Trait Theories

Question 1

___ - A pattern of a person’s thought, feelings, motives and behaviors that define them from one another. (Some psychologists take a trait approach to this)

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

____ - A part of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable (describes how we are expected to behave)

Answer 2

Trait

Question 3

____ was a Greek physician that believed that traits come from different fluids in the body (these fluids are known as Humors)

Answer 3

Hippocrates

Question 4

___ - Yellow and is associated with a choleric, quick tempered disposition (people with this type are more aggressive, optimistic, active, impulsive, etc)

Answer 4

Bile

Question 5

____ - Considered to be sanguine and is more of a warm and cheerful personality

Answer 5

Blood

Question 6

___ - Phlegmatic and is sluggish and cool

Answer 6

Phlegm

Question 7

____ ___ - Melancholic but thoughtful

Answer 7

Black bile

Question 8

___ ___ is another trait theorist who found 18,000 descriptive words that could be used to describe someone. Also believed traits were inheritable

Answer 8

Gordon Allport

Question 9

____ traits - Ones that are central to someone’s personality

Answer 9

Cardinal traits

Question 10

___ traits - The rest of the ones that make up our personality

Answer 10

Central traits

Question 11

____ traits - The ones that only come about in a specific situation and can include attitudes and preferences, such as a certain side of the bed you like to sleep on

Answer 11

Secondary traits

Question 12

____ ____ focused on the relationship between two personality dimensions (introversion and extroversion, stability and instability)

Answer 12

Hans Eysenk

Question 13

___ - gain energy while being by themselves

Answer 13

Introverts

Question 14

___ - Gain energy by being around others

Answer 14

Extroverts

Question 15

___ - ___ ____ - Five factors that influence personality (OCEAN, Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism)

Answer 15

Five-Factor model

Question 16

____ - Developed by Raymond Cattell in 1957. 16 traits that we all have in common, but differ on the degree to which it is expressed

Answer 16

16PF