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Chapter 16 Flashcards

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Personality

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The characteristic ways that people differ from one another

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Personality Traits

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Basic dimensions on which people differ

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Criteria to characterize Personality Traits

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(1) Consistency
(2) Stability
(3) Individual Differences

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Lexical Hypothesis

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States that all important personality characteristics should be reflected in the language that we use to describe other people.

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The five factor model (The Big Five)

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The Big Five: OCEAN
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

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Opnness

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The tendency to appreciate new art, ideas, values feelings and behaviours

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Conscientiousness

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The tendency to be careful, on time for appointments, follow rules and to be hardworking

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Extraversion

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Tendency to be talkative, sociable, and to enjoy others. To have a dominant style

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Agreeableness

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To agree and go along with others rather than asserting ones own opinion and choices

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Neurotism

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tendency to frequently experience negative emotions such as anger, worry and sadness, as well as being interpersonally sensitive

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Revision of HEXACO Model

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Adds Honesty and Humility

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Machiavellianism

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Interested in money and power

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Need for Achievement

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high in need for achievement want to accomplish a lot and set high standards from themselves

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Need for Cognition

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Enjoy learning and the process of trying to understand new things

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Authoritarianism

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Believe in strict social hierarchies in which they are totally obedient to those above them `

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Narcissism

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personality has self love that is so strong that it results in high levels of vanity, conceit and selfishness. Have problems with empathy

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Self esteem

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Tendency to evaluate oneself positively. Knowing you are a person of worth

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Optimism

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Tendency to expect positive outcomes

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Alexithymia

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the inability to recognize and label emotions in oneself

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Objective Tests

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Made to be standardized. Has specific answers to choose from

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Self Report Measures

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Answering questions about yourself

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high stakes testing

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Situations in which test scores are used to make important decisions about individuals (e.g when applying for a job)

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Self Enchantment Bias

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people are motivated to ignore (or at least downplay) some of their less desirable characteristics and to focus instead on their more positive attributes.

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Informant Ratings

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Some other person to describe your characteristics

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Facets

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Specific, lower level units of personality

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