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