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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
Self-esteem
Alice Eagly
Phrenology
Nomothetic approach
2. Possessing both male and female qualities
Alice Eagly
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Personality tests (2 types)
Androgynous
3. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men
Self-esteem
Authoritarianism
Type A personality
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
4. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Trait hierarchy
Self-efficacy
Narcissism
5. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Endomorph
Idiographic approach
Alice Eagly
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
6. 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-
Kay Deaux
Self-consciousness
Mesomorph
Grant Dahlstrom
7. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Consistency paradox
dispositionist
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
8. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Self-monitoring
Type theory
3 personality theories
9. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
Big Five
Personality tests (2 types)
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
External locus of control
10. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Phenomenological view (personality)
Proprium or propriate function
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
11. 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
Mirrors
Consistency paradox
Cognitive prototype approach
12. Critical of personality trait theory
Proprium or propriate function
Seymour Epstein
Dispositional attribution
Narcissism
13. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)
Lexical approach
Henry Murray
Trait hierarchy
interactionists
14. Have a great need for arousal
Kay Deaux
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Gordon Allport
Implicit theories (personality)
15. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Endomorph
Self-awareness
Nomothetic approach
Idiographic approach
16. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Sandra Bem
Phrenology
Seymour Epstein
Martin Seligman
17. 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-
Raymond Cattell
Type A personality
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Self-efficacy
18. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Big Five
George Kelley
Costa and McCrae
Henry Murray
19. 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
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Twin studies
Self-awareness
Personality
20. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Grant Dahlstrom
Personality tests (2 types)
Internal locus of control
Ectomorph
21. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Narcissism
Proprium or propriate function
Big Five
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
22. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
personal constructs
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Barnum effect
3 personality theories
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
Big Five
Grant Dahlstrom
Gordon Allport
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
24. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Self-esteem
Self-handicapping
Consistency paradox
25. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Authoritarianism
Raymond Cattell
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
26. Only circumstances determine behavior
interactionists
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
situationists
Type theory
27. Hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Self-monitoring
Implicit theories (personality)
28. Personality changes little after age 30
Idiographic approach
Nomothetic approach
Costa and McCrae
Henry Murray
29. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Endomorph
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Internal locus of control
situationists
30. 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
Raymond Cattell
Self-handicapping
Stimulus-seeking individuals
3 personality theories
31. 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
Julian Rotter
Endomorph
Phrenology
32. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
33. 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
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Idiographic approach
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Authoritarianism
34. 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
3 personality theories
Big Five
interactionists
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
35. Somatotypes personality theory
William Sheldon
Lexical approach
George Kelley
Fundamental attribution error
36. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Self-handicapping
Androgynous
Alice Eagly
Self-efficacy
37. 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
Lexical approach
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Type theory
38. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Big Five
Androgynous
Taxonomies
Cognitive prototype approach
39. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Self-monitoring
situationists
dispositionist
Personality
40. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Gordon Allport
Martin Seligman
Consistency paradox
Self-esteem
41. 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
Mirrors
Implicit theories (personality)
Phrenology
42. 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
Martin Seligman
Sandra Bem
Cognitive prototype approach
Self-handicapping
43. Cognitive prototype approach
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Seymour Epstein
interactionists
situationists
44. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Personality
Self-efficacy
Fundamental attribution error
Self-consciousness
45. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Julian Rotter
Seymour Epstein
Self-awareness
Proprium or propriate function
46. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Mesomorph
Self-consciousness
personal constructs
47. External and internal locus of control
Alice Eagly
Seymour Epstein
Julian Rotter
Implicit theories (personality)
48. Studied Type A personality
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
External locus of control
Twin studies
49. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Mesomorph
Phrenology
50. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Twin studies
interactionists
situationists
Henry Murray