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Chapter 13 - Personality (Gerrig and Zimbardo, 18th Edition)

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Personality   the complex set of psychological qualities that influence an individual's characteristic patterns of behavior across different situations and over time  
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Hippocrates   theory based on bodily fluids, a person's personality was based on which is the most prevalent fluid  
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Hippocrates - Blood   sanguine temperament; cheerful and active  
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Hippocrates - Phlegm   phlegmatic temperatment; apathetic and sluggish  
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Hippocrates - Balck Bile   melancholy temperament; apathetic and sluggish  
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Hippocrates - Yellow Bile   choleric temperament; irritable and excitable  
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Sheldon   created a theory of personalities based on body type  
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Sheldon - Endomorphic   Body: fat, soft, round. Personality: relaxed, fond of eating, sociable  
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Sheldon - Mesomorphic   Body: muscular, rectangular, strong. Personality: filled with energy, courage, and assertive tendencies  
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Sheldon - Ectomorph   Body: thin, long, fragile. Personality: brainy, artistic, and introverted  
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Sulloway   created a personality theory based on birth order  
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Sulloway - Firstborn   command their parents' love and attention; seek to maintain initial attachment bu identifying and complying with their parents  
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Sulloway - Laterborn   "born to rebel," seek to excel in those domains where older siblings have not already established superiority  
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Allport   trait theory, traits are the building blocks of personaltiy and the source of individuality  
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Traits may act as _____ ______, relating sets of stimuli and responses that might seem, at first glance, to have little to do with eachother.   intervening variables  
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How many kinds of traits did Allport identify?   3: cardinal, central, secondary  
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Cardinal Traits   traits that people organize their life around  
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Central Traits   traits that represent major characteristics of a person, like honesty or optimism  
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Secondary Traits   specific personal features that help predict and individual's behavior but are not as useful in understanding an individual's personality  
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Cattelle   "SOURCE TRAITS" 16 factors that underlie human personality presented as oppositions like reserved vs. outgoing  
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Eyesnck   two broad dimensions from personality test data" EXTRAVERSION and NEUROTICISM  
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Heritability studies sho what?   That almost all ersonality traits are influenced by genetic factors  
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Freud's view on personality:   all behavior is motivated  
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Psychic Determinism   the assumption that all mental and behavioral reactions are determined by earlier experiences  
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Structure of Personality   personality differences arise from the different ways in which people deal with their fundamental drives  
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Defense Mechanisms   mental strategies used to defend onesself in the daily conflict between id impulses that seek expression and the superego's demand to deny them  
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Adler   rejected the significances of Eros and the pleasure principle; as helpless, small children people all experience feelings of inferiority. All lives are dominated by the search for ways to overcome those feelings  
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Jung   the unconscious is not limited to an individual's unique life experiences, instead its filled with fundamental psychological truths (the collective unconscious)  
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archetype   a primitive symbolic representation of a particular experience or object  
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Rogers   UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD, children should feel they will always be loved and approved of, in spite of their mistakes and misbehavior  
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What are the 3 ideals of humanistic theories?   Holistic, Dispositional, Phenomenological  
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What does it mean to be holistic?   not seen as the sum of discrete traits, people's separate acts are explained interms of their entire personalities  
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What does it mean to be dispositional?   they focus on innate qualities within a person that exert a major influence over the direction behavior will take  
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What does it mean to be phenomenological?   emphasize an individual's fram of reference and subjective view of reality  
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Mischel's Cognitive Affective   people actively participate in the cognitive organization of their interactions with the environment, it is important to understand how behavior arises as a function of interactions between persons and situations  
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Bandura's Cognitive Social Learning   a complex interaction of individual factors, behavior, and environmental stimuli. each can influence or change the others and the direction is usually reciprocal "RECIPROCAL DETERMINISM"  
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Cantor's Social Intelligence   based on 3 types of individual differences: Choice of Life Goals, Knowledge relevant to social interactions, Strategies for implementing goals  
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Self-concept   a dynamic mental structure that motivates, interprets, organizes, mediates, and regulates interpersonal and intrapersonal behaviors and processes  
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Possible Selves   the ideal selves that we would very much like to become, they are also the selves we could become and the selves that we are afraid of becoming  
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Self-esteem   a generalized evaluation of the self  
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5 basic differences in personality theories   1: Heredity vs. Environment, 2:Learning Processes vs. Innate Laws of Behavior, 3:Emphasis on Past, Present, or Future, 4:Consciousness vs. Unconsciousness, 5:Inner Disposition vs. Outer Situation  
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MMPI   Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, validity scales and clinical scales  
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Neo-PI   NEO Personality Inventory, asseses personality characteristics in non-clinical adult populations  
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Rorshach   Ink blot test scored on location, content, and determinants  
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TAT   Thematic Apperception Test, Murray, respondents are shown pictures and asked to generate stories about them  
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projective tests   a person is given a series of stimuli that are purposely ambiguous such as abstract patterns that can be interpreted in many different ways  
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