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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Hierarchy of needs
Self-monitoring
Abraham Maslow
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Gordon Allport
2. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Barnum effect
Personality tests (2 types)
Type theory
Learned helplessness
3. Possessing both male and female qualities
Self-monitoring
Androgynous
Phrenology
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
4. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Androgynous
Idiographic approach
George Kelley
William Sheldon
5. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Cognitive prototype approach
Mesomorph
Gordon Allport
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
6. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Phenomenological view (personality)
Self-efficacy
Barnum effect
Twin studies
7. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Dispositional attribution
Self-handicapping
Lexical approach
Personality tests (2 types)
8. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Gordon Allport
interactionists
Implicit theories (personality)
Seymour Epstein
9. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Barnum effect
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Consistency paradox
Self-awareness
10. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Type A personality
Self-awareness
Self-handicapping
11. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Self-consciousness
External locus of control
Seymour Epstein
Gender and depression
12. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
George Kelley
Personality tests (2 types)
Fundamental attribution error
13. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Nomothetic approach
Learned optimism
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Personality
14. 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
Cognitive prototype approach
Seymour Epstein
George Kelley
Proprium or propriate function
15. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Self-consciousness
personal constructs
William Sheldon
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
16. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Trait hierarchy
External locus of control
Cognitive prototype approach
Nomothetic approach
17. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Learned optimism
dispositionist
Proprium or propriate function
Julian Rotter
18. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Authoritarianism
Big Five
Internal locus of control
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
19. 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
Taxonomies
Androgynous
Costa and McCrae
Mirrors
20. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Type A personality
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Gender and depression
Self-efficacy
21. 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
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Abraham Maslow
Gordon Allport
Big Five
22. 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
personal constructs
Raymond Cattell
3 personality theories
George Kelley
23. 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)
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Dispositional attribution
Kay Deaux
Ectomorph
24. Studied Type A personality
3 personality theories
Self-consciousness
Learned helplessness
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
25. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
situationists
External locus of control
trait
Type A personality
26. Learned helplessness
Type theory
Martin Seligman
Big Five
Implicit theories (personality)
27. Only circumstances determine behavior
Consistency paradox
personal constructs
3 personality theories
situationists
28. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Narcissism
Endomorph
Consistency paradox
3 personality theories
29. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Taxonomies
Phenomenological view (personality)
Barnum effect
30. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Self-esteem
Type theory
Phrenology
Seymour Epstein
31. 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
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Authoritarianism
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
32. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Barnum effect
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Self-esteem
Type A personality
33. Somatotypes personality theory
Mesomorph
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Taxonomies
William Sheldon
34. 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
dispositionist
Self-monitoring
Nomothetic approach
35. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
personal constructs
Self-awareness
Fundamental attribution error
36. 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
Gordon Allport
Internal locus of control
Alice Eagly
37. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
Proprium or propriate function
Cognitive prototype approach
Henry Murray
3 personality theories
38. 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)
Barnum effect
situationists
Matina Horner
Alice Eagly
39. Cognitive prototype approach
Self-handicapping
Abraham Maslow
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
40. External and internal locus of control
External locus of control
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Julian Rotter
Self-handicapping
41. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Trait hierarchy
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Personality tests (2 types)
William Sheldon
42. Have a great need for arousal
Proprium or propriate function
Gender and depression
Self-consciousness
Stimulus-seeking individuals
43. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Self-consciousness
Gordon Allport
situationists
Phrenology
44. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)
Trait hierarchy
Self-efficacy
Mirrors
Phenomenological view (personality)
45. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Lexical approach
Sandra Bem
Mesomorph
Alice Eagly
46. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
personal constructs
External locus of control
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Big Five
47. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Sandra Bem
Personality
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
dispositionist
48. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Authoritarianism
Endomorph
Implicit theories (personality)
49. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Twin studies
Henry Murray
Androgynous
Stimulus-seeking individuals
50. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph