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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. 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)
Grant Dahlstrom
Raymond Cattell
Costa and McCrae
Fundamental attribution error
2. Ambiguous story cards - people project own 'needs'
Alice Eagly
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Personality tests (2 types)
dispositionist
3. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations
Ectomorph
interactionists
Proprium or propriate function
External locus of control
4. Critical of personality trait theory
Lexical approach
Fundamental attribution error
Type theory
Seymour Epstein
5. Have a great need for arousal
Stimulus-seeking individuals
interactionists
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Kay Deaux
6. Muscular - athletic means energetic - aggressive
dispositionist
Abraham Maslow
Mesomorph
Self-monitoring
7. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Personality
Taxonomies
Matina Horner
8. Studies androgyny; created Bem Sex Role Inventory
Phrenology
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Dispositional attribution
Sandra Bem
9. Hierarchy of needs
Grant Dahlstrom
Abraham Maslow
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
Learned helplessness
10. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual
Trait hierarchy
Consistency paradox
Ectomorph
Abraham Maslow
11. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality
Self-handicapping
Nomothetic approach
Sandra Bem
Barnum effect
12. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience
3 personality theories
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Proprium or propriate function
Narcissism
13. Sheldon; personality based on body types - three physiques and corresponding personality types: endomorph - mesomorph - ectomorph
14. Cognitive training against learned helplessness
Hans Eysenck
William Sheldon
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Learned optimism
15. A trait; how often one generally becomes self-aware; very - if you pay a lot of attention to your self
Hans Eysenck
Proprium or propriate function
Self-consciousness
External locus of control
16. Capture individual'S unique - defining characteristics
Idiographic approach
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
William Sheldon
Fundamental attribution error
17. Practice of examining head and skull shape to discern personality
Gordon Allport
Self-consciousness
Phrenology
Self-handicapping
18. 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-
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Kay Deaux
Phenomenological view (personality)
Mesomorph
19. Personal constructs determine personality and behaviour
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
Cognitive prototype approach
Androgynous
George Kelley
20. Belief that one can effectively perform a task
Big Five
Self-efficacy
Raymond Cattell
Abraham Maslow
21. Tendency to agree with and accept provided personality interpretations
Proprium or propriate function
Hans Eysenck
Barnum effect
Endomorph
22. 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
Endomorph
Idiographic approach
Consistency paradox
23. Personality changes little after age 30
Costa and McCrae
William Sheldon
Martin Seligman
situationists
24. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)
Henry Murray
Personality tests (2 types)
Lexical approach
Bem Sex Role Inventory
25. External and internal locus of control
Learned optimism
Mirrors
Sandra Bem
Julian Rotter
26. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person
Big Five
Learned helplessness
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Implicit theories (personality)
27. 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
Julian Rotter
Henry Murray
Cognitive prototype approach
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
28. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame
Learned optimism
Seymour Epstein
Consistency paradox
Internal locus of control
29. Focuses on individual'S unique self and experiences
Cognitive prototype approach
Nomothetic approach
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Phenomenological view (personality)
30. Somatotypes personality theory
Gender and depression
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Narcissism
William Sheldon
31. Relatively stable characteristics of behavior that a person exhibits (trait is stable - state is more of temporary feeling or characteristics)
Trait hierarchy
Costa and McCrae
trait
Matina Horner
32. Many argue that there is no true gender differences - children are reinforced for stereotypical behaviors - prevailing pov -> interactionist
Personality tests (2 types)
situationists
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Nature-nurture debate in terms of personality
33. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure
Self-handicapping
Implicit theories (personality)
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
34. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Henry Murray
Learned helplessness
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Implicit theories (personality)
35. 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
Big Five
Narcissism
Nomothetic approach
Martin Seligman
36. Picking all possible traits out of dictionary
External locus of control
George Kelley
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
Lexical approach
37. Only circumstances determine behavior
Abraham Maslow
Consistency paradox
Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenmean
situationists
38. 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
External locus of control
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Barnum effect
Hans Eysenck
39. 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)
Proprium or propriate function
dispositionist
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Matina Horner
40. Scrutiny of own behaviour - motivation to act appropriately rather than honestly - ability to mask true feelings
Androgynous
Self-monitoring
Self-consciousness
Narcissism
41. 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-
Type theory
Alfred Adler (personality typology; +types)
Seymour Epstein and Walter Mischel
3 personality theories
42. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as result of luck or fate; too much breeds helplessness
Sandra Bem
Twin studies
Narcissism
External locus of control
43. 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
Learned optimism
Idiographic approach
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Taxonomies
44. The study of why people act the way that they do and why different people act differently
Learned helplessness
Fundamental attribution error
Personality
Alice Eagly
45. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically
Self-esteem
Fundamental attribution error
Implicit theories (personality)
Mirrors
46. Found interaction between gender and social status - how easily an individual might be influenced
3 personality theories
Stimulus-seeking individuals
Raymond Cattell
Alice Eagly
47. Originally dominated personality theory (Hippocrates) - many placed into type categories based on physical appearance; including using phrenology and somatotypes
Type theory
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Somatotypes (personality theory' +types)
Idiographic approach
48. 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)
Mirrors
Bem Sex Role Inventory
Endomorph
Dispositional attribution
49. Possessing both male and female qualities
Walter Mischel and Nancy Cantor
Androgynous
Proprium or propriate function
3 personality theories
50. Believing you are better than you are or look better than you do; unrealistic self-esteem
Gender and depression
Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin
Sandra Bem
Narcissism