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What does Personality Psychology look at? |
Differences, personality and explaining those differences |
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What is a synonym for Personality? |
Individual differences |
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individual differences are? |
Broad Enduring (ie. not transient) Non-intellectual (ie nor intellectual) Psychological (ie. not physical) |
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What did Prentice (1990) find in the simple "Describe Yourself" experiment? |
Personality got described the most |
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Who argued that humans developed a large brain to handle complex social situations? |
Dunbar |
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Can traits be broken down into mid-level traits, and then low-level traits (then illustrative behaviour)? |
Yes. Extraversion = Sociability or Sensation-seeking Sensation-seeking = Physical (sky-diving) or Sexual (Raunchy personal ads) |
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What did Allport and Oddbert do? |
18000 words |
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Are words like "tall" and "smart" and "talented"and "sad" personality words? |
No, they're physical or cognitive or transient mood descriptors |
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Cattell narrowed the terms down to how many words? |
4500 |
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Through factor analysis, how many "factors" was this narrowed down to? |
16 terms |
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What are some alternative terms for Extraversion? |
sociability, dominance |
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What are some alternative terms for Agreeableness? |
likeability,feeling, nurturance |
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What are some alternative terms for Concientiousness? |
workorientation, prudence |
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What are some alternative terms for Neuroticism? |
emotionality,adjustment |
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What are some alternative terms for Openness? |
intuition, independence, intellectance |
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Is shyness a low-level trait from one of the Big Five, or a blend of two of the Big Five? |
Blend. shyness is a combination of (low)Extraversion and (high) Neuroticism |
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What are Behavioural Correlates of Extraversion? |
Preference for stimulant drugs Quickerreaction time Positiveemotionality |
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What are Behavioural Correlates of Agreeableness? |
Trustingness Cooperationin games Altruisticbehaviour |
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What are Behavioural Correlates of Conscientiousness? |
Longevity of life Workperformance Earlycompletion of REP |
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What are Behavioural Correlates of Neuroticism? |
Vulnerability to depression Negativeemotionality Lowself-esteem |
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What are Behavioural Correlates of Openness? |
Artistic interests Experience Lessprejudice Higherlevels of education\ |
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Is personality trait the biggest predictor of mortality and divorce? |
Yes |
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Is Big Five seen to be universal across cultures and languages?(even across species?) |
Yes and yes |
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What was Eysenck's theory of personality? |
Had a dimensional model consisting of Extraversion and Neuroticism |
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What did Walter Michel argue with Situationism? |
The primary determiner of how you behave is the situation you are put in, not the person you are |
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What did Hartshorne& May (1928) find in Studies of Deceit? |
nGavethousands of 10- to 13-year children multiple behavioural tests of dishonestynLyingnCheatingnStealing
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What did they find? |
Dishonestyvaried widely across situations, with little consistency |
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What is interactionism? |
That personality, situations and the interaction between them all matter. |
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Who challenged the Big Five universality? (The Big Five is akin to discovering there are 7 continents) |
Juni 1991 |
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Did 'indigenous' personality systems find an alignness with the Big Five? |
Yes |
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According to Haslam, is personality universal or cultural? |
Somewhere inbetween |
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Was Jung the first to come up with the MBTI? |
Yes |
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Are there personality 'types' or are you on a continuum? |
According to Nick, there are no 'types' but people exist on a continuum |
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What did Swartz say about his values circle? |
If you score highly in one value, you tend to score lowly in its polar opposite |
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In Haslam's article on extreme sports people, was there consistency between personality traits or values? |
Values |
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Who came up with the VIA (character strengths)? |
Martin Seligman through Positive Psych at Penn uni |
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T or F: Personality can predict behaviour trends? |
T |
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T or F: Personality can predict Motives and goals? |
F: Values and character strengths predict motives and goals |
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What are McAdams levels of Personality? |
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