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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
personal constructs
Type theory
Implicit theories (personality)
Type A personality
2. 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)
Fundamental attribution error
Barnum effect
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Gordon Allport
3. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Learned optimism
Trait hierarchy
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Barnum effect
4. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Idiographic approach
Self-consciousness
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Trait hierarchy
5. Learned helplessness
personal constructs
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
6. 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
Twin studies
Taxonomies
George Kelley
7. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Phenomenological view (personality)
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Self-monitoring
Consistency paradox
8. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
Seymour Epstein
Matina Horner
Lexical approach
Twin studies
9. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Phrenology
Henry Murray
Consistency paradox
situationists
10. External and internal locus of control
Mesomorph
Type A personality
Julian Rotter
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
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
Barnum effect
Gender and depression
Authoritarianism
Raymond Cattell
12. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Endomorph
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
interactionists
Costa and McCrae
13. Sheldon - Somatotypes' short - plump means pleasure-seeking - social
Dispositional attribution
Endomorph
Gordon Allport
Mesomorph
14. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Self-esteem
Sandra Bem
Consistency paradox
Taxonomies
15. Somatotypes personality theory
William Sheldon
Kay Deaux
3 personality theories
dispositionist
16. Have a great need for arousal
Phenomenological view (personality)
Barnum effect
dispositionist
Stimulus-seeking individuals
17. Linked Type A personality to heart disease and other health problems
Barnum effect
Seymour Epstein
Grant Dahlstrom
Personality
18. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Proprium or propriate function
Phenomenological view (personality)
Phrenology
Gender and depression
19. 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
Barnum effect
Ectomorph
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Authoritarianism
20. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Barnum effect
Self-consciousness
Personality
21. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed
Gender and depression
Proprium or propriate function
Learned optimism
Kay Deaux
22. 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
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Self-efficacy
Fundamental attribution error
Hans Eysenck
23. 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
Type theory
dispositionist
Androgynous
Learned helplessness
24. Critical of personality trait theory
interactionists
Narcissism
Seymour Epstein
Personality tests (2 types)
25. A state; temporary condition of being aware of how you are thinking - feeling or doing
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Learned helplessness
Fundamental attribution error
Self-awareness
26. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Phenomenological view (personality)
Personality
Dispositional attribution
dispositionist
27. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Barnum effect
George Kelley
situationists
Bem Sex Role Inventory
28. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists
Cognitive prototype approach
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
3 personality theories
Personality
29. Hierarchy of needs
Costa and McCrae
Abraham Maslow
Type theory
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
30. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Trait hierarchy
Barnum effect
Type theory
31. 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)
Self-consciousness
Twin studies
Dispositional attribution
Internal locus of control
32. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Gender and depression
Consistency paradox
Personality tests (2 types)
Type A personality
33. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Proprium or propriate function
interactionists
Costa and McCrae
34. Personality changes little after age 30
Internal locus of control
Raymond Cattell
Costa and McCrae
Learned optimism
35. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations
Kay Deaux
Personality tests (2 types)
Lexical approach
personal constructs
36. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Self-monitoring
trait
Bem Sex Role Inventory
37. 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
Androgynous
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Twin studies
Learned optimism
38. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
39. Cognitive prototype approach
Type theory
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Learned optimism
40. 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
Personality
Julian Rotter
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
41. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Sandra Bem
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Internal locus of control
42. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior
Self-consciousness
External locus of control
Alice Eagly
dispositionist
43. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
External locus of control
Androgynous
Self-handicapping
Abraham Maslow
44. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Ectomorph
Endomorph
Dispositional attribution
trait
45. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition
Consistency paradox
Julian Rotter
Lexical approach
Matina Horner
46. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Self-handicapping
Kay Deaux
Matina Horner
Type theory
47. 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-
Self-efficacy
William Sheldon
Androgynous
Kay Deaux
48. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Type theory
Personality tests (2 types)
3 personality theories
Self-efficacy
49. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Learned helplessness
Androgynous
Henry Murray
50. Possessing both male and female qualities
Ectomorph
Phrenology
Androgynous
Gordon Allport