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GRE Psychology: Personality

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






2. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts






3. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual






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






5. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior






6. 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






7. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






8. Somatotypes personality theory






9. Cognitive prototype approach






10. 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






11. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations






12. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing






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






14. Critical of personality trait theory






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






16. 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)






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






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






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






20. Studied Type A personality






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






22. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






23. 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






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






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






26. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory






27. 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-






28. 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






29. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






30. Learned helplessness






31. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






32. 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






33. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences






34. Belief that one can effectively perform a task






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






36. External and internal locus of control






37. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed






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






39. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)






40. 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)






41. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph


42. 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






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






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






45. 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-






46. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social






47. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






48. 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






49. Personality changes little after age 30






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