Chapter 11 - Personality

Question 0

Relatively enduring characteristics that influence our behavior across many situations

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Traits

Question 1

An individual’s consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

The idea that there are 5 fundamental underlying trait dimensions that are stable across time, cross-culturally shared, and explain a substantial proportion of behavior

Answer 2

Five Factor (big 5) Model of Personality

Question 3

What are the “big 5” factors of personality?

Answer 3

Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism.                                use acronym "OCEAN"

Question 4

The observation that people tend to believe in descriptions of their personality that supposedly are descriptive of them but could infect describe almost anyone

Answer 4

Barnum Effect

Question 5

A test used around the world to identify personality and psychological disorders

Answer 5

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

Question 6

A projective measure of personality in which the respondent indicates his or her thoughts about a series of 10 symmetrical inkblots

Answer 6

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Question 7

In psychodynamic psychology, the component of personality that forms the basis of our most primitive impulses (our inner 4-year-old)

Answer 7

Id

Question 8

In psychodynamic psychology, the component of personality that represents our sense of morality and oughts (the principal or judge)

Answer 8

Superego

Question 9

I psychodynamic psychology, the component of personality that is largely conscious controller or decision-maker of personality (the teacher)

Answer 9

Ego