4. Personality Flashcards
What are the two types of psychological models?
Content models and process models
What is level 1 of knowing a person?
Knowing about their general dispositions or traits
What is level 2 of knowing a person
Knowing about their concerns and values
What is level 3 of knowing a person
Know about how they see themselves as a person. Their life narratives.
What is the lexical approach?
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
What is the 5 factor model?
Ocean
What is openness
Intellectual curiosity and independence
What is conscientiousness
Organised. Persistent and dependable
What is extra version
Outgoing and sociable
What is agreeableness
Compassionate and trusting of others
What is neuroticism?
Emotionally variable and impulsive.
What is the dark triad of personality?
Personality characteristics that most people fine offe cue but not necessarily pathologically
Psychopathy
Egocentrism. Superficial charm. Lacking empathy. Lacking guilt.
High o. Low c. High e. Low a. Low n
What is narcissism
Love for self far stronger than love for others. Perceptions of self superiority and entitlement.
High o. High e. Low a
What is macchiavellianism?
Manipulative. Deceitful. Usually for personal gain
Love c. Low a
What are uses of the 5 factor personality model and the dark triad?
For employment selection and profiling criminals
What are values?
Beliefs pertaining to desires goals and means. Transcend specific situations. Guide our behaviour and vary in importance.
What are the uses of values?
For understanding political attitudes and behaviours
What are life narratives?
Internalised stories about our past , present and future. Integrates our traits, values, concerns, dreams and personal histories.
What are life narratives used for?
Therapy and treatment for depression and grief
Re authorising the self
Role of psychotherapy in re formulating and repairing life stories
What is context dependence?
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.
What is the resolution of interactionism?
Where traits and situations react. And the need to understand both to understand a person.
What is the resolution of aggregation?
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
What is self-other consistency?
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
What is personality?
Enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and behaviour that are expressed in different circumstances
