Chapter 11: Personality

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Agreeableness
________ has to do with how easy to get along with someone is.
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Albert Bandura
________ suggested that personality is created by an interaction between the person (traits), the environment, and the persons behavior.
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Psychoanalytic theory
________ is also criticized for overestimating the importance of early childhood and of sex.
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Heritability
________ is a measure of the amount of variation in a trait in a given population that is due to genetics.
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Sublimation
________ is viewed as a particularly healthy defense mechanism.
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Bandura
________ also posited that personality is affected by peoples sense of self- efficacy.
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Idiographic theorists
________ assert that using the same set of terms to classify all people is impossible.
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Self concept
________ is a persons global feeling about himself or herself.
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Hippocrates
________ believed that personality was determined by the relative levels of four humors (fluids) in the body.
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Libido
________ is the energy that directs the life instincts.
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Sheldon
________ identified three body types: endomorphs (fat), mesomorphs (muscular), and ectomorphs (thin)
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Freud
________ posited that the personality consists of three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego.
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Adler
________ is also known for his work about the importance of birth order in shaping personality.
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Extroversion
________ refers to how outgoing or shy someone is.
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emotional style
Temperaments, typically defined as their ________ and characteristic way of dealing with the world.
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Raymond Cattell
________ developed the 16 PF (personality factor) test to measure what he believed were the 16 basic traits present in all people, albeit to different degrees.
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Free
________ will is an idea that has been embraced by humanistic psychology.
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Sigmund Freud
________ believed that ones personality was essentially set in early childhood.
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Gordon Allport
________ believed that although there were common traits useful in describing all people, a full understanding of someones personality was impossible without looking at his or her personal traits.
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Reliability
________ is often likened to consistency; reliable measures yield consistent, similar results even if the results are not accurate.
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id
The ________ is in the unconscious and contains instincts and psychic energy.
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Jung
________ contrasted the personal unconscious with the collective unconscious.
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Factor analysis
________ allows researchers to use correlations between traits in order to see which traits cluster together as factors.
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George Kelly
________ proposed the personal- construct theory of personality.
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term anal retentive
The ________ is used to describe people who are meticulously neat, hyperorganized, and a bit compulsive.
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Kelly
________ argued that people, in their attempts to understand their world, develop their own individual systems of personal constructs.
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thematic apperception test
The ________ (TAT) consists of a number of cards, each of which contains a picture of a person or people in an ambiguous situation.
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Stage theories
________ are ones in which development is thought to be discontinuous.
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
The ________ (MMPI- 2) is one of the most widely used self- report instruments.
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Biological theories of personality
________ view genes, chemicals, and body types as the central determinants of who a person is.
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Self report inventories
________ are essentially questionnaires that ask people to provide information about themselves.
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Projective tests
________ are often used by psychoanalysts.
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Freud
________ believed that much of peoples behavior is controlled by a region of the mind he called the unconscious.
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Adler
________ is called an ego psychologist because he downplayed the importance of the unconscious and focused on the conscious role of the ego.
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Freud
During the oral stage (birth to one year), ________ proposed that children enjoy sucking and biting because it gives them a form of sexual pleasure.
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Adler
________ believed that people are motivated by the fear of failure, which he termed inferiority, and the desire to achieve, which he called superiority.
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Freud
________ contrasted the unconscious mind with the preconscious and the conscious.
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Freud
________ influenced culture more than psychology.
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Freud posited that the personality consists of three parts
the id, the ego, and the superego
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Freud believed two types of instincts exist
Eros (the life instincts) and Thanatos (the death instincts)
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More recently, Paul Costa and Robert McCrae have proposed that personality can be described using the Big Five personality traits
extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and emotional stability (or neuroticism)
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Sheldon identified three body types
endomorphs (fat), mesomorphs (muscular), and ectomorphs (thin)
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**Sigmund Freud**
believed that one’s personality was essentially set in early childhood.
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**Stage theories**
are ones in which development is thought to be discontinuous.
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**oral stage**
(birth to one year) Freud proposed that children enjoy sucking and biting because it gives them a form of sexual pleasure.
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**anal stage**
(one to three years) children are sexually gratified by the act of elimination.
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**phallic stage**
(three to five years) sexual gratification moves to the genitalia.
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**Oedipus crisis**
in which boys sexually desire their mothers and view their fathers as rivals for their mothers’ love, occurs in this stage.
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**Electra crisis**
in which they desire their fathers and see their mothers as competition for his love.
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**Castration anxiety**
the fear that if they misbehave, they will be castrated.
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**identification**
Freud believed that the boys used the defense mechanism of
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**latency**
(six years to puberty), during which they push all their sexual feelings out of conscious awareness (repression).
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**fixation**
could result from being either undergratified or overgratified.
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**oral fixation**
A child who was not fed regularly or who was overly indulged might develop an
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**anal retentive**
is used to describe people who are meticulously neat, hyperorganized, and a bit compulsive.
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**unconscious**
Freud believed that much of people’s behavior is controlled by a region of the mind he called the
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**conscious mind**
contains everything we are thinking about at any one moment, while the preconscious contains everything that we could potentially summon to conscious awareness with ease.
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id, ego, superego
Freud posited that the personality consists of three parts:
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Eros
The life instincts
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Thanatos
the death intincts
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**Libido**
is the energy that directs the life instincts.
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**reality principle**
which means its job is to negotiate between the desires of the id and the limitations of the environment.
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**Repression**
Blocking thoughts out from conscious awareness.
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**Denial**
Not accepting the ego-threatening truth.
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**Displacement**
Redirecting one’s feelings toward another person or object.
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**Projection**
Believing that the feelings one has toward someone else are actually held by the other person and directed at oneself.
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**Reaction formation**
Expressing the opposite of how one truly feels.
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**Regression**
Returning to an earlier, comforting form of behavior.
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**Rationalization**
Coming up with a beneficial result of an undesirable occurrence.
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**Intellectualization**
Undertaking an academic, unemotional study of a topic.
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**Sublimation**
is viewed as a particularly healthy defense mechanism.
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**Karen Horney** and **Nancy Chodorow**
believe that this idea grew out of Freud’s assumption that men were superior to women rather than from any empirical observations.
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collective unconscious
is passed down through the species and, according to Jung, explains certain similarities we see between cultures.
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Adler
is called an ego psychologist because he downplayed the importance of the unconscious and focused on the conscious role of the ego.
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**inferiority**
Adler believed that people are motivated by the fear of failure
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**superiority**
the desire to achieve
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Trait theorists
believe that we can describe people’s personalities by specifying their main characteristics, or traits.
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**Hans Eysenck**
believed that by classifying all people along an introversion-extroversion scale and a stable-unstable scale, we could describe their personalities.
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**Raymond Cattell**
developed the 16 PF (personality factor) test to measure what he believed were the 16 basic traits present in all people, albeit to different degrees.
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**Paul Costa** and **Robert McCrae**
have proposed that personality can be described using the **Big Five** personality traits: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and emotional stability (or neuroticism).
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Extroversion
refers to how outgoing or shy someone is.
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Agreeableness
has to do with how easy to get along with someone is.
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**Factor analysis**
is a statistical technique used to accomplish this feat.
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**Idiographic**
theorists assert that using the same set of terms to classify all people is impossible.
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**Gordon Allport**
believed that although there were common traits useful in describing all people, a full understanding of someone’s personality was impossible without looking at his or her personal traits.
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**Central dispositions**
have a larger influence on personality than **secondary dispositions**
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**Heritability**
is a measure of the amount of variation in a trait in a given population that is due to genetics.
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**Temperaments**
typically defined as their emotional style and characteristic way of dealing with the world.
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**Hippocrates**
believed that personality was determined by the relative levels of four humors (fluids) in the body.
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**William Sheldon’s somatotype theory**
argued that certain personality traits were associated with each of the body types.
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Behaviorist Theories
According to this view, personality is determined by the environment.
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**Albert Bandura**
suggested that personality is created by an interaction between the person (traits), the environment, and the person’s behavior.
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**self-efficacy**
Bandura also posited that personality is affected by people’s sense of
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**George Kelly**
proposed the **personal-construct theory** of personality.
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**fundamental postulate**
that essentially states that people’s behavior is influenced by their cognitions and that by knowing how people have behaved in the past, we can predict how they will act in the future.
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locus of control
A person can be described as having either an internal or an external
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**external locus of control**
generally believe that luck and other forces outside of their own control determine their destinies.
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**Determinism**
is the belief that what happens is dictated by what has happened in the past.
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Self-concept
is a person’s global feeling about himself or herself.
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Third force
Free will is an idea that has been embraced by humanistic psychology.
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