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Personality Flashcards

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Define Personality

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Relatively stable psychological structures and processes that organize human experience
and shape a person’s actions and reactions to the environment.

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What 3 parts make up the structure of personality

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> Personality Care
Typical Response
Role Related Behaviours

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Explain Personality Care

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> Early Development
Perception, values interests, motives
Least likely to change

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Explain Typical Responses

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Predictable behaviours and reacting to environments

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Role Related Behaviours

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> Behaviours influenced by a particular context

> Most likely to change

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Who came up with constitutional theory

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Sheldon (1942)

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Explain Constituional Theory

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People have certain body types (somatotypes) & this predisposes them to certain behvaiours. Correlations .7 between body types and traits.

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Name the 6 body types in Constitutional Theory

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> Ectomorph
> Cerebrotonia
> Endomorph
> Visceratonia
> Mesomorph 
> Somatotonia
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Name the traits of an Ectomorph

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> Linearity
Tallness
Leanness

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Name the traits of a Cerebrotonia

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> Tense
Introverted
Socially Restrained

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Name the traits of an Endomorph

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> Plumpness
Fatness
Roundness

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Name the traits of a Visceratonia

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> Affectionate
Sociable
Relaxed

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Name the traits of a Mesomorph

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> Inverted triangle

> “Athletic body”

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Name the traits of a Somatotnia

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> Adventurous & risk-taker
Dominant
Aggressive

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Define Trait

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Enduring, highly consistent internal attributes or behavioural dispositions in a variety of situations

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Briefly describe Eysenck’s Personality Theory

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Relationships between traits generated second-order, superordinate, trait dimensions:
> Extraversion - Introversion
> Neuroticism - Stability
> Psychoticism - Superego

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Name the 5 dimensions of the 5 Factor Model

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> Openness to experience
> Conscientiousness
> Extraversion-Introversion
> Agreeableness
> Neuroticism

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