Chapter 12: Personality (3B) Flashcards
What is personality inventory?
A questionnaire deigned to assess various aspects of personality
What is the five factor model?
An empirically-derived trait theory that proposes five major trait categories.
What are the five major trait categories?
- Agreeableness/disagreeableness
- Extroversion/introversion
-Conscienetouness/irresponsibility - Neuroticism/stability
- Openness to ecpirence/unimaginativeness
What is the Myers’s-Briggs Type Indicator
The MBTI is used by businesses to understand personality dynamics in workplace settings
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2
The MMPI-2 is useful in assessing psychological disorders
What are projective tests?
A personality assessment device invented to tap a person’s unconscious by presenting the person with an ambiguous stimuli and asking the person to interpret what the stimulus means.
What are some examples of projective tests
Rorschach Inkblot test
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
What is situationism?
A view of personality, which that in many social situations people reason in similar ways, meaning that situation drives their response rather than their personality
What is interactionism?
Emphasizes the relationship between a person’s underlying personality traits and reinforcing aspects of situations in which people choose to put themselves
Who was Bandura?
A interactionist, who developed the social-cognitive theory.
What is reciprocal determinism?
reciprocal relationship exists among environment, behaviour, and internal mental events
How much do genetics contribute to personality?
Twin studies allow researches to separate genetics and environment
- Genes are more important than environment in development of temperament and traits
- Some behavioural tendencies and addictions have genetic components
- Environmental experiences may affect the development of psychotic illness in individuals with genetic predisposition
What is phrenology?
Evaluating the mental and more qualities by examining skull shape
Where the ideas of Fran’s Jospeh Gall True?
No, they were inaccurate. But his ideas about the localization of brain functions and the role of the brain in personality continue to influence neurological science
What is the amygdala?
The area of the brain for emotionality, motivation, processing negative stimuli (e.g, fear and avoidance)
Inhabited children may have an easily activated amygdala in unfamiliar situations, which activates a lot of ear and shyness
