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GRE Psychology: Personality

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1. Learned helplessness






2. Hierarchy of needs






3. 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






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






5. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual






6. 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






7. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






8. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences






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






10. 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)






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






12. External and internal locus of control






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






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






15. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory






16. Somatotypes personality theory






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






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






19. Have a great need for arousal






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






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






22. 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






23. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






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






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






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






27. Studied Type A personality






28. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations






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-






30. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






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






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






33. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






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






35. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






36. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics






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






38. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






39. 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)






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically






44. Cognitive prototype approach






45. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






46. Personality changes little after age 30






47. Critical of personality trait theory






48. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)






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






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