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GRE Psychology: Personality

Subjects : gre, psychology
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1. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced






2. 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-






3. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)






4. 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-






5. 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






6. Belief that one can effectively perform a task






7. 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






8. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






9. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically






10. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem






11. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






12. 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






13. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality






14. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph


15. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social






16. 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)






17. Studied Type A personality






18. Have a great need for arousal






19. 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






20. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed






21. 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)






22. External and internal locus of control






23. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences






24. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure






25. 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






26. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems






27. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations






28. Possessing both male and female qualities






29. Personality changes little after age 30






30. Characterized by drive - competitiveness - aggressiveness - tension - hostility; found - most common in middle to upper class men






31. Critical of personality trait theory






32. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'






33. 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)






34. Only circumstances determine behavior






35. 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






36. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






37. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self






38. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)






39. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing






40. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)






41. 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






42. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness






43. Learned helplessness






44. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






45. 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






46. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience






47. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






48. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame






49. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics






50. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual