C7 Flashcards
____ studies groups of people in the attempt to identify personality traits that occur in clusters
Nomothetic Approach
____ defines traits by studying individual’s in depth
Idiographic approach
____ is a leading personality theorist definition of personality, a distinctive pattern of behavior, emotions, and thoughts that characterize an individual’s adaptation to his/her life.
Walter Mischel
____ conducted long term case studies and concluded that all people have certain traits that are building blocks of personalities. He believed that understanding traits provided insight into behavioral predispositions. Traits are both enduring and broad in scope.
Gordon Allport
____ is powerful, dominant behavioral predisposition that is an organizing principle in the likes of small number of people ex. Adolf hitler (hatred)
Cardinal trait (Allport)
____ is a major characteristic such as honesty or sensitivity
Central trait (Allport)
_____ generalized and short-term traits that affect people’s behavior in specific circumstances
Secondary traits (Allport)
_____ believes 16 PF predict school success, accident proneness, and marital happiness
Cattell
___ are basic traits that are the center of an individual’s personality
Source traits
____is a technique developed by Freud in which an individual’s revelations of normally unconscious cognitions are interpreted
Psychoanalysis
____ is universal memory bank that contains all ancestral memories, images, symbols, and ideas that humans have accumulated throughout their evolution
Collective unconscious (Carl Jung)
____ is a defense mechanism in which a person diverts his or her impulse-driven behavior from a primary target to secondary targets that will arouse less anxiety
Displacement
____ is a defense mechanism in which an individual reduces anxiety created by unacceptable impulses by attributing those impulses to someone else
Projection
