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Personality Pt. 1 Flashcards

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Personality

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Refers to an individual’s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling.

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In measuring personality, we try and see how and why individuals differ ___.

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Psychologically.

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We can measure personality in two ways; by examining ___ ___ and ___ ___.

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Prior events, anticipated events.

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Prior Events

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How prior events (genes) shape an individual.

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Anticipated Events

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How past and present interact.

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Self-Report

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Refers to a series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behaviour or mental state.

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What does MMPI-2 stand for?

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

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What is the MMPI-2?

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A well researched clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems.

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MMPI-2 is based upon the ___ method.

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Actuarial.

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MMPI-2 has __ main subscales.

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10.

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MMPI-2 measures tendencies towards ___ concerns.

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Clinical.

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MMPI-2 has ___ scales to assess attitudes toward test taking and tendency to distort results.

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Validity.

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Projection Techniques

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Consist of a standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual’s personality.

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What is the idea of Projection Techniques based upon?

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People will project personality factors unconsciously onto ambiguous stimuli without censoring.

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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A projective personality test in which individual interpretation of the meaning of a set of unstructured inkblots is analyzed to identify a respondent’s inner feelings and interpret his or her personality structure.

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Thematic Apperception Test

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A projective personality test in which respondents reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world through the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people.

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Criticism of Projection Techniques:

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There is sparse evidence of predictive value, the tests are open to examiner’s subjective interpretation and theoretic bias, and the interpretations could be examiner’s own projections.

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Prior events approach was used by ___ ___.

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Gordon Allport.

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Gordon Allport believed that…

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People can be described in terms of traits just as an object can be described in terms of its properties.

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Trait

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Refers to a relatively stable disposition to behave in a particular and consistent way.

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Anticipated events approach was used by ___ ___.

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Henry Murray.

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Henry Murray suggested that…

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Traits reflect motives.

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Personality represented in language suggests ___ potential traits.

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18 000.

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In personality represented in language, ___ and ___ are at higher levels, making up the core of the personality, while ___ and ___ are at lower levels, making up the rest of personality.

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General and abstract, specific and concrete.

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Cattell came up with the ___ ___ theory of personality

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16-factor.

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Eysenck came up with the ___ ___ theory of personality.

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Two-factor.

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What are the two dimensions of personality in the Two-factor theory of personality?

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Extrovert/introvert and emotionally stable/unstable.

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The Five-Factor Model of Personality is accepted as it accounts for ___ in personality without overlapping traits.

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Variation.

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The Five-Factor Model of Personality is accepted as there have been a large number of ___ conducted on it using different kinds of data.

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Studies.

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The Five-Factor Model of Personality is accepted as it holds across ___ ___. This suggests ___.

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Different participants. Universality.

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The Five-Factor Model of Personality is accepted as it can be associated with predictable patterns of ___ and ___ outcomes.

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Behaviours, social.

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The Five-Factor Model of Personality is accepted as it remains ___ with age.

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Stable.

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Evidence that traits are biological:

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Brain damage or changes in brain chemistry can trigger personality changes.

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Using heritability coefficients, the average genetic components of personality range from ___ to ___.

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0.40-0.60.

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Growing up in the same environment does/doesn’t appear to make people more similar.

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Doesn’t.

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Who made humans observe hyenas and use personality scales to rate them?

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Gosling.

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What was significant about Gosling’s findings?

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He found five dimensions that resembled the Big Five traits.

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Eysenck speculated that extroversion and introversion arrises from differences in ___.

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Alertness.

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Extroverts seek ___ ___, and their reticular formation which controls arousal and alertness is/isn’t easily stimulated.

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Social interaction, isn’t.

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Introverts seek to avoid ___ ___, and their reticular formation which controls arousal and alertness is/isn’t easily stimulated.

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Social interaction, is.

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Extroverts perform tasks well in…

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Noisy and loud environments.

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Introverts perform tasks well in…

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Tranquil environments.

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What did Gray propose?

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The dimensions of extroversion and introversion, as well as neuroticism reflect two basic brain waves.

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What are the two basic brain waves proposed by Gray?

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Behavioural Activation System (BAS) and Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS).

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What did Freud do?

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Approached the study of personality by examining the meanings and insights revealed by careful analysis of the blemishes in person’s thought and behaviour (example Freudian slips).

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According to Freud, personality is understood as a ___ to the person who owns it because we cannot know our deepest ___.

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Mystery, motives.

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Psychodynamic Approach

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An approach that regards personality as formed by needs, strivings, and desires largely operating outside of awareness- motives that can also produce emotional disorders.

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Dynamic Unconscious

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An active system encompassing a lifetime of hidden memories, the person’s deepest instincts and desires, and the person’s inner struggle to control these factors.

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Experiences shape the ___ before we can even put thoughts and feelings into words.

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Mind.

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Id

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The part of the mind containing the drives present at birth; it is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly our sexual and aggressive drives.

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Ego

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The component of personality, developed through contact with the external world, that enables us to deal with life’s practical demand.

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Superego

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The mental system that reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly learned as parents exercize their authority.

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The three systems of mind in Freud’s theory interact and create constant controversy. The dominant system equals the ___ ___.

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Personality structure.

54
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Ego and Superego are governed by ___.

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Anxiety.

55
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Anxiety is a defense position that keeps unacceptable drives from entering ___.

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Consciousness.

56
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Repression

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Motivated forgetting.

57
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fMRI has found decreased activity in ___ during repression.

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Hippocampus.

58
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Defense Mechanisms

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Unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce activity generated by threats from unacceptable impulses.

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Example of defense mechanisms.

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Rationalization, reaction formation, projection, regression, displacement, identification, and sublimation.

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