Personality

Question 1

MMPI

Answer 1

A test where it has a lot of questions and you answer true or false

Question 2

California Q Sort

Answer 2

This is when someone gets cards with statements on them. They have to stack the cards from doesn’t sound like me to sounds a lot like me

Question 3

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Answer 3

Looking at a blot telling the person what you see and that would have something to do with your problems

Question 4

Thematic Apperception test

Answer 4

When someones presented with a picture and they have tell a story about the picture (They don’t do a good job)

Question 5

Informant reports

Answer 5

When someone examines a person’s personality and report it

Question 6

Idiosyncratic trait definitions

Answer 6

basically what are definition is define how we view ourselves

Question 7

ID

Answer 7

Sigmond fraud
basic level
pleasure principle (Seek pleasure avoid pain)
Completely submerged

Question 8

Superego

Answer 8

The brakes on ID
Develops in childhood (morality)

Question 9

Ego

Answer 9

Meditate betwen the id and superego
Satisfies ID but keeps superego in mind

Question 10

Unconscious mind

Answer 10

Wishes and desires

Question 11

Preconscious mind

Answer 11

Not in awareness but can be brought up

Question 12

Conscious mind

Answer 12

Tiny fraction

Question 13

Displacement

Answer 13

Shifting emotion to one object to another

Question 14

Projection

Answer 14

Shifting insecurities to others

Question 15

Repression

Answer 15

Exclude certain events (controversial)

Question 16

Denial

Answer 16

Refusing too acknowledge anxiety

Question 17

Trait theory

Answer 17

Gordon Allport was the first to pioneer study personality traits

Question 18

Cardinal

Answer 18

Dominant trait
Ex: MLK’s justice

Question 19

Central

Answer 19

General dispositions
Traits that everyone has

Question 20

Secondary

Answer 20

Relevant in certain contexts
Extrovert being nervous to present something

Question 21

Identifying Central traits

Answer 21

Openness to experience: Independent
Conscientiousness: Organized
Extraversion: Social
Agreeableness: Soft hearted
Neuroticism: Worried

Question 22

Behavioral Inhibition System

Answer 22

Sensitive to Punishment
Linked to neuroticism

Question 23

Behavioral Approach System

Answer 23

Linked to extraversion

Question 24

Meyers Briggs

Answer 24

Personality type keys
Like EITJ

Question 25

The stability of Personality types

Answer 25

Increase in agreeableness and Conscientiousness Decrease Neuroticism and Extraversion

Question 26

Self Concept

Answer 26

An understanding of who you think you are

Question 27

Cocktail party effect

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When your in a crowded room but if someone says like your name or a trait of yours you can clearly hear it

Question 28

Working self concept

Answer 28

The immediate experience of the self --notice that traits stand out

Question 29

Self esteem

Answer 29

The evaluation of one's characterisitcs

Question 30

Global self esteem

Answer 30

Overall self esteem

Question 31

Domain Specific self esteem

Answer 31

Self esteem regarding a specific area

Question 32

Reflected approval

Answer 32

Self esteem is based on how others view us

Question 33

Sociometer theory

Answer 33

Self esteem serves as a measure of social appeal

Question 34

Self serving bias

Answer 34

Characteristic ways of processing info to maintain a positive attitude toward the self

Question 35

Self serving attributions

Answer 35

When you do good you pat yourself on the back but when you do bad you blame it on a professor.

Question 36

Overestimating our contributions

Answer 36

Basically when you think you did the most work in a group project