Ch. 9 Personality

Question 1

feared selves
religiosity y spiritual support
gender-role identity

Answer 1

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Question 2

dispositional trait**

Answer 2

aspects of a personality consistent across different contexts that can be compared across a group along a continuum

Question 3

personal concerns

Answer 3

things that are important to people, their goals, and their major concerns in life

Question 4

life narrative**

Answer 4

aspects of the personality pulling everything juntos, those integrative aspects that give a person an identity or sense of self

(ie) creating your own identity

Question 5

state processes**

Answer 5

a component of personality that acts w/ dispositional traits to create transient, short-term changes in emotion, mood, hunger, anxiety, etc.

Question 6

cognitive process**

Answer 6

a component of personality that acts jointly w/ life narratives to create natural interaction that occurs btwn a storyteller y listener
- processes central in organizing life stories

Question 7

trait**

Answer 7

any distinguishable, relatively enduring way that one individual differs from others

Question 8

trait theories**

Answer 8

theories of personality that assume little change occurs across adulthood

Question 9

five-factor model

Answer 9

(Costa & McCrae) a model of dispositional traits w/ the dimensions of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness-antagonism y conscientiousness-undirectedness

Question 10

personality adjustment

Answer 10

refers to developmental changes in terms of their adaptive value y functionality
- FFM criticism

(ie) fcn effectively w/in society
(ie) how personality contributes to everyday life running smoothly

Question 11

personality growth

Answer 11

refers to ideal end states
- FFM criticism

(ie) increased self-transcendence
(ie) wisdom
(ie) integrity

Question 12

Jung’s Theory

Answer 12

each aspect of a person’s personality must be in balance w/ all the others
- each part of personality = expressed in some way

(ie) healthy = balance btwn archetypes

Question 13

young adulthood

Answer 13

intimacy vs. isolation

Erikson stage of psychosocial development

• partners in friendship, sex competition, cooperation
• strength: LOVE

Question 14

adulthood

Answer 14

generatively vs. stagnation

Erikson stage of psychosocial development

• divided labor y shared household
• strength: CARE

Question 15

old age

Answer 15

integrity vs. despair

Erikson stage of psychosocial development

• humankind, “my kind”
• strength: WISDOM

Question 16

epigenetic principle**

Answer 16

(Erikson) the notion that each psychosocial strength/stage has its own special time of ascendancy or period of particular importance
- they build up on one another

Question 17

midlife crisis

Answer 17

reevaluating one’s roles y dreams and making the necessary corrections
- behavioral changes may occur

Question 18

life-span construct**

Answer 18

person’s unified sense of the past, present y future

Question 19

self-concept**

Answer 19

the organized, coherent, integrated patterns of self-perceptions

(ie) notions of self-esteem y self-image

Question 20

subjective well-being**

Answer 20

evaluation of one’s life associated w/ (+) feelings

- assessed by measures of life satisfaction, happiness y self-esteem

Question 21

possible selves

Answer 21

represent what we could become, what we would like to become, and what we are afraid of becoming
- often reflects personal goals

(ie) I want to be an actress.

Question 22

spiritual support

Answer 22

seeking pastoral care, participate in organized y nonorganized religious activities, and express faith in a God who cares for people