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GRE Psychology: Personality

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






2. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings






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






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






5. 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)






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






7. 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






8. Critical of personality trait theory






9. Learned helplessness






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. Cognitive prototype approach






16. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations






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






18. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive






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






20. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary






21. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality






22. 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






23. 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-






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






25. Studied Type A personality






26. Hierarchy of needs






27. 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)






28. 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-






29. People who emphasize internal determinants of behavior






30. 1) dispositionist 2) situationist 3) interactionists






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. External and internal locus of control






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






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






37. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)






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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics






44. Somatotypes personality theory






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






46. 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






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






48. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour






49. Possessing both male and female qualities






50. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist