Chapter 4 Flashcards

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OCEAN dimensions (the big 5 personality constructs)

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the dimensions that define personality

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O of OCEAN dimensions

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open to experience and aware of thoughts, feelings, and impulses.

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C of OCEAN dimensions

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Conscientiousness, the extent people are dependable and conform to social norms

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E of OCEAN dimensions

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Extroversion, how social someone is.

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A of OCEAN dimensions

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Agreeableness, the extent that people are likable, cooperative, and considerate.

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N of OCEAN dimensions

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Neuroticism, also called emotional stability, the tendency to experience negative emotions.

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): (E/I)

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Extroversion/Introversion, how they interact socially

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): (S/N)

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Sensing/Intuiting, how they prefer to collect information, sensing are more factual and intuiting is more based on instinct and subjective ideas

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): (T/F)

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Thinking/Feeling, how they evaluate information, thinking is more logical and feeling is based on their or someone else’s reactions

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): (J/P)

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Judging/Perceiving (J/P), how they make decisions, judging are planners and perceiving are spontaneous

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Locus of Control

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What people believe controls what happens to them. Can be internal locus or external locus.

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Internal vs. External Locus

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Internal Locus- believe they control their own fate

External locus- believe that luck or other situational factors control their fate

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Conditional Reasoning Approach

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Suggests individuals interpret what happens in their social environment by their own mentality. Assumes responses to situation depend on personality.

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Cognitive-Affective Processing System

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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.

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Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory 4 stages

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Concrete Experience (CE)

Reflective Observation (RO)

Abstract Conceptualization (AC)

Active Experimentation (AE)

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Concrete Experience (CE)

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where people undergo an experience that is new or alters a previous experience they have had in the past.

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Reflective Observation (RO)

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the process of analyzing the experience that occurred and understanding it.

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Abstract Conceptualization (AC)

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the stage where the individual finishes reflecting and creates a hypothesis about the experience based on their understanding of the event.

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Active Experimentation (AE)

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the application of the hypothesis one has made and observing the results.

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Kolb’s learning styles

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Accommodator

Diverger

Converger

Assimilator

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Accommodator

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strong in AE and CE stages, focuses on action rather than thinking

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Diverger

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strong in CE and RO stages, are imaginative and feeling oriented, tend to love arts

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Converger

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strong in AC and AE stages, good at decision making and practical applications

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Assimilator

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strong in AC and RO stages, less focused on people and more interested in theoretical concepts

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Personality

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an individual’s constant characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour, and the psychological mechanisms that support and drive them. Both nature (genetic) and nurture (environment) aspects affect personality development

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Traits

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regular dimensions of individual behaviour (extroverted, confident, etc…)

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Trait Theories

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emphasize components of personality and play down one’s environment. Examples of trait models are the Big Five Model and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

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Interactionist Theories

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emphasize the situation and the nature of the individual understanding and predicting behaviour. Some interactionist models include the conditional reasoning approach and cognitive-affective processing system.

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Machiavellianism

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the degree people are willing to do whatever it takes if the end result is successful (including manipulating people and other bad things)

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4 dimensions of honesty/humility

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  • Sincerity
  • Fairness
  • Greed Avoidance
  • Modesty
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Sincerity

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unwillingness to be manipulative or dishonest

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Fairness

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unwillingness to cheat steal or use fraud

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Greed Avoidance

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less concerned with wealth or status

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Modesty

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acknowledge limits, keep accomplishments in perspective, and low self focus

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Narcissism

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an arrogant, self-centred, entitled person who needs excessive admiration

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Psychopathy

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prone to deviant behaviour partly due to high levels of thrill seeking impulsivity and selfishness tend to display a superficial charm, lack emotion and remorsefulness

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Emotional Intelligence

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The capacity to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions

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4 core dimensions of emotional intelligence

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self-awareness

other-awareness

emotional regulation

use of emotions

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Self-awareness

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the appraisal and expression of emotions in oneself

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Other-awareness

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the appraisal and recognition of emotion in others

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Emotional regulation

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being able to recover quickly from emotional experiences

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Use of emotions

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being able to harness emotions to enhance performance

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trait activation

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certain situational cues are needed to evoke the display of personality traits

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reciprocal determinism

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influenced by 3 things

  • personal factors
  • behaviour
  • environmental factors