Myers' Psychology For The Ap: Unit Ten: Personality (Concepts, Part 2)

Front 1

To reduce the number of traits to a few basic ones, psychologists use the statistical process of _____.

Back 1

factor analysis

Front 2

The Eysencks think that two or three _____-influenced personality dimensions are sufficient; these include _____ and emotional _____.

Back 2

genetically; extraversion-introversion; stability-instability

Front 3

Some researches believe that _____ seek stimulation because their level of _____ is relatively _____.

Back 3

extraverts; brain arousal; low

Front 4

Research increasingly reveals that our _____ play an important role in defining our _____.

Back 4

genes; temperament and behavioral sstyle

Front 5

Jerome Kagen attributes differences in children's _____ to automatic nervous system reactivity. Personality differences among dogs, birds, and other animals _____ stable.

Back 5

shyness and inhibition; are

Front 6

Questionnaires that categorize personality traits are called _____. The most widely used of all such personality tests is the _____. Its questions are grouped into _____ clinical scales. This test was developed by testing a large pool of items and selecting those that differentiated particular individuals; in other words, the test was _____ derived.

Back 6

personality inventories; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI); 10; empirically (i.e. experimentally)

Front 7

Researchers have arrived at a cluster of five factors that seem to describe the major features of personality: _____.

Back 7

openness for variety and new experiences, conscientiousness and discipline, extraversion and sociability, agreeableness and soft-heartedness, and neuroticism (a range of stability to instability of emotion).

Front 8

While some traits wane after college, others increase. For example, as young adults mature and learn to manage their commitments, _____ increases. From the thirties through the sixties, _____ increases.

Back 8

conscientiousness; agreeableness