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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Personality changes little after age 30
Hans Eysenck
Internal locus of control
Seymour Epstein
Costa and McCrae
2. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Self-awareness
Self-consciousness
Gordon Allport
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
3. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Learned helplessness
personal constructs
Costa and McCrae
Self-awareness
4. Cognitive prototype approach
Self-monitoring
Authoritarianism
3 personality theories
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
5. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Mirrors
Ectomorph
trait
Learned optimism
6. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Self-consciousness
Ectomorph
Endomorph
Type A personality
7. 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
3 personality theories
Learned helplessness
Sandra Bem
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
8. 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
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Phenomenological view (personality)
George Kelley
9. 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
Ectomorph
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Self-esteem
Raymond Cattell
10. Studied Type A personality
William Sheldon
dispositionist
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Proprium or propriate function
11. 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
Cognitive prototype approach
Narcissism
dispositionist
Big Five
12. Learned helplessness
dispositionist
interactionists
External locus of control
Martin Seligman
13. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Self-efficacy
Consistency paradox
Hans Eysenck
trait
14. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Personality
Taxonomies
Gender and depression
Big Five
15. 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-
Personality tests (2 types)
Kay Deaux
interactionists
Taxonomies
16. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Personality
Self-esteem
dispositionist
Kay Deaux
17. 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)
Matina Horner
Lexical approach
Fundamental attribution error
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
18. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Barnum effect
Taxonomies
Self-awareness
Matina Horner
19. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
William Sheldon
Phenomenological view (personality)
Alice Eagly
Learned helplessness
20. Critical of personality trait theory
Self-monitoring
Alice Eagly
Seymour Epstein
Endomorph
21. 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
Self-awareness
Henry Murray
Idiographic approach
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
22. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
3 personality theories
Cognitive prototype approach
Gender and depression
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
23. 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
Implicit theories (personality)
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Gordon Allport
24. 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
Implicit theories (personality)
Authoritarianism
Ectomorph
trait
25. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
3 personality theories
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Barnum effect
Mesomorph
26. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
William Sheldon
Trait hierarchy
Cognitive prototype approach
3 personality theories
27. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Hans Eysenck
Kay Deaux
Type A personality
dispositionist
28. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Androgynous
interactionists
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
29. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
External locus of control
Internal locus of control
Learned helplessness
Self-awareness
30. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Sandra Bem
Ectomorph
Self-esteem
31. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
George Kelley
Proprium or propriate function
Narcissism
Bem Sex Role Inventory
32. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Type theory
Phenomenological view (personality)
Implicit theories (personality)
Learned helplessness
33. 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)
Phrenology
Mirrors
Endomorph
Matina Horner
34. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Narcissism
Grant Dahlstrom
Authoritarianism
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
35. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
personal constructs
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Ectomorph
Self-efficacy
36. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Lexical approach
External locus of control
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Proprium or propriate function
37. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Big Five
Mirrors
Stimulus-seeking individuals
personal constructs
38. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Martin Seligman
Implicit theories (personality)
Lexical approach
Nomothetic approach
39. Somatotypes personality theory
Barnum effect
Type A personality
William Sheldon
Trait hierarchy
40. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
dispositionist
situationists
Raymond Cattell
Grant Dahlstrom
41. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Androgynous
Raymond Cattell
Phenomenological view (personality)
trait
42. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
George Kelley
Abraham Maslow
Internal locus of control
Bem Sex Role Inventory
43. Hierarchy of needs
Julian Rotter
Mirrors
Martin Seligman
Abraham Maslow
44. 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
Kay Deaux
Mirrors
Type A personality
Twin studies
45. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Phrenology
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Authoritarianism
Big Five
46. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
External locus of control
Proprium or propriate function
personal constructs
47. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
William Sheldon
George Kelley
situationists
Henry Murray
48. 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
Gordon Allport
Taxonomies
Matina Horner
Twin studies
49. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Nomothetic approach
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Internal locus of control
Implicit theories (personality)
50. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Julian Rotter
Self-monitoring
Personality tests (2 types)
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality