module 12 : personality Flashcards

1
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personality

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an enduring set of internal characteristics that produce uniqueness and consistency in the way one acts

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2
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psychodynamic perspectives

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Freud
Neo freudian :
Jung
Adler
Horney

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3
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Freuds patients

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all girls having “nervous disorders”
Hysteria : “uterus”

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4
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Freuds ice berg model

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conscious
preconscious
unconscious

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5
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conscious

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what we are aware of

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6
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preconscious

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normally unaware, we can retrieve this information from memories

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unconscious

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most influential part, needs special techniques to access them

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tools to access unconscious

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hypnosis
free association
dream analysis

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9
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free association

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freely share our feelings, thoughts, emotions
Therapy

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dream analysis

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manifest content : what the dreamer remembers
latent content : reflexion of true feelings, underlying meaning

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11
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id

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how I want to behave
Pleasure principle
- sexual and agressive urges
- animalistic
- basic human needs

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ego

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how do I behave
Reality principle
- mediates between id and superego
- how to express id in a socially acceptable matter

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superego

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how should i behave
Based on morality
- compass of what’s right and wrong
- ego ideal and consciousness (pride and shame)

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14
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eros

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sexual urges

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15
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thanatos

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agressive impulses

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16
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reality anxiety

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concerns real life danger (ego)

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moral anxiety

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when superego is alerted to possibly violate moral code

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18
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neurotic anxiety

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concerns ego might be aware of id might start acting up

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19
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repression

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sexual assault
- forget all details

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20
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reaction formation

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when a closed gay tries to hide behind homophobia

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21
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projection

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pretending everyone else cheated too to feel better about myself

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22
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regression

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reacting in a way you would in earlier stage (throwing a fit)

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23
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sublimation

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transforming unacceptable impulses into something socially acceptable (kink doctor)

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24
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denial

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refusing the obvious truth

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25
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rationalization

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trying to justify unacceptable actions

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26
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displacement

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takes out anger on someone else

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27
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5 stages : psychosexual

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oral
anal
phallic
latency
genital

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28
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oral

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pleasure comes from mouth

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29
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anal

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pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder

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30
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phallic

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pleasure zone is genitals

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31
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latency

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dominant sexual feelings

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32
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genital

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maturation of sexual interests

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33
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evaluating freud

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his study was bias
when who were seeking help “unhealthy personalities”

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34
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Jung’s analytic perspective

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collective unconscious and archetypes

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35
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collective unconscious

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memories and experiences are interconnected though past experiences to other individuals across generations and locations

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36
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archetypes

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universals thoughts patterns ans behaviours triggered by specific situations
3 (types)

37
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persona

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act to get along with others (super ego)

38
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shadow

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more dark and primitive side of personality (id)

39
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self

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most important, unites other aspects of personality (ego)

40
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Adlers individual perspecticve

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Social interest
Supuority vs inferiority complex (when can’t complete stage of development)
Personal achievement

41
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Horneys interpersonal perspective

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social security, basic anxiety, basic hostility, moving forward, against, away

42
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social security

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feeling safe and love by the people surrounding us

43
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basic anxiety

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don’t feel safe or loved in their social circle

44
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basic hostility

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emerges when they believe that significant other is not helping to create secure environment

45
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moving toward people

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speaking and behaving in a way people with like and take care of them

46
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moving away from people

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withdraw emotions in hopes that others not be able to harm them

47
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moving against people

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hurt them before they hurt me

48
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evaluating Neo-freudian perspective

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  • their theories are non-testable
  • they expended freud theory into Anthropologie (Jung) and social (Horney)
  • learn about unconscious
49
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Humanistic perspective

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Maslow
Rogers

50
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Maslow motivational perspective

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the hierarchy of needs :
self-actualization
esteem
love/belonging
safety
physiological

51
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physiological

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house, sleep, food, sexual

52
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safety

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work, property, health, family

53
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love/belonging

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friendship, family, intimacy

54
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esteem

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self- esteem, respect by others

55
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self-actualization

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to reach full potential

56
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rogers self theory

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self-concept
self-esteem
conditional positive regard
unconditional positive regard

57
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self-concept

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how one perceives their own characteristics, skills, qualities, and abilities

58
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self-esteem

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how a person positively or negatively vine themselves based on their evaluation on themselves based on life experience

59
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conditional positive regard

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placing limits on the acceptance of a person

60
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unconditional positive regard

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acceptance no matter what

61
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evaluating humanistic perspectives

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  • more positive, encourages self improvement
  • questioning the pyramid because everyones socioeconomic needs are different
62
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social cognitive perspective

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Bandura
Rotter
Gratification

63
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banduras self-systems

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  • self system : is a “set of cognitive tools” that people use to observe, evaluate, regulate they behaviours in different situations
  • self efficacy: people evaluate their own performances
64
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rotters social learning perspective

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locus control : in what degree an individual know what they can and can’t control (or if its outside forces)

65
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internal locus control

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they believe they are in control of their lives (better adjusted)

66
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external locus control

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they believe they lack control of all events
Learn helplessness : everything that happens is out of their control, they cant prevent anything

67
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the delay of gratification

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small quick, or longer but bigger

68
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evaluating the social cognitive perspective

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  • when watts redid research, they didn’t consider the social context of the individual
  • learn conscious awareness
69
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biological perspective

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  • behavioural genetics
  • neurological
  • evolutionary
70
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behavioural genetics perspective

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considers situational variables (socio-economic status)
- concordance rate : the degree in which characteristics, traits, or disease occurs in one twin to another

71
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concordance rate : mono

A

r= .47

72
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concordance rate : diz

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r= .21

73
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neurological perspective

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  • physiological factors (hormones and transmitters)
  • brain activity (arousal and inhibition)
74
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serotonin

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associated with thrill seeking activities
- sensation seekers : desire to take greater and greater risks

75
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ascending reticular activating system (ARAS)

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regulates brain arousal
- Introverts vs extroverts

76
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evolutionary perspective

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adaptive responses
- survival and reproduction

77
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survival

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  • consciousness : health promotion vs risk
  • optimism : more likely to have fewer symptoms (feeling in control = better immune system)
78
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reproduction

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FII (functionally Infertile Individual)
- functionally infertile, but behaves agains sexual acts

79
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evaluating biological perspective

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our behaviour have been shaped with evolution

80
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the trait perspective

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seek to identify what trait compromise personality (enduring)
- Eysenck 3 factor
- 5 factor

81
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Eysenck 3-factor theory

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PEN
- psychoticism - impulse control
- extraversion -introversion
- neuroticism - emotionally stable

82
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5 factor model

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OCEAN
- openness
- consciouness
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- neuroticism

83
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evaluation of the trait perspective

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  • traits can be differentiate between people, but personality can be measured on continuum
  • personality test do not predict behaviours well
84
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methods for measuring

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  • personal interviews
  • observational assessment techniques
  • projective technique
  • psychophysiological assessment techniques
85
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observational assessment techniques

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  • behavioural observations
  • self monitoring
  • thought sampling techniques
86
Q

objective self-report technique

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fixed format
MMPI test

87
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projective techniques

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projective test (lack of reliability, provide verbal material)
- association technique
- construction technique

88
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psychophysiological assesment technique

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  • electrophysiological measures : heartbeat, muscles tension, sweat …
  • biochemical measures : hormones
  • EEG (cortical activity)
  • MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)