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Chapter 11 - Personality: Theory & Measurement Flashcards

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What is the distinct patterns of behavior, thoughts & feelings that characterize a person’s adaptation to life?

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Personality

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What states that no two persons are ever exactly alike?

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Personality

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What type of theories propose that personality and behaviour are shaped and influenced by external and internal conflicts?

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Psychodynamic theories

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What type of theory is Sigmund Freud’s perspective?

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Psychoanalytic

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What does the psychoanalytic theory emphasize?

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Importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as forces that determine behavior

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Who is the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology?

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Sigmund Freud

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Who theorized that the mind is like an iceberg with 3 levels of awareness?

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Sigmund Freud

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What are Sigmund Freud’s three levels of consciousness?

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1) conscious
2) preconscious
3) unconscious

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Which level of consciousness is all the thoughts, feelings, sensations, and memories which we are aware of at any given time?

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Conscious

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Which level of awareness are the thoughts, feelings and memories that we aren’t consciously aware of at the moment?

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Preconscious

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Which level of awareness contains thoughts that can be brought to mind?

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Preconscious

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Which level of awareness is one’s primary motivating force of behavior?

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Unconscious

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Which level of awareness contains all of one’s earliest and repressed memories?

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Unconscious

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What are psychic structures?

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Describe the clashing forces of personality

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What are Sigmund Freud’s 3 psychic structures of personality?

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1) ID
2) superego
3) ego

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Which psychic structure contains life instincts and operates on the pleasure principle?

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ID

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Which psychic structure functions as a moral guardian, setting forth high standards for behaviour?

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Superego

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Which psychic structure develops during the 1st year of life?

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Ego

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Which psychic structure resides at conscious, preconscious and conscious?

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Ego

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Which psychic structure has a role to satisfy the urges of the ID?

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Ego

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What is the psychoanalytic theory’s idea of identification?

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Unconscious adoption of mother person’s behavior

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Why did Sigmund Freud identify defense mechanisms in humans?

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The ego needs some way to deal with conflict between the ID and the superego or reality?

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What are the 8 defense mechanisms identified by Sigmund Freud?

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1) repression
2) projection
3) denial
4) rationalization
5) regression
6) reaction
7) displacement
8) sublimation

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What is the act of removing unpleasant memories from one’s consciousness so that one is not aware of the painful event?

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Repression

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What is the act of attributing our own undesirable thoughts, impulses, personality traits or behaviours to others?

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Projection

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What is the act of refusing to consciously acknowledge the existence of a range of a threatening condition?

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Denial

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What is the act of supplying a logical, rational, socially acceptable reason for an unacceptable thought or action?

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Rationalization

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What is the act of reverting to a behaviour that might have reduced anxiety at an earlier stage of development?

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Regression

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What is the process of denying an unacceptable impulse, usually sexual or aggressive, by giving strong conscious expression to its opposite?

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Reaction formation

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What is the substitution of a less threatening object for the original object of an impulse?

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Displacement

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What is the rechanneling of sexual or aggressive energy to pursuits or accomplishments that society considers acceptable or even praiseworthy?

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Sublimation

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What are the stages of psychosexual development?

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1) oral (0-1yrs)
2) anal (2-3yrs)
3) phallic (3-6yrs)
4) latency (6-puberty)
5) genital (puberty)

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What is the major instinct that preserves and perpetuates life?

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Eros

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What is expressed through different pleasure - experiencing erogenous zones of the body?

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Libido

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What is Eros fuelled by?

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Libido

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Which complex involving child’s libidinal attachment to the opposite-sex parent is in the boy?

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Oedipal

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Which complex involving child’s libidinal attachment to the opposite-sex parent is in the girl?

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Electra

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What does the resolution of the Oedipal and Electra complex result in?

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Child identifying with the same-sex parent

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Which stage of psychosexual development has no erogenous zones?

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Latency

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Which stage of psychosexual development happens between zero and one years?

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Oral

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Which stage of psychosexual development happens between 3 to 6 years old?

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Phallic

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Which stage of psychosexual development happens between 2 to 3 years old?

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Anal

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Which stage of psychosexual development happens at puberty?

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Genital

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Who is the founder of analytical psychology?

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Carl Jung

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What did Carl Jung develop his theory around the notion of?

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Personal unconscious

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What is the idea of personal unconscious?

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Depository of primitive images called archetypes to reflect human history. It’s the layer of the unconscious containing all the experiences thoughts and perceptions

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What does the personal unconscious develop from?

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One’s own experience

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What is the most inaccessible layer of the unconsciousness, containing the universal experiences of humankind transmitted to each individual?

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Collective unconscious

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What is the phrase coined by Carl Jung?

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Archetypes

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What are archetypes?

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Existing and collective conscious, and inherent tendency to respond in particular ways to Universal situations

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Who is the founder of individual psychology?

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Alfred Adler

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Who thought that a self-aware aspect of personality or creative self strives to overcome obstacles and develop the persons potential?

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Alfred Adler

53
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What theory emphasizes feelings of inferiority and the creative self?

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Individual psychology

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According to individual psychology, what is more motivated by the conscious than unconscious, influenced by future goals rather than early childhood experiences?

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Behavior

55
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What complex proposes that we’re driven by our need to compensate for our inferiority or sense of lack of achievement?

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Inferiority complex

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What complex proposes that we strive for superiority, or personal significance, and project our feelings onto others we perceive as inferior?

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Superiority complex

57
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What is Alfred Adler’s style of life?

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An individual’s unique, unconscious, and repetitive way of responding to the three main tasks of living

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What are the 3 main tasks of living according to Alfred Adler?

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Friendship, love and work

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What kind of analysis was Karen Horney?

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Neo-Freudian psychoanalyst

60
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Who believed that social relationships were more important to one’s development than the unconscious sexual impulses?

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Karen Horney

61
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Who proposed that genuine and consistent love can alleviate the effects of a traumatic childhood?

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Karen Horney

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What two main themes was Karen Horney’s work centered on?

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Neurotic personality and feminine psychology

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Who believed that one must learn to overcome the irrational belief about the need for perfection?

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Karen Horney

64
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Who proposed the psychosocial theory of personality and development?

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Erik Erikson

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What does Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development of personality emphasize?

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Social relationships and eight stages of growth

66
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Who proposed that the resolution of each crisis leads to the development of positive age-appropriate traits and a healthy individual?

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Erik Erikson

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What is a relatively stable aspect of personality that can be inferred from behavior?

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Trait

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Who was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality?

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Gordon Allport

69
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What is a personal quality that is so strong a part of a person’s personality that they may become identified with that trait?

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Cardinal Trait

70
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What is the type of trait you would mention in writing a letter of recommendation?

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Central trait

71
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What are the different things that the trait theory asks if our behavior is a result of?

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Trait vs State
Nature vs Nurture
Innate vs Environmental
Disposition vs Situation

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What is a statistical technique used to tease out clusters of variables that seem to reflect a more basic or underlying variable?

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Factor analysis

73
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Who was a proponent of factor analysis methods, in place of verbal theorizing?

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Raymond Cattell

74
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How many factors did Cattell suggest support human personality source traits?

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16

75
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According to Cattell, what are the observable qualities of a personality?

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Surface traits

76
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According to Cattell, what are traits that underlie the surface traits, make up the most basic personality structure, and cause behavior?

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Source traits

77
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What was most of Hans J. Eysenck’s personality research focused on?

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Relationships between introversion and extroversion

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What is a trait characterized by intense imagination and the tendency to inhibit impulses?

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Introversion

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What is a trait characterized by tendencies to be socially outgoing and to express feelings and impulses freely?

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Extroversion

80
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What is emotional stability-instability?

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Neuroticism

81
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What is the most efficient way to measure personality according to McCrae and Costa, called the “Big Five”?

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1) openness to experience
2) conscientiousness
3) extroversion
4) agreeableness
5) neuroticism

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In the Big Five, what is the degree of dependability?

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Conscientiousness

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In the Big Five, what is the degree of friendliness?

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Agreeableness

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In the Big Five, what is the degree of open-mindedness?

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Openness to experience

85
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What is the idea of personality genetics?

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Building blocks of personality may be written into DNA. Optimism and self-esteem are predicted by a portion of the third chromosome associated with the greater utilization of oxytocin

86
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What is the heritability of an extroverted personality?

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40-60%

87
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What levels are higher in the brains of extroverts than those of introverts?

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Dopamine

88
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What personalities are the ones with the most connects and friends on Facebook?

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Extroverted

89
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What do learning theorists say about personality?

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Personality consists of patterns of behavior that are learned and unlearned

90
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What did John Watson and B.F. Skinner find out about personality?

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Personality is plastic and shaped by situational and environmental factors

91
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Who believed that personality is a collection of learned behaviours or habits that have been reinforced in the past?

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B. F. Skinner

92
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What is Reciprocal Determinism by Albert Bandura?

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How people are influenced by their environment

93
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What are the 3 parts of reciprocal determinism?

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1) one’s environment
2) one’s behaviour
3) one’s personal cognitive factors

94
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What theory suggests that knowledge is acquired by observing others?

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Observational learning

95
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What is the belief that you can accomplish certain things?

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Self-efficacy

96
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What refers to a person’s sense of self-worth?

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Self-esteem

97
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What theory suggests that there is observational learning of male and female behaviours?

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Social-cognitive theory

98
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Who identified the locus of control?

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Julian Rotter

99
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What is the idea of the Locus of Control?

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Represents how a person’s decision making ability is influenced

100
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What type of Loci are people that are generally more apt to be stressed and suffers from depression?

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External Loci

101
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What type of Loci are people that make decisions or choices primarily on their own?

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Internal Loci

102
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What do Humanists believe about personality?

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People are capable of free-choice, self-fulfillment and ethical behavior

103
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Who contended that motivational factors are at the root of personality?

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Abram Maslow

104
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What is at the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

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Self-actualization

105
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People who have a sense of mission, peacefulness, simplicity, humour and comfort are considered what?

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Self-actualizers

106
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Who viewed human nature as basically good and developed his theory of personality through insights gained from patients in therapy?

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Carl Rogers

107
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Who suggested that each individual has a private subjective reality?

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Carl Rogers

108
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What theory focuses on the nature of the self and the conditions that allow the self to develop freely?

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Self theory

109
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What is unconditional positive regard?

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Involves accepting individuals as having intrinsic merit, regardless of present behavior

110
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With is accepting individuals only when they behave in a desired manner?

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Conditional positive regard

111
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What perspective focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture and socioeconomic status in personality formation, behavior and mental processes?

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Sociocultural perspective

112
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How do individualists define self?

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In terms of personal traits, gives priority to personal goals

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How do collectivists define self?

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In terms of groups, gives priority to the group’s goals

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