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35 Cards in this Set
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Class content only
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What causes your behavior?
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Individual differences in enduring patterns of behavior
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Extrovert...
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Outgoing
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Introvert...
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Reflective
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Persistent...
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Doesn't give up
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4 theories of personality
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Biomedical model, conflict/psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive
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biomedical models
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heredity
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Conflict/psychodynamic model
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Early experiences, Subconscious mental activity
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Behavioral model
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Environmental
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Cognitive model
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(Social learning)
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Cognitions
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Beliefs, expectations, thoughts... Defined as covert, but can be reflected in overt behavior... self fulfilling prophecy-thoughts in action
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Psychologists distinguish between...
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Overt behavior and covert behavior
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Overt behavior
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Outdoor behavior
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Covert behavior
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Inside behavior
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Gestalt
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Whole greater than the sum of its parts
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Rene Descartes
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Mind-body, dualism (origin)
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Wundt
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Established first labaratory
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James and the 5 selves
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Wrote series of essays about the 5 selves, which are...
1. Material self (body/clothes) 2. Social self (roles) 3. Spiritual self (thoughts) 4. Pure Ego (identity) 5. Central Active Self (part that observes identity change, change in roles, and change in physical parts |
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Medical Models of personality
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Heredity model, constitutional model, neuropsychological model
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Heredity Model
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Personality caused at conception
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Who Made the inflexible part for the heredity model? What did he use? What does it tell us?
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Kallman used correlational. It tells us the extent that variables are related in the variability of people (Does not prove positive that genetics don't affect personality)
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Who made the flexible part for the heredity model and what did he use? What does it tell us? What is the Stress Diathesis theory?
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Blueler/Meehl uses the interactional. Which states that heredity sets limits and it must be inherited through the gene.
Stress Diathesis theory- Depends on how much stress you're under. |
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Constitutional model
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Focuses on the end-products
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What did Sheldon theorize?
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Idea of Morphology (Body Types)
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Endomorphy
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Extroverted and gregarious *most body fat)
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Mesomorphy
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(Aggressive and assertive (muscular)
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Ectomorphy
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Restrained and self-conscious
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What did Escalona believe in?
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The longitudinal approach
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Longitudinal approach
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Take the same group of people and study them at different times... ex. babies, then 5 months, then another 5 months. (studied activity levels)
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What did the Longitudinal approach identify?
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That there are individual differences
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Neuropsychological model
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Focuses on anatomy and biochemistry
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What is the Rimland and Ras theory?
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Neuroanatomical... Reticular activating system... Showed that brain structure can affect personality
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Physiochemical
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Neurotransmitter substance (Small changes could cause big changes)
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Scantron
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You MUST bring your own scantron
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Extra credit
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Paper worth up to a maximum of 3 points
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