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psyc1010_ch.11
Chapter 11- Personality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Personality | an individual's consistent patterns of feeling, thinking & behaving |
| Traits | relatively enduring characteristics that influences our behavior across many situations |
| 5 Factor Model of Personality (Big 5) | 5 fundamental underlying trait dimensions that R stable across time, cross-culturally shared & explain a substantial portion of behavior |
| Barnum Effect | observation that people tend to believe in descriptions of their personality that supposedly R descriptive of them but could in fact describe almost anyone |
| MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) | test used around the world to identify personality & psychological disorders |
| Leadership | ability to direct/inspire others to achieve goals |
| Charismatic Leaders | who R enthusiastic, committed & self-confident; tend to talk about the importance of group goals at broad level & make personal sacrifices for group |
| Psychodynamic (Psychology) Approach | approach- understanding human behavior that focuses on role of unconscious thoughts, feelings & memories |
| ID | component of personality that forms the basis of our most primitive impulses |
| SuperEgo | our sense of morality & oughts |
| Ego | component of personality that is largely conscious controller/decision-maker of personality |
| Defense Mechanism | unconscious psychological strategies used to cope w/anxiety & maintain a positive self-image |
| Collective Unconscious | collection of shared ancestral memories (Carl Jung's theory) |
| Self-Concept | set of beliefs about who we R |
| Humanistic Psychology | approach to psychology that embraces the notions of self-esteem, self-actualization & free will |
| Self-Esteem | our positive feeling about the self |
| Self-Actualization | motivation to develop our innate potential to the fullest possible extent |
| Unconditional Positive Regard | set of behaviors including being genuine, open to experience, transparent, able to listen to others, self-disclosing & empathic |
| Gene | basic biological unit-transmits characteristic from 1 generation to the next |
| Behavioral Genetics | variety of research techniques- sscientist use to learn about the genetic & environmental influences on human behavior by comparing the traits of biologically & non-biologically related family members |
| Molecular Genetics | study of which genes R associated with which personality traits |
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