Chapter 4 Flashcards
OCEAN dimensions (the big 5 personality constructs)
the dimensions that define personality
O of OCEAN dimensions
open to experience and aware of thoughts, feelings, and impulses.
C of OCEAN dimensions
Conscientiousness, the extent people are dependable and conform to social norms
E of OCEAN dimensions
Extroversion, how social someone is.
A of OCEAN dimensions
Agreeableness, the extent that people are likable, cooperative, and considerate.
N of OCEAN dimensions
Neuroticism, also called emotional stability, the tendency to experience negative emotions.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): (E/I)
Extroversion/Introversion, how they interact socially
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): (S/N)
Sensing/Intuiting, how they prefer to collect information, sensing are more factual and intuiting is more based on instinct and subjective ideas
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): (T/F)
Thinking/Feeling, how they evaluate information, thinking is more logical and feeling is based on their or someone else’s reactions
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): (J/P)
Judging/Perceiving (J/P), how they make decisions, judging are planners and perceiving are spontaneous
Locus of Control
What people believe controls what happens to them. Can be internal locus or external locus.
Internal vs. External Locus
Internal Locus- believe they control their own fate
External locus- believe that luck or other situational factors control their fate
Conditional Reasoning Approach
Suggests individuals interpret what happens in their social environment by their own mentality. Assumes responses to situation depend on personality.
Cognitive-Affective Processing System
the personality system is comprised of cognitive-affective units, that are defined as interpretations of people and situations, goals, feelings, etc… They are affected by external environmental factors.
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory 4 stages
Concrete Experience (CE)
Reflective Observation (RO)
Abstract Conceptualization (AC)
Active Experimentation (AE)
Concrete Experience (CE)
where people undergo an experience that is new or alters a previous experience they have had in the past.
Reflective Observation (RO)
the process of analyzing the experience that occurred and understanding it.