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GRE Psychology: Personality
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GRE Psychology: Personality
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1. Knowing you are worthwhile and in touch with strengths; 50% perceive selves accurately - 35% narcissistically

2. Somatotypes personality theory

3. Skinny - fragile means inhibited - intellectual

4. Organized categorization systems - by statistical techniques for personality

5. In the forefront -a combination of stable - internal factors and situations

6. Allport; his version of the ego - believed it acted relatively consistently based on traits developed through experience

7. Have a great need for arousal

8. Cognitive training against learned helplessness

9. Belief that one can effectively perform a task

10. Conscious ideas about the self - others and situations

11. Learned helplessness

12. Uses large numbers of people to study commonalities of personality

13. Self-defeating behaviour that allows one to dismiss or excuse failure

14. Superfactors - 5 dimensions that encompass all of personality; superordinate traits or facets; O-dimension (openness to experience - intellectual curiosity) - C-dimension (conscientiousness) - E-dimension (extroversion - enthusiasm) - A-dimension (ag

15. Suggested personality typology based on personal activity and social interest; ruling-dominant type (choleric; high-low) - getting-learning type (phlegmatic; low-high) - avoiding type (melancholic; low-low) - and socially useful type (sanguine; high-

16. Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed

17. The disposition to view the world as full of power relationships - measured by the F-scale (Fascism scale); - these individuals are either highly domineering (if top dog of situation) or submissive (as if they are in presence of a more powerfulfigure

18. People often make assumptions about the dispositions of an individual based on the actions of that person

19. Personality characteristic - causes one to view events as outcome of own actions; too much breeds self-blame

20. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

21. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Personality Inventory (CPI)

22. Found few sex differences existed that could not be explained by simple social learning; - most consistent difference that seems independent of social influence is that females have greater verbal ability and males have greater visual/spatial ability

23. Suggested females shun masculine-type successes not because of fear or failure or lack of interest - but they fear success and its negative repercussions (i.e. resentment and rejection)

24. Possessing both male and female qualities

25. Studied Type A personality