4. Personality

Question 1

What are the two types of psychological models?

Answer 1

Content models and process models

Question 2

What is level 1 of knowing a person?

Answer 2

Knowing about their general dispositions or traits

Question 3

What is level 2 of knowing a person

Answer 3

Knowing about their concerns and values

Question 4

What is level 3 of knowing a person

Answer 4

Know about how they see themselves as a person. Their life narratives.

Question 5

What is the lexical approach?

Answer 5

Checking a dictionary for adjectives that describe people and remove synonyms. Then ask people to rate themselves on these adjectives. The conduct statistical analysis to determine which adjectives go together

Question 6

What is the 5 factor model?

Answer 6

Ocean

Question 7

What is openness

Answer 7

Intellectual curiosity and independence

Question 8

What is conscientiousness

Answer 8

Organised. Persistent and dependable

Question 9

What is extra version

Answer 9

Outgoing and sociable

Question 10

What is agreeableness

Answer 10

Compassionate and trusting of others

Question 11

What is neuroticism?

Answer 11

Emotionally variable and impulsive.

Question 12

What is the dark triad of personality?

Answer 12

Personality characteristics that most people fine offe cue but not necessarily pathologically

Question 13

Psychopathy

Answer 13

Egocentrism. Superficial charm. Lacking empathy. Lacking guilt.

High o. Low c. High e. Low a. Low n

Question 14

What is narcissism

Answer 14

Love for self far stronger than love for others. Perceptions of self superiority and entitlement.

High o. High e. Low a

Question 15

What is macchiavellianism?

Answer 15

Manipulative. Deceitful. Usually for personal gain

Love c. Low a

Question 16

What are uses of the 5 factor personality model and the dark triad?

Answer 16

For employment selection and profiling criminals

Question 17

What are values?

Answer 17

Beliefs pertaining to desires goals and means. Transcend specific situations. Guide our behaviour and vary in importance.

Question 18

What are the uses of values?

Answer 18

For understanding political attitudes and behaviours

Question 19

What are life narratives?

Answer 19

Internalised stories about our past , present and future. Integrates our traits, values, concerns, dreams and personal histories.

Question 20

What are life narratives used for?

Answer 20

Therapy and treatment for depression and grief
Re authorising the self
Role of psychotherapy in re formulating and repairing life stories

Question 21

What is context dependence?

Answer 21

Whether our personality Vary with contexts and situations. The belief that personality should predict our behaviour in all situations. However this is wrong as sometimes extroverted people want to be alone.

Question 22

What is the resolution of interactionism?

Answer 22

Where traits and situations react. And the need to understand both to understand a person.

Question 23

What is the resolution of aggregation?

Answer 23

a trait does not refer to a specific behaviour in s specific situation but rather to a class of behaviours over a range of situations

Question 24

What is self-other consistency?

Answer 24

The questioning of whether out judgements of ourselves are similar to judgements of us by others?

Peer-peer ratings are more consistent than self-peer ratings

Question 25

What is personality?

Answer 25

Enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour that are expressed in different circumstances