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Personality Flashcards

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What is personality?

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Lecture 3, slide 4-5

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What are the conceptual approaches to study personality?

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Lecture 3, slide 6

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What are personality traits? What are personality types?

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Lecture 3, slide 7-8

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How do we work out how many personality traits we have/ how has this been determined in the past? What did Cattell do?

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Lecture 3, slide 10-12

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What is the Big 5? What do opponents of the theory say about it?

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Lecture 3, slide 13-16

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What is the problem with FA?

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Lecture 3, slide 18

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What is the Gigantic Three? How did Eysenck explain extraversion?

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Lecture 3, slide 19-21

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How has Eysenck’s explanation of extraversion been investigated?

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Lecture 3, slide 22-24

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What is the Gigantic Three? Evaluate this model.

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Lecture 3, slide 25

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How does the Big 5 correlate/compare with the Gigantic 3?

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Lecture 3, slide 26-27

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What traits correlate with academic performance?

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Lecture 3, slide 30

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What traits correlate with job performance?

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Lecture 3, slide 32-33

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What personality traits correlate with relationship length and between people in a relationship?

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Lecture 3, slide 35-37

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What is assortative mating?

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Assortative mating (also referred to as positive assortative mating or homogamy) is a mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern.

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15
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What traits correlate with health/mortality?

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Lecture 3, slide 39-40

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16
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What traits correlate with happiness?

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Lecture 3, slide 42

17
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What is temperament? What are the similarities and differences between temperament and personality?

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Lecture 3, slide 45

18
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What did Chess and Thomas’ studies of temperament reveal?

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Lecture 3, slide 46

19
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What is the Dunedin study? How was temperament investigated in the Dunedin study?

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Lecture 3, slide 47-50

20
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What did cluster analysis of temperament data in the Dunedin study reveal?

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Lecture 3, slide 51

21
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What did they find temperament at age 3 to predict (using the Dunedin study data)?

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Lecture 3, slide 52-56

22
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What are some hypotheses on personality change? Which one is widely accepted?

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Lecture 3, slide 58

23
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What are the different types of personality change?

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Lecture 3, slide 59-60, 69

24
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Describe a study demonstrating mean-level personality changes?

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Lecture 3, slide 61-63

25
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Describe a study demonstrating rank-level personality changes?

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Lecture 3, slide 64-66

26
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How does personality change correlate with life outcomes?

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Lecture 3, slide 68

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