
16. 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
Self-awareness
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Grant Dahlstrom
17. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Fundamental attribution error
Costa and McCrae
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Mesomorph
18. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Idiographic approach
Fundamental attribution error
Self-esteem
Learned optimism
19. Personality changes little after age 30
Androgynous
Proprium or propriate function
Type A personality
Costa and McCrae
20. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Martin Seligman
Phenomenological view (personality)
Type theory
Bem Sex Role Inventory
21. 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)
Ectomorph
Stimulus-seeking individuals
situationists
22. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Gordon Allport
Seymour Epstein
Ectomorph
Personality tests (2 types)
23. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
trait
Phrenology
personal constructs
Gender and depression
24. 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-
Gender and depression
Mesomorph
Kay Deaux
Martin Seligman
25. Have a great need for arousal
Phenomenological view (personality)
Martin Seligman
Proprium or propriate function
Stimulus-seeking individuals
26. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Consistency paradox
Idiographic approach
Hans Eysenck
Phrenology
27. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Learned optimism
William Sheldon
Personality
28. Critical of personality trait theory
trait
Idiographic approach
Phrenology
Seymour Epstein
29. Studied Type A personality
Self-handicapping
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
George Kelley
Self-awareness
30. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Self-efficacy
Barnum effect
Cognitive prototype approach
Type A personality
31. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Internal locus of control
Gender and depression
Consistency paradox
Kay Deaux
32. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Consistency paradox
Internal locus of control
Type A personality
33. Cognitive prototype approach
Learned optimism
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Authoritarianism
Matina Horner
34. Only circumstances determine behavior
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
situationists
Grant Dahlstrom
dispositionist
35. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Raymond Cattell
Alice Eagly
Self-efficacy
Learned helplessness
36. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
personal constructs
Costa and McCrae
Self-efficacy
Gordon Allport
37. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Costa and McCrae
Nomothetic approach
Gender and depression
Learned helplessness
38. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
trait
Abraham Maslow
Self-monitoring
Gordon Allport
39. 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
Big Five
Ectomorph
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
George Kelley
40. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Personality tests (2 types)
Mesomorph
Sandra Bem
Endomorph
41. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Raymond Cattell
Fundamental attribution error
Personality tests (2 types)
Self-consciousness
42. 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
Authoritarianism
Hans Eysenck
Martin Seligman
Self-consciousness
43. 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
Barnum effect
personal constructs
Cognitive prototype approach
44. Learned helplessness
Androgynous
Self-consciousness
Martin Seligman
Consistency paradox
45. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Self-awareness
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Kay Deaux
Julian Rotter
46. Somatotypes personality theory
Proprium or propriate function
Type A personality
William Sheldon
Phrenology
47. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Implicit theories (personality)
Personality
Mesomorph
48. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
Costa and McCrae
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Consistency paradox
3 personality theories
49. 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
Matina Horner
Hans Eysenck
3 personality theories
Martin Seligman
50. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Cognitive prototype approach
Phenomenological view (personality)
Grant Dahlstrom
Type theory