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| Use ofa limited set of adjectives or adjective dimensions to describe and scale individuals |
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| Myer-Briggs Type Indicator |
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| Widely used instrument that attempts to measure introversion and extroversion and several other subclassifications as defined by Carl Jung |
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| Sensation-Intuition Scale |
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| Subclassification of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator tha trelflects whether a person is more prone to realism or imagination |
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| subclassfication of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that reflects whether a person is logical and objective or personal and subjective |
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| Judgement-Perception Scale |
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| Subclassification fo the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that reflects whether a person is oriented toward evaluating ore perceiving things |
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| R.B. CATTELL: describes data gathered from self-reports and questionaries |
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| R.B. CATTELL: describes data gathered from placing a person in a controlled test situation and noting or rating responses |
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| R.B. CATTELL: describes data gathered about a persos life from school records or similar sources |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: generalized neuropsychic structure or core tendency that underlies behavior across time and situations |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: concept that many behaviors or individuals are similar in their meaning because the individuals tend to view many situation and stimuli in same way; for allport, trait is the internal structure that causes this regularity |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: describes organizing structres that people in a population share |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: describes organizing structres that people in a population share |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: describes the idea that in adulthood many motives/tendence sbecome independent of their origins in childhood and that finding out where such tendencies originated AINT IMPORTANT |
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| Proprium- "ones own or one's self" |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: the core of personality that defines who one is!; ALLPORT believed that the proprium has a biological counterpart |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: describing personal dispositions in terms of a person's unique goals, motives, or styles |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: describe a trait that's peculiar to an individual |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: describe eprsonal disposition that exert an overwhelming influence on behavior |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: describes the several personal dispositions (consistent tendencies) around which personality is organized |
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| GORDON ALLPORT: describes several personal dispositions (consistent tendencies) around which personality is organized. ex) qualities written by teacher in a letter of rec. for student |
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| trait approach to personality, personality can be captured by 5 dimensions: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness |
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| Personality dimension that includes enthusiasm, dominance, and sociability; people low on this dimension conidered introversion |
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| Personality dimension includes friendliness, cooperation, and warmth. people low in this dimension are cold, quarrelsome, and unkind |
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| Conscientiousness (Big 5) |
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| personality dimension includes dependability, cautiousness, organization, and responsibility. people low in this dimension are impulsive, careless, disorderly, and undependable. |
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| personality dimension includes nervousness, tension, and aniety. people low are emotionally stable, calm, and contented. |
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| includes imagination, wit, originality, and creativity; people low on this dimension are shallow, plain, and simple |
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| Implicit Personality Theory |
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| type of biasing tendency for people, perhaps erroneously, to see certain traits as going together and to perceive consistencies when viewing the personalities of others. seeing stereotypes instead of basic dimensions |
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| Within the Big 5 trait approach, the component characteristics (also sometimes called sub-factors) that underlie each of the Big 5 factors |
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| Extroversion (HANS EYSENCK) |
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| biologically based theory, term used to describe the characteristic of being generally sociable, active, and outgoing. extroverts thoguht to have relatively lower level of brain arousal and thus tend to seek stimualation |
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| one of 3 biologically oriented personality dimensions; it includes emotional instability and apprehensiveness |
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| Dimension includes a tendency toward psychopathology, involving impulsivity and cruelty, tough-mindedness, and shredness. low agreeableness adn low conscientiousness |
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| observation and judgment of someone with whom one has NEVER INTERACTED |
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| Theoretical appraoch to personality in which people are divided into discrete categories or classes as opposed to being placed along a continuum |
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| Internal psychobiological forces that induce behavior or push for expression |
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| HENRY MURRAY: describe a readiness to respond in a certain way under given conditions |
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| Need for Achievement (n Ach) |
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| HENRY MURRAY: need to succeed on tasks that are set out by society |
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| Need for Affiliation (n Aff) |
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| HENRY MURRAY: need to draw near to and win the affection of others |
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| HENRY MURRAY: need to seek positions and offices in which one can exert control over others |
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| Need for Exhibition (n Exh) |
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| HENRY MURRAY: need to show one's self before others and to entertain, amuse, shock, and excite others |
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