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GRE Psychology: Personality

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1. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory






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






3. Studied Type A personality






4. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior






5. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics






6. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






7. Belief that one can effectively perform a task






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






9. 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






10. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






11. Cognitive prototype approach






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






13. Possessing both male and female qualities






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations






18. 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






19. 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)






20. 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






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






22. Personality changes little after age 30






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






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






25. 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-






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






27. 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)






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






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






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






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


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






33. 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






34. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist






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






36. Have a great need for arousal






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






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






39. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






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






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






42. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






43. External and internal locus of control






44. 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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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