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Personality Midterm 1 Flashcards

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What was Carl Rogers’ Theory?

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Unconditional Positive Regard

Parents withheld their love when their children disobeyed.

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What were Sigmund Freud’s Theories?

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Sex Theories

Was raised in a time where sexuality was repressed. Was treated better than his siblings.

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What was Alfred Adler’s Theory?

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Striving for Superiority

Sickly, near-blind, hit by a car twice.

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What was Abraham Maslow’s Theory?

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Hierarchy of Needs

Abusive parents and bullied by neighbourhood gang, felt physically unsafe.

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What do Personality Psychologists Study?

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Psychological Triad
The ‘Whole’ Person
Overlap with Clinical Psychology

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Definition of Personality

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An individuals pattern of thought, emotion and behaviour + the psychological mechanisms behind them.

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What does the Trait Approach focus on?

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How people differ psychologically.

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What does the Biological Approach focus on?

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The mind, based on the body.

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What does the Psychoanalytic Approach focus on?

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Focus on the unconscious mind.

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What is the Phenomenological (Humanistic) Approach ?

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How conscious awareness creates human attributes.

Understanding the meaning/basis of happiness.

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What is the Phenomenological (Cross-Cultural) Approach?

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Seeing how the experience of reality affects different cultures.

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What is learning?

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How behaviour changes based on experiences.

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What does Classic Behaviourism focus on?

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Focuses on overt behaviour.

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What does Social Learning focus on?

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How observation and Self-Evaluation determine behaviour.

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What does Cognitive Personality focus on?

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Focuses on cognitive processes.

ie. memory, perception, etc.

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Personality Psychologists emphasize individual differences. True or False?

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True.

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What is Personality Data?

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Thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

Personality “clues”.

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What is Funder’s Second Law?

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There are no perfect indicators of personality, only ambiguous clues.

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What is a Personality Psychologist’s Job?

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To gather and put together as many personality clues as possible.

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What is Funder’s Third Law?

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Something beats nothing, two times out of three.

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What is S. Data?
(Self-Report Data)

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Data the individual reports about themselves.

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What are the pros of S. Data?

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– large amount of data (you are always with yourself)
– access to thoughts, feelings, and intentions
– face validity (measures what it is supposed to measure)

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What are the cons of S. Data?

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– personal bias (overly negative, overly positive)
– dishonesty / faking and active distortion of memory
– fish and water effect

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What is I. Data?
(Informant Data?)

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Data received from other people, about the individual.

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What are the pros of I. Data?
– large amount of data (many behaviours, many situations, many informants) – not from controlled environments (real world basis) – definitional truth
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What are the cons of I. Data?
– lack of private experience – more likely to remember extreme/unusual behaviour – letter of recommendation effect (+ & - biases)
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What are Life Outcomes?
Real life facts with psychological significance.
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Pros and Cons of Life Outcomes?
pros: less prone to bias cons: may violate privacy / be difficult to access
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What is Behavioural Data?
Observations of behaviour in a lab. (can come from personality tests)
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What is Natural B. Data?
Observations of behaviour in real life. (body cams, written/audio diaries, social media)
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Pros and Cons of Natural B. Data?
pros: realistic cons: desired context uncommon
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What is Lab B. Data?
Controlled environments and situations, representing real life conditions otherwise difficult to observe.
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Pros and Cons of Lab B. Data?
pros: range of contexts, appearance of objectivity cons: difficult and expensive
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Pros and Cons of Lab B. Data?
pros: range of contexts, appearance of objectivity cons: difficult and expensive
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What is Mixed Data?
Data that does not always fit into one category.
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What is Reliability?
The tendency for a measurement to provide the same result (always wrong or always right) on repeated occasions.
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What is Measurement Error?
The effect multiple influences have on a test score.
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Explain State vs. Trait.
Trait is when a person has a behavioural tendency at all times. State is when a person exhibits that behaviour for a specific reason (typically a short time).
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What are some things that can undermine Quality of Data?
– low precision of measurement – state of participants or examiner – variation in environment
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What are some things that can enhance Quality of Data?
– being careful – following a procedure – aggregation
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What is Validity?
How true the test/measurements are.
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What is Generalizability?
How accurate the results of a study will be when applied to a broad group of people.
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Purpose, pros, and cons of Case Method/Case Study?
purpose: explain events, general lessons, science principals pros: source for ideas, helps to understand individuals cons: unknown generalizability
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Purpose of Experimental Method?
purpose: establish causal relationship between dependent and independent variables (requires random assignment to control and experimental groups)
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What is the Correlation Coefficient?
A measure of how strong the correlation between two variables is. !correlation ≠ causation!
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What is Behavioural Observation?
Recording the behaviour of a person.
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What are Unstructured vs. Structured Interviews?
unstructured: typically client led "conversation" (questionable validity) structured: strict question and answer (move valid)
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What is Document Analysis/Life Stories?
Analysis of client's writings (letters, diaries, etc.)
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What are Projective Tests?
Unstructured/Ambiguous task or situation, where the client projects their fears, hopes, dreams, etc. ie. Rorschach Ink Blot Test
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What is Personality tied to? (Henry Stack Sullivan)
Personality is tied to social situations.
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What is the Illusion of Individuality?
We become "different" people in different social situations.
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What is Henry S. Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry?
Psychological development is based in the reactions of our peers.
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What is Situationism?
The belief that behaviour is driven by situation, and personality is pretty much irrelevant.
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What is a Behavioural Signature?
The commonality of a relationship between situation and a person's behaviour. (can make their behaviour/personality seem more consistent)
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What is an Expectancy?
What we expect the outcome of our behaviours will be. A factor believed to determine behaviour.
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What did Mischel believe?
Behaviour is MOSTLY due to situational or environmental factors.
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How can Personality Psychologists increase their ability to predict behaviour?
– move out of labs – focus on behavioural trends – try better methodology
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What is Interactionism?
The idea that people's personalities depend on a situation and vice versa.
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What does O.C.E.A.N. stand for?
Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism

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