Personality Flashcards
(21 cards)
The Big Five trait of ‘openness’ relates to
Flexibility and imagination
Conscientiousness involves the traits:
Reliability and organization
Extraversion is characterized by
Sociability and assertivenes
Neuroticism entails
Tendency toward anxiety and mood swings
Freud’s id operates on the
Pleasure principle
The ego mediates between
Superego and id
Defence mechanisms serve to
Think internally
Reduce anxiety from unacceptable impulses
Bandura’s concept of reciprocal determinism includes behaviour, personal factors, and
Environment
Locus of control is the self perception of what?
One’s degree of control over life events
Rotter’s internal locus correlates with
Proactive coping
Basically the view that they have a large degree of influence over their own life
Rogers’ person-centred theory emphasizes
Unconditional positive regard
Maslow placed self-actualization at
The final level of needs
The MMPI is a measure of
Personality and psychopathology
Projective tests rely on
Think inkblots
Open-ended responses to ambiguous stimuli
The 16PF assesses
16 primary personality factors
Type A personalities are characterized by
Relaxed attitude
Self-efficacy is one’s belief in
Ability to succeed in specific situations
Narcissistic personality disorder features
Grandiosity and need for admiration
The HEXACO model adds honesty-humility to
The HEXACO model of personality is a six-factor model that describes individual differences in six broad personality traits: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience
Big Five traits
The Big Five model, also known as the Five-Factor Model (FFM), is a widely used psychological framework that describes personality in terms of five broad dimensions: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
Behavioural genetics finds that about 40–60% of personality variance is due to
Duh
Genetics
Interactionism in personality psychology suggests behaviour results from
Traits × Situations
