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