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Ch 12-Personality
Question | Answer |
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What is a person's UNIQUE pattern of THINKING, emotion, and behavior? | Personality |
What is the CONSISTENCY of who you are, have been, and will become? | Personality |
What are personal CHARACTERISTICS that have been JUDGED or EVALUATED and can be DESIRABLE or UNDESIRABLE qualities? | Character |
What are HEREDITARY aspects of personality, including sensitivity, moods,irritability, and distractibility? | Temperament |
What are STABLE qualities that a person shows in most situations that is used to PREDICT future behavior? | Personality |
How valid is it to speak of personality "types"? | Rating people on a list of traits tends to be more informative that classifying them into two or three types. |
What is the name of the Swiss Psychiatrist who was a Freudian disciple that believed we were one of two personality types? | Carl Jung |
Which personality type is Shy, self-centered person whose attention is focused inward? | Introvert |
Which personality type is Bold, outgoing person whose attention is directed outward? | Extrovert |
What are YOUR ideas, perceptions, and feelings about who you are called? | Self-Concept |
What is a specific evaluation called? | Domain? |
What is it called when people have several traits in common? (ex-athletic type, studious type, punk rocker type)? | Personality Type |
What is a positive evaluation of oneself? (Regards oneself as worthy) | High Self Esteem |
What is a negative self evaluation? (Insecure, lacks confidence)? | Low Self Esteem |
What is a SYSTEM of concepts, assumptions, ideas, and principles proposed to explain personality? | Personality Theory |
What are the FOUR personality theory perspectives | Trait Theories Psychodynamic Theories Behavioristic Theories & Social Learning Theories Humanistic Theories |
Which 2 Theories focus on EXTERNAL environment and on effects of conditioning and learning? | Behavioristic & Social Learning Theories |
What theory is the attempt to learn what trait makes up personality and how they relate to actual behavior? | Trait Theory |
Who analyzes, classifies, and interrelates traits to better understand personality? | Trait Theorists |
Trait theorists often think of traits as _____________________________ & ___________________________. | Biological predispositions & Hereditary readiness of humans to behave in particular ways. |
What traits are Characteristics that are shared by most members of a culture? (America-competitiveness)? | Common Traits |
What trait defines a person's unique personal qualities? | Individual Traits |
Which trait is so basic that all of a person's activities can be traced back to the trait? (Mother Teresa-compassion)? | Cardinal Traits |
What trait is core qualities of a personality? | Central Traits |
What trait is INCONSISTENT or superficial aspects of a person (political opinions, clothing style, etc.) | Secondary Traits |
How many terms were found in the dictionary that were related to personality traits? | 18,000 |
What type of trait is features that make up the visible features of personality? | Surface Traits |
Which type of trait deals with UNDERLYING characteristics of a personality? | Source Traits |
What is a statistical technique used to correlate multiple measurements and identify general underlying factors? | Factor Analysis |
Who created the 16PF(Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire), Personality Test? | Raymond Cattell |
What gives a "picture" of an individual's personality? | Trait Profile |
What is the graph of the scores on several personality traits called? | Trait Profile |
What is the Acronym for Big Five? | O C E A N |
What does the O stand for in O C E A N? | Openness to Experience |
What does the C stand for in O C E A N? | Conscientiousness |
What does the E stand for in O C E A N? | Extroversion |
What does the A stand for in O C E A N? | Agreeableness |
What does the N stand for in O C E A N? | Neuroticism |
What is the degree to which a person is introverted or extroverted? | Extroversion |
What is the act of how friendly, nurturant, and caring a person is opposed to cold, indifferent, self-centered, or spiteful? | Agreeableness |
What is the act of how self-disciplined, responsible, and achieving a person is, as oppose to irresponsible, careless, and undependable | Conscientiousness |
What is the degree to which a person experiences negative, upsetting emotions? | Neuroticism |
What is the degree to which a person is intelligent and open to new ideas? | Openness to Experience |
Who is the Father of the Psychoanalytic Theory? | Sigmund Freud |
Who was a Vietnamese Physician that thought his patients' problems were more emotional that physical? | Sigmund Freud |
What is Psyche? | Freud's term for personality |
Freud's term for personality contains what? (3 words) | id, ego, and superego |
What is the primitive part of personality that remains unconscious, supplies energy, and demands pleasure? | The Id |
How does the Id operate? | It operates via Pleasure principle |
What wishes to have its desires (pleasurable) satisfied without waiting and regardless of the consequences? | Pleasure Principle |
What is Self-serving and irrational? | The Id |
What powers the Psyche with Libido(ENERGY) flowing from both a life instincts(eros) and a death(aggression) instinct(thanatos)? | The Id |
What is the executive part of personality that directs rational behavior? | The Ego |
What directs Id energies? | Executive |
How does the Ego operate? | It operates via reality principle |
What delays action until it is practical and/or appropriate? | Reality Principle |
What is partially conscious and partially unconscious? | The Ego |
What is a JUDGE or censor for thoughts and actions? | The Superego |
Superego comes from _________ or __________ | Our parents or caregivers |
Where does guilt come from? | Superego |
What reflects actions for which a person has been punished? | Conscience |
What reflects behavior one's parents approved of or rewarded? | Ego Ideal |
What is it call when the mind holds repressed memories and emotions and the id's instinctual drives? | Unconscious |
What is it called when you are aware of everything at a given moment including thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and memories? | Conscious |
What is material that can easily be brought into awareness? | Preconscious |
What deals with anxiety by tricking the ego to push unpleasant things → Unconscious | Defense Mechanism |