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