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Unit 10 quiz 2
Personality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act in a certain way, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports | trait |
| a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to asses selected personality traits | personality inventory |
| most widely researched and clinically used personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) |
| a test created by selecting from a pool of items those that discriminate between groups | empirically derived test |
| views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people's traits and their social context | social-cognitive perspective |
| focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development | behavioral approach |
| the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and enviornment | reciprocal determinism |
| assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions | self |
| overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders | spotlight effect |
| one's feelings of high or low self-worth | self-esteem |
| one's sense of competence and effectiveness | self-efficacy |
| a readiness to perceive oneself favorably | self-serving bias |
| excessive self love and self absorption | narcissism |
| giving priority to one's own goals above the groups goals and defining oneself in terms of personal atrributes | individualism |
| giving priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly | collectivism |