throires of personailty Flashcards
describe trait theory
suggested by Eysenck that traits within a persons personality are innate and enduring characteristics .
these are your extroverts,introverts,stable,neurotic as personalities are fixed consistent and predictable
describe the internationalist theory
personality are a combination of traits and the environment.
name the two interactionist theorists
Hollander and lewin
what is the social learning theory
are personalities do change depending on who we are with = the environment.
we re influenced by what is going on around us.
what is a type a personality
they display characteristics such as impatience ,intolerance and high levels of stress.
trait theories by…
eysenck and cattell
trait theories
traits are fixed and inherited .
they are also stable- unchangeable /predictable
or neurotic-changeable traits e.g aggression –it can increase or decrease depending on the significnce of the game.
what is the relation to the trait theories
it has led to the development of the interactionist theories
interactionist theory
personality is a combination of environment and situations and our inherited characteristics and traits
note- to get an edge say that -are traits are always there at the core of our personality but also our environment also effect changes what characteristcis we will display
describe lewins theory
behaviour is a function of our personality and our environment
what does poms mean
profile of mood states
what is POMS
it is a questionnaire with the purpose of measuring 6 emotions
tention
depression anger vigour(full of energy) fatigue and confusion. to generate a persons t score
what we see is
generally for an elite athlete we see the ice berg profile this is a very huge spike in vigour but relatively similar to the other emotions in comparison to the average gal..
in short sum up POMS
successful performers show the iceberg profile having a much higher vigour score compared to the other 5 negative emotions whereas less successful performers score relatively consistently across all six emotions.
