Exam 3 Flashcards
What is the most important thing related to personaility?
Pattern
Trait theory vs type theory
Type theory is impossible to reduct to (put people in boxes)
Trait theory allows for more differences
Four humors
How much of each type of fluid is in the body
id
Impulsive/animal nature
superego
Morality
ego
The in between of id and superego
Openness
Openness to experience of new things
Consienctiousness
Very organized/planned
Detail oriented
Punctual
Extraversion
Extraverted/social/higher energy
Agreeableness
People pleaser/ignores own opinions
Neuroticism
Anxious/depressed
Reciprocal Determinism
Environment and personality interact with one another
Maslow’s hierarchy of need
Basic needs met first
Goal=self-actualization
Fundamental attribution error
Tendency to make dispositional errors about a person based on action
Thinking someone is an asshole when they cut you off in traffic
Dispositional attribution
People thinking a certain way of someone based on action
Scared someone will think you are weak in the gym when you are injured and can’t lift as much
Situational attribution
The situation going on that makes you act a certain way
Not holding the door because you are injured and cannot
Cognitive dissonance
Values do not match with actions
Feel bad about buying things on amazon when you care about the environment
Milgram’s obedience study
Person in lab coat telling participant to shock the actor
Hearing the actor screaming or asking to stop
But feeling the need to continue because a person in authority told them to continue
Asch’s conformity study
Line test
Clearly one right answer but everyone else in the group gave the wrong answer
Conforming to the group answer even though you do not think it’s correct
Normative social influence
Want to be seen as normal and liked by the group
Informative social influence
Assuming other people have more information than you so you automatically think they are correct
Jane Elliot’s blue-eyed, brown-eyed experiment
Showing how discrimination can happen so quickly
Blue-eyed are worse than brown-eyed
Within 15 mins saw extreme impacts and did bad on tests
Social identity theory
A large part of our identity is based on involvement in groups
Prejudice
Negative emotions
Discrimination (actions)
Sterotypes
