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Mid-Term Flashcards

1
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What do personality psychologists want to know?

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Thought, Feelings, Behaviours (all invisible)

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What is experimenter demand?

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Can cause patients to resist or pick the socially desirable answers to help the experimenter.

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What is Funders second law?

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There is no perfect indicator of personality. There are only clues, and clues are always ambiguous.

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Four basic types of sourcing data?

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Self-report, Informants, Life outcomes, Behavioural observations. (Bonus: Biology)

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3 types of personality psychology research?

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Correlation, Experimental, natural/quasi-experimental.

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What are the objective measures of psychology?

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Life outcomes and behaviour.

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Tests to assess personality?

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Projective tests (Rorschach inkblots), Objective tests (yes/No and scales).

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In what ways can we evaluate the measures of Psychology.

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Validity, Reliability, Generalizability.

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Define Validity.

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Does the study measure what it claims to measure?

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Factors that reduce validity.

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Low precision of measurement, state of participants, state of the experimenter, the environment.

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What are attention checks used for?

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Increasing reliability (by excluding participants not paying attention).

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What is the trait apporiach to personality?

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Indentify fairly stable psychological and behavioural tendencies that differ between people.

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What is a trait?

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Stable individual differences (e.g. Narcissism, Agreeableness)

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What is a state?

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Current individual differences between people (e.g. friendliness when in a good mood or high self-esteem from winning a game).

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What are two key points of the trait approach?

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  1. Based on empirical research 2. Focuses on individual differences.
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Whose theory is the Person Situation debate?

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Walter Mischel (1968)

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17
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Explain the Stereotype Content Model.

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2 dimensions: Warmth and Competence.
High-High = Admiration, Low-Low = Contempt
High warmth-Low competence = Pity
Low warmth-High competence = Envy

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What is a negativity bias?

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We remember negativity more often, doesn’t mean it’s happening more often.

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What is the Realistic Accuracy Model?

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Target -> Relevance -> Availability -> Detection -> Utilization -> Judge

20
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What is a concealable stigma?

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Hiding parts of your identity because it may cause social stigma.

21
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What is sociosexuality?

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Preference for low-investment sexual partners.

22
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Good judges are…?

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Intelligent, socially well adjusted, agreeable, know what’s normal.

23
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Traits vs Types

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Traits = distributed amongst people (variance, high on agreeableness, low on aggression)
Types = qualitative differences (Myers-Briggs).
24
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Why is Myers-Briggs problematic?

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Poor validity and reliability. Traits aren’t opposing, can be different levels of both.

25
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Define Narcissism as a trait.

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Bullshittng, charming, good first impressions, manipulative, vain.

26
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What is the dark triad?

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3 traits, Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Narcissism.

27
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What is Eysencks Heirachial Model?

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Includes 3 basic traits; Psycholoicism, Extraversion, Neuroticism (then smaller traits off those)

28
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How many traits for Cattell’s Taxonomy?

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16 traits!

29
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What are “The Big 5” traits?

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O.C.E.A.N - Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.

30
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Person-Environment transaction?

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People seek out environments that suit them.

31
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Methods to test personality change?

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.

32
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Why is the social clock important?

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“Normal life” trajectory, deviation is associate with lower satisfaction and depression.

33
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How many people want to change something about themselves?

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87-97% (no age correlation)

34
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How can you change your personality?

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Psilocybin (drugs), living abroad, general interventions, targeted intervention, psychotherapy.

35
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What is the Biological approach to measuring personality?

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Correlates the brain with thoughts/feelings/behaviours.

36
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What is a con of the biological approach?

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Mostly inferential (except when lots of prior evidence)

37
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What two aspects of the brain can be examined?

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Anatomy (functions) and Biochemistry.

38
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How do we learn about how brain function is related to personality?

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Lesions, Brain stimulations, Brain scans.

39
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Two types of Brain Stimulations?

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TMS and tDCS

40
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Two types of Brain Scans?

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fMRI and EEG

41
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What does an fMRI view?

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Blood oxygenation in active areas (just more active than the rest of the brain).

42
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What does an EEG view?

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The electric activity of active neurons in the brain.

43
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What is a network analysis?

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Emphasises the interconnectedness of the brain (no happy area, just a happy network).

44
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What are neurotransmitters?

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How neurons communicate, chemical and electric signals.

45
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What are two different processes that involve individuals pairing together?

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Maximisation and Equalization.

46
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Why are ambiguous stimuli important for TAT?

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To assess motives (personality). Underlying needs we are wanting to satisfy.

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