Session 9 - Personality Flashcards
A process that arouses, maintains and guides behaviour is known as?
Motivation
What are the 4 steps in guiding motivation?
Need –> drive –> response –> goal
A reward or other stimulus that motivates behaviour is known as?
Incentive
Which theory proposes that needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness are critical motivational needs?
Self-determination theory
If you freely choose to do something for enjoyment or to improve abilities, this would be what type of motivation?
Intrinsic
If motivation come from outside a person and stems from things like pay, grades, rewards, obligation, approval, this would be what type of motivation?
Extrinsic
What are the 3 major types of motives?
- Biological motives
- Stimulus motives
- Learned motives
What motives are based on innate needs that must be met for survival, such as thirst and hunger?
Biological motives
What motives are based on innate needs for stimulation and information, such as curiosity and exploration?
Stimulus motives
What motives are based on learned needs, drives and goals, such as the learned need for power and achievement?
Learned motives
What are internal factors are involved in hunger?
- H_______ - regulates emotional behaviours and basic biological needs
- L_______ hypothalamus - hunger “s_____” button
- V_______ hypothalamus - safety “s____” button
- G_______ peptide - released by intestines after eating. involved in ceasing hunger.
- P_______ nucleus (steadies blood sugar) & neuropeptide Y (too much can lead to overeating)
- Hypothalamus
- Lateral, start
- Ventromedial, stop
- Glucagonlike
- Paraventricular
What are external factors involved in hunger? (4)
- External eating cues - signs and signals linked to eating
- Taste aversion
- Emotional eating
- Cultural factors
Which personality test uses a standardised test designed to identify problem areas if functioning in an individuals personality?
MMPI-2 - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Which personality test contains 567 items which are answered as true or false?
MMPI-2
What type of personality tests use ambiguous or unstructured stimuli to reveal inner workings of personality based on individual perception?
Projective tests
Which personality test allows psychologists to detect emotional disturbances by observing how people perceive the world?
Rorschach Inkblot test
Which projective test consists of 20 different scenes and life situations about which respondents make up stories?
TAT - Thematic Apperception Test.
What are The Big 5 personality traits?
- Extroversion
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
- Neuroticism
- Openness to experience
A persons unique and relatively stable patterns of thinking, emotions and behaviour is known as what?
Personality
A stable quality that a person shows in most situations is known as what?
Personality trait
The visible or observable traits of one’s personality are called?
Surface traits
Traits that are inconsistent or relatively superficial are called?
Secondary traits
Basic underlying traits, or dimensions, of personality are called?
Source traits
What are the 4 categories/perspectives of the Personality Theory?
- T____ theories
- Psychodynamic theories
- H_______ theories
- B______ and social learning theories
- Trait
- Humanistic
- Behaviourist
Which personality theory perspective attempts to learn what traits make up personality and how they relate to actual behaviour?
Trait theories
Which personality theory perspective focuses on the inner workings of personality, especially internal conflicts and struggles?
Psychodynamic theories
Which personality theory perspective stresses private, subjective experience and personal growth?
Humanistic theories
Which personality theory perspective places importance on the external environment and on the effects of conditioning and learning?
Behaviourist and social learning theories
The process of fully developing personal potentials is known as?
Self-actualization
What are the 5 key characteristics in a person with high emotional intelligence?
- Reading emotion
- Perceiving emotion
- Using emotion
- Understanding emotions
- Managing emotions
Which theory proposes that only a handful of characteristics account for most individual difference in personality?
The Big 5 Personality Traits
