Session 9 - Personality

Question 1

A process that arouses, maintains and guides behaviour is known as?

Answer 1

Motivation

Question 2

What are the 4 steps in guiding motivation?

Answer 2

Need –> drive –> response –> goal

Question 3

A reward or other stimulus that motivates behaviour is known as?

Answer 3

Incentive

Question 4

Which theory proposes that needs for competence, autonomy and relatedness are critical motivational needs?

Answer 4

Self-determination theory

Question 5

If you freely choose to do something for enjoyment or to improve abilities, this would be what type of motivation?

Answer 5

Intrinsic

Question 6

If motivation come from outside a person and stems from things like pay, grades, rewards, obligation, approval, this would be what type of motivation?

Answer 6

Extrinsic

Question 7

What are the 3 major types of motives?

Answer 7

1. Biological motives
2. Stimulus motives
3. Learned motives

Question 8

What motives are based on innate needs that must be met for survival, such as thirst and hunger?

Answer 8

Biological motives

Question 9

What motives are based on innate needs for stimulation and information, such as curiosity and exploration?

Answer 9

Stimulus motives

Question 10

What motives are based on learned needs, drives and goals, such as the learned need for power and achievement?

Answer 10

Learned motives

Question 11

What are internal factors are involved in hunger?

1. H_______ - regulates emotional behaviours and basic biological needs
2. L_______ hypothalamus - hunger “s_____” button
3. V_______ hypothalamus - safety “s____” button
4. G_______ peptide - released by intestines after eating. involved in ceasing hunger.
5. P_______ nucleus (steadies blood sugar) & neuropeptide Y (too much can lead to overeating)

Answer 11

1. Hypothalamus
2. Lateral, start
3. Ventromedial, stop
4. Glucagonlike
5. Paraventricular

Question 12

What are external factors involved in hunger? (4)

Answer 12

1. External eating cues - signs and signals linked to eating
2. Taste aversion
3. Emotional eating
4. Cultural factors

Question 13

Which personality test uses a standardised test designed to identify problem areas if functioning in an individuals personality?

Answer 13

MMPI-2 - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Question 14

Which personality test contains 567 items which are answered as true or false?

Answer 14

MMPI-2

Question 15

What type of personality tests use ambiguous or unstructured stimuli to reveal inner workings of personality based on individual perception?

Answer 15

Projective tests

Question 16

Which personality test allows psychologists to detect emotional disturbances by observing how people perceive the world?

Answer 16

Rorschach Inkblot test

Question 17

Which projective test consists of 20 different scenes and life situations about which respondents make up stories?

Answer 17

TAT - Thematic Apperception Test.

Question 18

What are The Big 5 personality traits?

Answer 18

1. Extroversion
2. Agreeableness
3. Conscientiousness
4. Neuroticism
5. Openness to experience

Question 19

A persons unique and relatively stable patterns of thinking, emotions and behaviour is known as what?

Answer 19

Personality

Question 20

A stable quality that a person shows in most situations is known as what?

Answer 20

Personality trait

Question 21

The visible or observable traits of one’s personality are called?

Answer 21

Surface traits

Question 22

Traits that are inconsistent or relatively superficial are called?

Answer 22

Secondary traits

Question 23

Basic underlying traits, or dimensions, of personality are called?

Answer 23

Source traits

Question 24

What are the 4 categories/perspectives of the Personality Theory?

1. T____ theories
2. Psychodynamic theories
3. H_______ theories
4. B______ and social learning theories

Answer 24

1. Trait
2. Humanistic
3. Behaviourist

Question 25

Which personality theory perspective attempts to learn what traits make up personality and how they relate to actual behaviour?

Answer 25

Trait theories

Question 26

Which personality theory perspective focuses on the inner workings of personality, especially internal conflicts and struggles?

Answer 26

Psychodynamic theories

Question 27

Which personality theory perspective stresses private, subjective experience and personal growth?

Answer 27

Humanistic theories

Question 28

Which personality theory perspective places importance on the external environment and on the effects of conditioning and learning?

Answer 28

Behaviourist and social learning theories

Question 29

The process of fully developing personal potentials is known as?

Answer 29

Self-actualization

Question 30

What are the 5 key characteristics in a person with high emotional intelligence?

Answer 30

1. Reading emotion 2. Perceiving emotion 3. Using emotion 4. Understanding emotions 5. Managing emotions

Question 31

Which theory proposes that only a handful of characteristics account for most individual difference in personality?

Answer 31

The Big 5 Personality Traits