personality pt 2 Flashcards
self-concept
our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
ideal self
person we would like to be
real life
person who we actually are
congruence
state of being in which our thoughts about our real and ideal selves are very similar
incongruence
state of being in which there is a great discrepancy between our real and ideal selves
traits
characteristic ways of behaving
temperament
how a person reacts to the world, including their activity level, starting when they are very young
five-factor model
theory that personality is composed of five factors, including openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
personality test composed of a series of true/false questions in order to establish a clinical profile of an individual
projective test
personality assessment in which a person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing hidden feelings, impulses, and desires