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GRE Psychology: Personality

Subjects : gre, psychology
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1. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts






2. Hierarchy of needs






3. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual






4. Personality changes little after age 30






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






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






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






8. Cognitive prototype approach






9. 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






10. Learned helplessness






11. Studied Type A personality






12. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)






13. 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-






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






15. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences






16. 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-






17. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






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






19. Critical of personality trait theory






20. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






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






22. 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






23. 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)






24. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently






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






26. Belief that one can effectively perform a task






27. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






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






29. External and internal locus of control






30. 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)






31. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience






32. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior






33. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






34. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






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






36. 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






37. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced






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






39. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self






40. Have a great need for arousal






41. 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






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


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






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






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






46. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






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






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






49. 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






50. 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