Chapter 12 Flashcards
Personality
One’s characteristic pattern of thinking and feeling that remains relatively consistent over time and situations
Idiographic approach
Create descriptions of one’s specific traits
Nomothetic Approach
Examine personality in large groups and try to make generalizations
Personality Trait
psychological trait that makes up a part of one’s personality
Factor Analysis
Used to group items that people respond to similarly
Five Factor Model
A theory of personality based on the finding that personality can be described using five components
HEXACO model
Adds honesty-humility to the personality model
The Dark Triad
Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism
Machiavellianism
Manipulation
Psychopathy
Low emotional responses
Narcissism
Egotistical
Right Wing Authoritarianism
Personality traits that promote antisocial and violent behaviours
Temperaments
Innate behaviour that personality is built in
Major time period for personality change
Late adolescence, early adulthood
State
Temporary engagement that influences behaviour
Reciprocal determinism
Internal factors and external situational factors influence each other
Humourism
Explained illnesses due to fluid imbalances
Phrenology
Traits predicted by shape of skull
Arousal Theory of Extraversion
Extraversion depends on one’s threshold for arousal
Ascending Reticular Activating System
Plays a role in arousal
Behavioural Activation System
Go
Behavioural Inhibition System
Stop
Response styles
Characteristic ways of responding to questions
id
Urge towards sex and aggression
