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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. 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)
Matina Horner
Phenomenological view (personality)
Self-handicapping
Fundamental attribution error
2. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
interactionists
Costa and McCrae
Grant Dahlstrom
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
3. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Personality
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Self-efficacy
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
4. Have a great need for arousal
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Self-consciousness
Cognitive prototype approach
Androgynous
5. 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)
Endomorph
Self-handicapping
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Dispositional attribution
6. Only circumstances determine behavior
Self-monitoring
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
trait
situationists
7. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Matina Horner
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Self-monitoring
Grant Dahlstrom
8. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Dispositional attribution
Lexical approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
3 personality theories
9. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Self-monitoring
Idiographic approach
trait
Hans Eysenck
10. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Kay Deaux
Alice Eagly
William Sheldon
Self-efficacy
11. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Self-monitoring
Hans Eysenck
Twin studies
Self-awareness
12. Somatotypes personality theory
Fundamental attribution error
situationists
William Sheldon
Proprium or propriate function
13. Learned helplessness
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Martin Seligman
Dispositional attribution
Self-monitoring
14. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Self-esteem
Alice Eagly
Henry Murray
Type theory
15. 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
dispositionist
Gordon Allport
Seymour Epstein
Personality tests (2 types)
16. 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
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
17. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
3 personality theories
Cognitive prototype approach
External locus of control
Self-handicapping
18. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Endomorph
interactionists
Phenomenological view (personality)
Barnum effect
19. 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)
Martin Seligman
Fundamental attribution error
Type A personality
Self-efficacy
20. 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
Self-monitoring
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Henry Murray
21. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Self-monitoring
Personality
trait
Type A personality
22. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
Grant Dahlstrom
Seymour Epstein
Mesomorph
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
23. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Ectomorph
Seymour Epstein
Learned optimism
Twin studies
24. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
interactionists
Internal locus of control
3 personality theories
Proprium or propriate function
25. Cognitive prototype approach
Consistency paradox
Idiographic approach
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Costa and McCrae
26. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Sandra Bem
Personality tests (2 types)
Endomorph
Self-awareness
27. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
dispositionist
Gender and depression
personal constructs
28. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Raymond Cattell
Learned optimism
Henry Murray
Seymour Epstein
29. 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-
personal constructs
Seymour Epstein
Kay Deaux
Gordon Allport
30. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Dispositional attribution
Proprium or propriate function
William Sheldon
Endomorph
31. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Internal locus of control
External locus of control
Gordon Allport
32. External and internal locus of control
Julian Rotter
Authoritarianism
dispositionist
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
33. Possessing both male and female qualities
Lexical approach
Self-efficacy
Androgynous
Costa and McCrae
34. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
dispositionist
Gordon Allport
Matina Horner
Taxonomies
35. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
36. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
Julian Rotter
Personality
Proprium or propriate function
Type A personality
37. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Learned optimism
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Self-consciousness
Authoritarianism
38. Hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow
trait
Androgynous
Type A personality
39. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
trait
Self-handicapping
William Sheldon
Implicit theories (personality)
40. 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-
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Endomorph
Taxonomies
Abraham Maslow
41. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Costa and McCrae
Personality
Henry Murray
Trait hierarchy
42. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
George Kelley
Internal locus of control
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Grant Dahlstrom
43. Personality changes little after age 30
Phrenology
Barnum effect
Costa and McCrae
Implicit theories (personality)
44. 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
situationists
Sandra Bem
Lexical approach
Twin studies
45. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Abraham Maslow
Cognitive prototype approach
interactionists
Seymour Epstein
46. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Hans Eysenck
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Phrenology
Proprium or propriate function
47. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Big Five
Implicit theories (personality)
situationists
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
48. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Taxonomies
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Julian Rotter
Barnum effect
49. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Gender and depression
Implicit theories (personality)
Mesomorph
dispositionist
50. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Raymond Cattell
Gordon Allport
Grant Dahlstrom
Taxonomies