PSYCH FINAL READINGS!

What biological factors shape personality? What underlies all physiological activity? What is the “master recipe?”

Who studied genetics impacting personality? What did they find? How did the study work?

Genes account for what % of variation in personality?

Adoption studies. What do they say about parenting?

To what degree to genes play a role in personality? What two things shape personality?

Parenting BLANK doesn’t shape personality much, but parenting BLANK does. How does pregnancy influence children’s personalities?

How do genes shape behavior?

What mistake did scientists make when looking for personality genes?

What are epigenetics? How do they shape personality?

What is the trait approach? Most personality psychologists describe personality in terms of BLANK on a continuum. This means that most people fall towards the BLANK of it.

What 2 people went through the dictionary to find personality words? How many did they find?

What did Raymond Cattell try to do? What was the experiment? What kind of analysis did he use? How many dimensions of personality did he find?

Each factor in the big 5 model, has a BLANK. Traits are also called BLANK.

How does culture impact the big 5? What life outcomes does it predict?

For education, high conscientiousness predicts BLANK but not BLANK. Traits describe what?

In the 5 factor model, the factors are BLANK rather than BLANK. What is the problem with reducing personality to only 5 factors?

What parts of the brain are associated with extraversion? What parts match introversion?

What was biological trait theory’s two major dimensions?

High constraint = BLANK psychoticism

High constraint = low psychoticism

Low constraint = BLANK psychoticism

Low constraint = high psychoticism

What is emotional stability? What model is it in?

What third dimension did Eysenck add? Why was the name changed? What factor in the 5 factor model is it most similar to?

How does extroversion and introversion vary with arousal levels?

What did Eysenck say shaped personality?

How has the biological model been refined? What 2 things do they differentiate?

What did Jeffery Gray propose?

RrST: What are the 2 systems? What are their alternate names?

How was RrST changed over time?

BAS reflects BLANK sensitivity, BIS and FFS reflect BLANK

The BAS is linked to what big 5 trait?

The SAPA

What did Rogers say about parents?

Dan McAdams was a BLANK and focused on…

What are common elements of life narratives?

What did Walter Mischel propose?

What is self monitoring?

Who came up with the cognitive affective monitoring system? What debate did it end?

According to Mischel and Shoda, personality is consistent if…

What is Rank Order Stability? An analysis of 150 studies found that…

Aside from conscientiousness, how does personality change with age?

How does care giving impact personality?

How does travel change personality?

What did Joshua Jackson find?

Cultural challenges for personality analysis.

How did countries differ in big 5 ratings?

The 5 types of anxiety disorder

What disorders is social anxiety disorder comorbid with?

What fraction of people have a specific phobia?

1/8

What are the 2 factors causing anxiety disorders?

Biased thinking (interpreting ambiguous events as threats) and learning (watching others become scared).

What % of Americans will get MDD? What % have it?

What is persistent depressive disorder? How long must you have symptoms? What % has it? How long are these periods?

MDD are depressed BLANK but for BLANK periods. Dysthemia are depressed BLANK but for BLANK periods.

For identical twins how more common is depression compared to fraternal?

Who came up with the cognitive triad? What is it?

What type of bipolar may come with hallucinations?

Odds of bipolar for each type of twins

1 / how many people have schizophrenia?

1/200

How more often do people with schizophrenia have rare gene mutations?

How does schizophrenia reshape the brain?

What 5 factors contribute to schizophrenia?

How does family life contribute to schizophrenia?

What gender is more likely to get OCD? What % of people have it?

What is pure obsession?

The OCD cycle: What parts are classical / operant conditioning?

Trauma

Adjustment disorder

What gender is most likely do develop PTSD? How common is it?

What % have Borderline personality disorder?

1-2%

What % have antisocial personality disorder? What gender is it more common in?

1-4%