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24 Cards in this Set
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Trait approach uses what method? |
Correlational |
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trait approach focuses on what? |
Individual differences |
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The ______ of the differences between people, increases with age? |
Stability |
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Situationism |
the situation is more important for determining behavior |
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Fundamental attribution error |
When we blame the personality rather than the situation |
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Personality variable |
Personality traits for describing how people act in general |
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Ego Analysis |
Focus on normal functioning and use of defense mechanisms |
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George Kelly |
Focus on Personal contrasts phenomonlogical |
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Kelly's Construction Corollary |
A person anticipates events by constructiong a corollary based on past experience the past is used to predict the future |
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Kelly's Individual Corollary
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People differ in their construes of events |
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Kelly's Dichotomy Corollary |
All constructs have opposite ends |
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Kelly's Range Corollary |
all constructs can be applied to a certain range of situations (on trial it can be honesty, at a party it can be social) |
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Kelly's definition for anxiety? |
When we do not have a construct to match an event |
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Constructs are ordered ________ |
Heirarchically |
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Experience corollary |
the more experience you have, the better you are at using your past experiences to predict new experiences |
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Gordon Allport |
Focus on the uniqueness of the individual the Proprium Trait Psychology |
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Gordon Allport's Proprium |
1) Lifelong process of which we come to know our selves
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All ports self-identity |
I am separate from other people |
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All port's self-extension |
I exist beyond myself |
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Allport's Rational Coping |
Solving problems using the brain |
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Allport's sene of body |
How you are separate from a blanket |
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Allport common traits |
traits that are obtained by everyone |
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Three types of Allport's Personal traits |
1) Cardinalp- rare 2) Central-- less dominant 2) Secondary- only sometimes |
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Allport's Quantitative Traits |
Focus on every term rom the dictionary that could describe humans so they could be characterized by like trait terms. |
