lecture 11

Question 1

what is peronality?

Answer 1

relatively consistent patterns of behavior
styles of interacting with others and the world
we want to describe how people differ from each other

Question 2

states are:

Answer 2

temporary

Question 3

traits are more

Answer 3

stable

Question 4

what is in the big five?

Answer 4

extraversion
neuroticism
agreeableness
conscientiousness
openness to experience

Question 5

how to measure the big five?

Answer 5

self-report questionnaries, NEO-PI-R, BFI-10
informant data, parents, close friends, coaches

Question 6

what does the big five instrumetns provide of the personality?

Answer 6

semi-countinuous measure

Question 7

MBTI=

Answer 7

myers-biriggs type indicator,
zelf report questionnaire, relatively low reliability and low validity

Question 8

what four cognitive functions does jungian typologu suggest?

Answer 8

thinking
feeling
sensation
intituision

Question 9

barnum effect=

Answer 9

discriptions are vague and ambiguous enough to apply to almost anyone, mechanism behind astropology and fortune-telling

Question 10

what is behavior shaped by?

Answer 10

personality and situation

Question 11

what do weak situations provide?

Answer 11

few guides for behavior, letting personalities shape action

Question 12

what do strong situations provide?

Answer 12

clear guides for behavior

Question 13

unconcious mind:

Answer 13

people are unconcious of their motives
defence mechanisms help to keep this out of consciousness

Question 14

what is the goal of psychoanalysis?

Answer 14

make them conscious of these memories

Question 15

repression=

Answer 15

anxiety producing thoughts are pushed out of consciousness

Question 16

displacement=

Answer 16

unconscious unacceptable wish redirected toward more acceptable wish

Question 17

sublimation=

Answer 17

displacement to a valued entity

Question 18

reaction formation=

Answer 18

conversation of frightening thought into safer opposite

Question 19

projection=

Answer 19

attribute own wish to other

Question 20

rationalisation=

Answer 20

use reasoning to explain anxiety provoking thoughts or feelings

Question 21

what are the 6 defence mechanisms?

Answer 21

repression, desplacement, sublimation, reaction formation, projection, rationalisation

Question 22

what are three defensive styles?

Answer 22

immature, intermediate, mature

Question 23

immature:

Answer 23

destortion of reality

Question 24

intermediate:

Answer 24

repression and reaction formation

Question 25

mature:

Answer 25

suppression and humor

Question 26

fixed mindset=

Answer 26

unchangeble belief about personality, intelegence etc

Question 27

grown mindset=

Answer 27

malleable view on personalility, depending on effort behavior, intelligence can change