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Session 9 - Personality Flashcards

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A process that arouses, maintains and guides behaviour is known as?

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Motivation

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What are the 4 steps in guiding motivation?

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Need –> drive –> response –> goal

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A reward or other stimulus that motivates behaviour is known as?

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Incentive

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Which theory proposes that needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness are critical motivational needs?

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Self-determination theory

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If you freely choose to do something for enjoyment or to improve abilities, this would be what type of motivation?

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Intrinsic

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If motivation come from outside a person and stems from things like pay, grades, rewards, obligation, approval, this would be what type of motivation?

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Extrinsic

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What are the 3 major types of motives?

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  1. Biological motives
  2. Stimulus motives
  3. Learned motives
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What motives are based on innate needs that must be met for survival, such as thirst and hunger?

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Biological motives

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What motives are based on innate needs for stimulation and information, such as curiosity and exploration?

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Stimulus motives

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What motives are based on learned needs, drives and goals, such as the learned need for power and achievement?

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Learned motives

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What are internal factors are involved in hunger?

  1. H_______ - regulates emotional behaviours and basic biological needs
  2. L_______ hypothalamus - hunger “s_____” button
  3. V_______ hypothalamus - safety “s____” button
  4. G_______ peptide - released by intestines after eating. involved in ceasing hunger.
  5. P_______ nucleus (steadies blood sugar) & neuropeptide Y (too much can lead to overeating)
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  1. Hypothalamus
  2. Lateral, start
  3. Ventromedial, stop
  4. Glucagonlike
  5. Paraventricular
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What are external factors involved in hunger? (4)

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  1. External eating cues - signs and signals linked to eating
  2. Taste aversion
  3. Emotional eating
  4. Cultural factors
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Which personality test uses a standardised test designed to identify problem areas if functioning in an individuals personality?

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MMPI-2 - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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Which personality test contains 567 items which are answered as true or false?

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MMPI-2

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What type of personality tests use ambiguous or unstructured stimuli to reveal inner workings of personality based on individual perception?

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Projective tests

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Which personality test allows psychologists to detect emotional disturbances by observing how people perceive the world?

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Rorschach Inkblot test

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Which projective test consists of 20 different scenes and life situations about which respondents make up stories?

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TAT - Thematic Apperception Test.

18
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What are The Big 5 personality traits?

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  1. Extroversion
  2. Agreeableness
  3. Conscientiousness
  4. Neuroticism
  5. Openness to experience
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A persons unique and relatively stable patterns of thinking, emotions and behaviour is known as what?

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Personality

20
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A stable quality that a person shows in most situations is known as what?

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Personality trait

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The visible or observable traits of one’s personality are called?

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Surface traits

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Traits that are inconsistent or relatively superficial are called?

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Secondary traits

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Basic underlying traits, or dimensions, of personality are called?

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Source traits

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What are the 4 categories/perspectives of the Personality Theory?

  1. T____ theories
  2. Psychodynamic theories
  3. H_______ theories
  4. B______ and social learning theories
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  1. Trait
  2. Humanistic
  3. Behaviourist
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Which personality theory perspective attempts to learn what traits make up personality and how they relate to actual behaviour?

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Trait theories

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Which personality theory perspective focuses on the inner workings of personality, especially internal conflicts and struggles?

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Psychodynamic theories

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Which personality theory perspective stresses private, subjective experience and personal growth?

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Humanistic theories

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Which personality theory perspective places importance on the external environment and on the effects of conditioning and learning?

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Behaviourist and social learning theories

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The process of fully developing personal potentials is known as?

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Self-actualization

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What are the 5 key characteristics in a person with high emotional intelligence?

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  1. Reading emotion
  2. Perceiving emotion
  3. Using emotion
  4. Understanding emotions
  5. Managing emotions
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Which theory proposes that only a handful of characteristics account for most individual difference in personality?

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The Big 5 Personality Traits

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