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personality

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study of an individuals characteristic ways of feeling, acting and thinking

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Four factor theory

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based on 4 humors-blood, black, bile, yellow bile phlegm (what ever you had brought out those personalities)

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Psychoanalytic Model (Freud)

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dependent on libido fixation

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Allport Brothers

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Floyd & Gordon

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Floyd Allport (1890-1978)

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published social psychology, worked with munstenberg

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What did Floyd look at?

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looked at personality shaped by experience

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Gordon Allport (1897-1967)

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american psychologist who is considered the founder of modern personality psychology

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“The study of the undivided personality” (Gordon Allport)

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concept of the self as an unchangeable core of an individual

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Trait

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a stable internal characteristic of an individual that is a determinant of behavior

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Who was the founder of the trait theory?

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Gordon Allport

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What is the trait theory?

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personalities can be analyzed into a finite number of measure able traits

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What did G. Allport believe personality could be divided into?

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into 3 categories single cardinal trait, central traits & secondary traits

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London School

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those that measured individual differences and searched for laws governing these differences

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Who studied intelligence and later on began looking at personality

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spearman & burt

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Raymond Cattell (1905-1998)

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British american psychologist who proposed an influential sixteen-factor model of personality

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Fluid Intelligence

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speed of processing a fact

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crystallized intelligence

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facts, information you already know

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What did Cattell develop?

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a culture-free intelligence test that measured fluid intelligence

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Why did Cattell leave Harvard?

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he needed a fast acting computer for his research

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What did Cattell develop from the computer?

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that personality had a hierarchical structure with broad second-order factors above and two or three narrow first-order factors clusters underneath each of these?

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Who developed the sixteen personality factor questionnaire (16pf)

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Cattell, it’s used to measure each of the first order factors he’d found in his analyses

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Who believed some factors were biologically based, while others environmentally based?

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Cattell

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What did Cattell want to correct through his whole life?

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wanted to correct his 16-factor hierarchical model throughout his life

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Who published theory in there 1950 book of personality?

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Cattell, (a systematic, theoretical and factual study)

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hans eysenck (1916-1997)
german-british psychologist who advanced a three factor theory of personality
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What is the PEN model?
eysenck personality questionnaire based on three-factor theory of personality
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What’s the first factor in PEN
Extraversion
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What’s the second factor of PEN
involved susceptibility to anxiety and emotional stability called neuroticism
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What’s the third factor of PEN
psychoticism
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Where did Eysenck describe his two-factor theory of personality?
in his first book dimensions of personality
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Where did Eysenck publish his modified three-factor theory?
in his book “the structure of human personality”
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Eysenck linked personality structure to what of the nervous system
biological conditions
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Lewis Goldberg (1932-)
american psychologist who developed Goldbergs big five model
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what were goldbergs personality factors?
extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and culture
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Robert McCrae (1949-) Paul Costa (1942-)
american psychologists who developed another big five factor model
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What did McCrae & Costa start with?
NEO-PI, then expanded to OCEAN
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OCEAN
openness to new experiences, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
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What does Goldberg believe about the big 5 model
views it as a descriptive model of personality that reflects an interaction of universal and culturally specific traits
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What did McCrae & Costa believe about the big 5
to be a description of human behavior based on genetically determined biological structures and processes
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What is the newer model developed by Lee + Ashton (2007)
Hexaco model with 6 factods
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HEXACO
Honesty-humility, emotionally, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience
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Henry Murray (1893-1988)
american personality psychologists mostly known for his development of the TAT
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TAT (thematic apperception test) 1935
a projective personality test consisting of a series of ambiguous pictures that the subject is asked to describe
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Julian Rotter (1916-2014)
american psychologist who developed the concept of internal or external control of reinforcement
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Internal locus of control
outcome in life is due to personal effort you did
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external locus of control
outcome of life is based on other people or focuses
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social learning theory of personality
individual differences develop through divergent life histories (Rotter)
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Walter Mischel (1930-2018)
austrian-american psychologist who advocated for a social cognitive approach to personality
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Who investigates the delay of gratification?
Mischel in 1966 & designs the marshmallow task
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In 1968 Mischel published personality and assessment, what did is discuss?
discussing the personality paradox, known as the person vs situation debate
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Social cognitive approach to personality
a model of personality proposing that behavior is driven by the individuals unique interpretation of a given situation
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Bonnie Strickland (1936-)
american psychologist who studied the mental health of persons and groups, who are marginalized from mainstream society
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What did strickland find at the time of the civil rights movement?
found that black activists had strong internal locus of control compared with non-activists
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Delay of gratification (marshmallow study) was greater in who?
greater in presence of black experimenters vs white ones
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Who developed an internal-external locus of control scale for children?
Bonnie Strickland
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What did strickland find looking at career aspirations between black & white children?
career aspirations of black children and found it to be lower than that of white children due to economical disadvantage

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