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GRE Psychology: Personality

Subjects : gre, psychology
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1. External and internal locus of control






2. Possessing both male and female qualities






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






4. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality






5. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently






6. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






7. At the top a cardinal trait (always consistent) - then central traits - then secondary traits (may conflict)






8. Cognitive prototype approach






9. Cognitive training against learned helplessness






10. Personality changes little after age 30






11. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual






12. Studied Type A personality






13. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics






14. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences






15. 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-






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


17. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. Hierarchy of needs






22. 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






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)






24. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






25. Possibility that a person may behave inconsistently - presents problems for labelling people as one internal disposition






26. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations






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






28. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes






29. Have a great need for arousal






30. 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-






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






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






33. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






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






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






40. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)






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. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person






43. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






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






45. 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






46. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior






47. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced






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






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






50. Androgynous individuals have higher self-esteem - lower anxiety - more adaptability than their highly masculine or feminine counterparts