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Myers Module 35
Contemporary Research on Personality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Trait | a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports |
| Factor Analysis | a statistic procedure that has been used to identify clusters of related test item |
| Personality Inventories | a questionnaire where people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to asses selected personality traits |
| MN Miltiphastic Personality Inventory | most widely used personality test Originally designed to identify emotional disorders, now used for many other screenings. |
| Empirically derived test | a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups |
| The Big Five | conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion- todays common currency for personality psychology |
| Social-cognitive perspective | views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context |
| Reciprocal determinism | the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors |
| Personal control | our sense of controlling or controlled by our environment |
| External locus of control | the perception of chance or outside forces beyond ones personal control determines their fate |
| Internal locus of control | the perception that one controls ones own fate |
| Learned helplessness | the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events. |
| Positive Psychology | the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive |
| Possible selves | visions of the self you dream of becoming and the self you fear of coming |
| Spotlight Effect | overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if a spotlight were on us) |
| Self-Esteem | feeling of high or low self worth |
| Self serving bias | our readiness to perceive ourselves favorably |
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