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Ch 12 Personality Flashcards

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What does personality account for?

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Individual differences or individual consistencies

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What percentage of our traits are genetic?

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50

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What are the 4 things that Hippocrates believed reflect personality?

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Black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm

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What did Hippocrates believe an abundance of black bile meant in terms of personality?

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The person will be moody and dark

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What did Hippocrates believe an abundance of yellow bile meant in terms of personality?

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The person will be irritable and tough to get along with

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What did Hippocrates believe an abundance of blood meant in terms of personality?

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The person will be robust and Santa clause type

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What did Hippocrates believe an abundance of phlegm meant in terms of personality?

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The person will be difficult to arouse

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What is personality?

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A persons unique set of consistent behavioural traits

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How many personality traits are necessary to describe personality adequately?

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5

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What are the big five when it comes to personality?

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Extraversion, openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness

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If someone scores high in neuroticism tend to be… Give 3 examples

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Anxious, self-conscious, and insecure

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If someone scored high on the extra version scale they would be… Give 3 examples

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Outgoing, friendly, and assertive

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If someone scored high on being open to experience on the personality scale, they would be… Give 3 examples

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Curious, flexible, and artistic

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If someone scored high on agreeableness on a personality test, they would be… Give 3 examples

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Sympathetic, trusting, and modest

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If someone scored high on being conscientious on a personality test, they would be… Give 3 examples

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Punctual, organized, and dependable

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According to Freud, how do we get to the psyche?

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Free association, slips of the tongue, and dream analysis

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What are the 12 ego defence mechanisms?

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Denial of reality, creating fantasy, compensation, identification, introjection, projection, rationalization, repression, reaction formation, displacement, regression, and sublimation

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does denial of reality mean?

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People who don’t want to talk about things they’re uncomfortable with

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does compensation mean?

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If I can’t do well in one area, I’ll do another and il do even better

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does identification mean?

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Identifying with people that are more powerful

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does introjection mean?

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Take values from a more formal society of person. If you can’t beat them, join them

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does projection mean?

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Projecting your values onto someone else or transferring blame

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does rationalization mean?

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Giving excuses for bad behaviour

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does repression mean?

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Repressing experiences that may disturb us eg ‘not remembering’

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does reaction formation mean?

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Adopting attitudes that are opposite of what you normally would be like

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does displacement mean?

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Taking your anger out on someone

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does regression mean?

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When you’re angry or stressed, returning to a time when you were more secure

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When speaking of ego defence mechanisms, what does sublimation mean?

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Converting sexual impulses somewhere else like school

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Explain Thanatos and Eros

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Thanatos likes control and decay

Eros likes life and loves growth

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Who believed that life is a constant battle of life and death?

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Freud

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Who believed that the Jewish people didn’t react because they were overwhelmed with Thanatos?

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Bruno Bettelheim

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What are the 5 stages of phychosexual development?

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

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Who believed there were three types of traits that people have?

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All port

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According to Allport, what are the three types of traits people have?

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Cardinal, central, and secondary

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What is a cardinal trait according to Allport?

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Everything that you do can be reduced to this one trait

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What is a central trait according to Allport?

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Some things like being funny or empathetic..traits people may think of when they think of you

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What is a secondary trait according to Allport?

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A trait that has no significant aspects that reflect who you are

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What are the three characteristics of Allports idea of the ‘mature personality?”

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Capable of empathy, has a sense of humour, and perspective

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What are the three “super factors” of personality according to Eynsench?

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Extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism

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What is an ambinvert?

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You aren’t on either end of a polar trait, you have a little bit of everything in you!

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What personality trait “suffers’ from low cortical arousal?

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An extrovert

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According to Susanne Kobassa, what are the three aspects of hardiness?

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Commitment, control, and challenge

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What does Skinner believe in when it comes to personality?

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Rewards=personality

If you’re a whiny baby and you get rewarded for it, you’ll be a whiny person

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The social cognitive approach is important to Albert Bandura. He believes in reciprocal determinism. What is reciprocal determinism?

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We are creators and products of our environment.

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What is an internal locus of control?

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When you believe that you are in control of your environment, and things happen because of your own doing ie, good grades

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What is an external locus of control?

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You feel the environment is in control

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Two people are writing a test. Both of the, do well. What would a person with an internal locus of control be likely to say about their performance? What would a person with and external locus of control be likely to say about their performance?

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Internal: I studied hard for that test that’s why I did well
External: I must have been lucky

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What is self efficacy?

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Through your efforts, you produce your results

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What are the 4 key factors in the humanistic theory of personality?

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Holistic, dispositional, phenomenological, and existential

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What des dispositional mean when referring to one of the key factors of the humanistic theory of personality?

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We are disposed to be empathic, and to growth

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What does phenomenological mean when referring to one of the key factors of the humanistic theory of personality?

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The world is subjective. What you find stressful, may not be stressful to someone else

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What does existential mean when referring to one of the key factors of the humanistic theory of personality?

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You are free to choose

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What does OCEAN stand for?

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Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

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What are the two types of tools used for measuring personality?

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Self report inventory and projection techniques

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What are self projection techniques and how are they used?

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They are techniques that allow people to project their ideas onto something ambiguous, like a picture, what do you see in this picture? They are used to measure personality

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Give an example of a self report technique for assessing personality

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Ocean or MMPI

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Who believed we live in a hyper reality?

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Jean Boudrillard

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What did Jean Boudrillard believe?

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We live in a hyper reality

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Explain the post modern theory of personality

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There’s nothing behind social masks, what you see is what people are

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When it comes to the humanistic theory of personality, Maslow believed in what?

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That people are pre-disposed to become self-actualizing.

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What are the 4 steps in Maslow’s theory of personality?

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  1. Tissue or biological needs
  2. Safety needs
  3. Belonging/love
  4. Self esteem
    Then comes self-actualization
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What did Carl Rogers believe in when it came to personality?

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That people are primed for growth and fulfillment

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What are the 3 things that Carl Rogers believed that growth depends on?

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  1. Genuineness
  2. Acceptance
  3. Empathy
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Identify 3 criticisms of the humanistic theory of personality

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  1. Failed to see reality of evil
  2. Needs to look at genetic factors
  3. Needs to be more empirical
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What are the 5 factors of personality? (OCEAN)

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openness to experiences
conscientiousness 
extraversion
agreeableness 
neuroticism
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Who created the big-5 or OCEAN?

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McCrae and Costa

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what is the reality principle?

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what the ego is guided by, delaying gratification of the IDs urges until situations can be found

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what does the conscious consist of to Freud?

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whatever one is aware of at a particular point in time

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What does the preconscious consist of when referring to Freuds idea of levels of awareness?

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material just beneath the surface of awareness

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What was Jung’s theory called?

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analytical psychology

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what was adler known for?

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Individual psychology, striving for superiority

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What was Carl Jung’s collective unconsciousness?

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a storehouse of latent memory traces inherted from peoples ancestral past

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What are archetypes (Jung)

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emotionally harged images that have universal meanings

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Who provided the first description of introversion and extraversion?

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Jung

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What does Buss think about the big 5 and what does Nettle think?

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Buss– big 5 may have contributed to reproductive fitness

Nettle– big 5 are products of evolution that were adaptive in ancestral times

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