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