Unit 10- Personality Flashcards

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Personality trait

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Unable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations

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Personality

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An individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits

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Factor analysis

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Correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables

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Who created factor analysis and got 171 traits to 16

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Raymond Cattell

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How many basic dimensions are in favor analysis

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16

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Who created the five factor model

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Robert McRae and Paul costa

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: worried insecure self pitying

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Neuroticism

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Neuroticism

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Negative emotions

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: sociable fun loving affectionate

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Extroversion

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Extraversion

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Positive emotion

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: imaginative preference for variety independent

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Openness to experience

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: softhearted trusting helpful

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Agreeableness

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What factor from the big 5 correlates with: well organized careful self disciplines

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Conscientious

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What are liberals most likely to score high in?

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Openness to experience

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Structure of personality is composed of

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Id ego superego

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Primitive component of personality that operates according to the pleasure principle

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Id

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Decision making component of personality that operates according to the reality principle

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Ego

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Reality principle

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Seeks to delay gratification of the ids urges until appropriate outlets and situations can be found

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Moral component of personality that incorporates social standards about what represents right and wrong

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Superego

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Consists of whatever one is aware of at a particular moment

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Conscious

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Contains material just beneath the surface of awareness that can easily be retrieved

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Preconscious

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Contains thoughts memories and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence of behavior

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Unconscious

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What urges control sigmund freuds psychoanalytic theory

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Sexual urges and aggression

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Unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions like anxiety and guilt

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Defense mechanisms

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Creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior
Rationalization
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Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious
Repression
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Attributing ones own thoughts feelings or motives to another
Projection
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Diverting emotional feelings from their original source to a sub target
Displacement
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Reversion to immature patterns of behavior
Regression
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Bolstering self esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group
Identification
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Psychosexual stages
Developmental periods with a characteristic sexual focus that leave their mark on adult personality
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Fixation
Failure to move forward from one stage to another as expected
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Oedipal complex
Children manifest erotically tinged desires for their opposite sex parent accompanied with hostility toward their same sex parent
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What is carl jungs version of the unconscious
Personal unconscious
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What is the deeper layer of the personal unconscious
Collective unconscious
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Emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning
Archetypes
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What does Alfred Adler focus his psychoanalytical theory on
Superiority
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Compensation
Involves efforts to overcome imagines of real inferiorities by developing ones ability
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Exaggerated feelinga of weakness
Inferiority complex
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Theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior
Behaviorism
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Skinners view of a persons personality
Collection of response tendencies that are ties to various stimulus situations
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Social learning theory creator
Albert bandura
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Reciprocal determinism
Environment determines behavior but behavior determines environment
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Observational learning
Occurs when an organisms responding is influenced by the observation of others
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Ones belief abouf ones ability to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes
Self efficiency
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Humanism
Theory that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth
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Phenomenological approach
Assumes that one has to appreciate individual's personal experiences to rules understand their behavior
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Founder of human potential movement
Carl Rogers
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Person centered theory
Emphasis on persons subjective point of view
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Collection of beliefs about ones own nature
Self concept
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Degree of disparity between ones self concept and ones actual experience
In congruence
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Hierarchy of needs
Systematic arrangement of needs according to priority in which basic needs must be met before less basic
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Who created the theory of self actualization
Carl Maslow
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Need for self actualization
Need to fulfill ones potential
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Hans Eysenck believes
Peoples personalitys come from their genes
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Eysenck believes that personality traits come from what things?
Extra version, neuroticism, and psychoticism
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University of Minnesota study
Test on fraternal twins reared apart
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Terror management theory
Culture provides ways to the world that solve the existential crisis engendered by the awareness of death
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Widely used self report inventory
Mmpi
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How many personality traits are measured in the mmpi
10
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Who created the 16pf
Cattell
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What test measures the big 5
NEO
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Projective tests
Ask participants to respond to vague ambiguous stimuli in ways they may reveal the subjects needs feelings and personality traits
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Ink blots
Rorschach
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TAT
Pictures with stories