Chapter 9 - Personality

Question 1

Trait/state distinction

Answer 1

Personality/social psychology
internal/external
Stable/unstable
typical/situational

Question 2

Phrenology

Answer 2

Skull measurements and personality strengths

Question 3

Somatotypes

Answer 3

Body types

Question 4

Ectomorph

Answer 4

Very thin, severe, rigid, easily angered

Question 5

Mesomorph

Answer 5

Muscular, happy, healthy

Question 6

Endomorph

Answer 6

Obese, jolly, happy

Question 7

Psychoanalytic model of personality

Answer 7

Freud; vast majority of personality is unconscious, like an iceberg; ID, Ego, Superego

Question 8

ID

Answer 8

Pleasure principle; seek pleasure avoid pain; newborn baby

Question 9

Ego

Answer 9

Reality principle; partly conscious; ego is shaped by reality and consequences

Question 10

Defense mechanisms

Answer 10

Defend ego from id

Question 11

Projection

Answer 11

“I know you hate me” instead of “I hate you”

Question 12

Regression

Answer 12

Women with marital problems goes back to mom and home

Question 13

Reaction formation

Answer 13

Doing opposite of what your told to feel in control

Question 14

Sublimation

Answer 14

Converting primitve impulses into acceptable behavior

Question 15

Superego

Answer 15

Morality principle; guided by morality

Question 16

Oral

Answer 16

0-2; effects of breastfeeding

Question 17

Anal

Answer 17

2-3; toilet training; OCD or excessively disordered

Question 18

Phallic

Answer 18

3-7; interested in difference between boys and girls;Don’t resolve oedipus complex = homosexuality

Question 19

Latency

Answer 19

7-puberty; “non” stage, nothing happens lol

Question 20

Genital

Answer 20

Adult sexuality; constant through time

Question 21

Analytical Psychology

Answer 21

Carl jung, supposed to be heir to freud

Question 22

Collective unconscious

Answer 22

Jung and analytical psych;Archetypes (element of unconscious), mandala (concentric figure), anima=feminine side, animus=masculine side

Question 23

Behavioral model of personality

Answer 23

Personality learned through: classical conditioning (involuntary behavior), operant (voluntary), observational learning (social)

Question 24

Humanistic Model

Answer 24

Carl Rogers; Unconditional positive regard and love and active listening

Question 25

Active listening

Answer 25

Reflect, evaluate, interpret, reassure, and probe. Reflect is the best

Question 26

Biology affects personalty by...

Answer 26

hormones, drug induces changes. Breeding animals to be aggressive

Question 27

Jerome Kagen

Answer 27

Shyness; 15% outgoing, 15% shy, 70% normal. Normal distribution

Question 28

Identical Twin studies

Answer 28

Similar sense of humor, IQ, religiousness. Heritable index of personality is .7

Question 29

Objective tests

Answer 29

Have anser keys

Question 30

MMPI-2

Answer 30

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory; clinical test to evaluate schizophrenia

Question 31

16-PF

Answer 31

16 personality factprs on bar graph; Cool/reserved --> warm, easygoing

Question 32

MCMI (umiami guy)

Answer 32

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, improvement to MMPI-2

Question 33

NEO-PI

Answer 33

Neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness;NEO like primary colors that mix

Question 34

Projective tests

Answer 34

ambiguity; no answer key

Question 35

Projective hypothesis

Answer 35

If an ambiguous stimuli is shown, what they see reveals the unconscious mind

Question 36

Rorscharch ink blot test

Answer 36

ink blots

Question 37

TAT

Answer 37

Thematic Apperception Test; Shown an image and asked to make a story

Question 38

Incomplete sentence blank

Answer 38

Fill the blank as quickly as possible

Question 39

Type A/B

Answer 39

A=coronry prone personality, always in a hurry, very driven

Question 40

I/E Scale

Answer 40

Internal/external locus of control; plotted on a continuum

Question 41

Optimism/pessimism scale

Answer 41

Parental optimism most dramatically affects it