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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Self-esteem
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Type theory
Personality
2. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Phrenology
Gordon Allport
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Nomothetic approach
3. Cognitive prototype approach
Idiographic approach
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Self-handicapping
Dispositional attribution
4. 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
Personality tests (2 types)
Self-efficacy
Martin Seligman
Twin studies
5. 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
Authoritarianism
Barnum effect
Trait hierarchy
Personality tests (2 types)
6. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Self-efficacy
Type theory
Proprium or propriate function
dispositionist
7. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Self-monitoring
Learned optimism
Abraham Maslow
Costa and McCrae
8. 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
Self-awareness
Self-consciousness
Type theory
Learned helplessness
9. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Ectomorph
Self-efficacy
Nomothetic approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
10. Somatotypes personality theory
Dispositional attribution
Consistency paradox
William Sheldon
Type theory
11. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Trait hierarchy
William Sheldon
Mesomorph
trait
12. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
interactionists
Martin Seligman
Fundamental attribution error
Learned helplessness
13. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Raymond Cattell
Mesomorph
Gordon Allport
Type theory
14. Learned helplessness
Trait hierarchy
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Abraham Maslow
Martin Seligman
15. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Barnum effect
Self-awareness
Lexical approach
Self-consciousness
16. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Narcissism
Raymond Cattell
Julian Rotter
George Kelley
17. 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
Authoritarianism
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Self-efficacy
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
18. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)
Self-monitoring
dispositionist
Self-awareness
Trait hierarchy
19. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Proprium or propriate function
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Authoritarianism
Bem Sex Role Inventory
20. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Lexical approach
Mirrors
Hans Eysenck
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
21. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Taxonomies
Trait hierarchy
Self-esteem
Henry Murray
22. 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-
Sandra Bem
Self-awareness
Raymond Cattell
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
23. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Personality
Big Five
24. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Hans Eysenck
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Idiographic approach
25. External and internal locus of control
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
3 personality theories
Julian Rotter
Big Five
26. Critical of personality trait theory
Trait hierarchy
Proprium or propriate function
Seymour Epstein
External locus of control
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-
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Kay Deaux
Matina Horner
dispositionist
28. Hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow
trait
Matina Horner
Martin Seligman
29. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Gender and depression
Self-esteem
Phrenology
Mirrors
30. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
31. 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)
situationists
Twin studies
Kay Deaux
Matina Horner
32. 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
Grant Dahlstrom
Julian Rotter
Matina Horner
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
33. Only circumstances determine behavior
Self-consciousness
Martin Seligman
situationists
Consistency paradox
34. 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
Hans Eysenck
Dispositional attribution
Julian Rotter
personal constructs
35. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Type A personality
Implicit theories (personality)
36. 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
3 personality theories
Mirrors
Internal locus of control
Sandra Bem
37. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Grant Dahlstrom
Consistency paradox
Hans Eysenck
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
38. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Ectomorph
Authoritarianism
Martin Seligman
Fundamental attribution error
39. Studied Type A personality
interactionists
Matina Horner
Personality tests (2 types)
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
40. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
personal constructs
Self-efficacy
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
situationists
41. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
Raymond Cattell
Self-monitoring
Cognitive prototype approach
External locus of control
42. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
Kay Deaux
Costa and McCrae
Learned helplessness
3 personality theories
43. 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)
Internal locus of control
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Fundamental attribution error
Trait hierarchy
44. 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
Lexical approach
Abraham Maslow
Cognitive prototype approach
Grant Dahlstrom
45. Possessing both male and female qualities
Self-awareness
Androgynous
Phrenology
Internal locus of control
46. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Cognitive prototype approach
Endomorph
Self-efficacy
Matina Horner
47. 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)
Dispositional attribution
Self-consciousness
Endomorph
Taxonomies
48. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Type A personality
Phrenology
Proprium or propriate function
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
49. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Self-consciousness
Narcissism
Lexical approach
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
50. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Fundamental attribution error
Sandra Bem
Barnum effect
dispositionist