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PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY EXAM GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY EXAMGUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2 Views of Traits - Answer-1) Traits as internal properties that cause behavior
2) Traits as purely descriptive summaries with NO assumptions about causality
Act Frequency Approach - Answer-Traits are categories of acts
3 Ways to Identify most important traits - Answer-1) Lexical Approach--all important
traits have become encoded within the natural language
~synonym frequency
~cross-cultural universality
~"starting point"
2) Statistical Approach--identify major dimensions of personality map
*factor analysis--which items covary
3) Theoretical Approach--theory-driven
Eysenck 3 Main Heritable Traits - Answer-psychophysiological-->internal
1) Psychoticism (aggressive, disagreeable)
2) Extraversion-Introversion (extraversion=sociable, sensation-seeking)
3) Neuroticism (anxious, tense)
Eysenck developed a ____ model - Answer-hierarchal--starts with broad traits
Cattell: ___ Personality ___ System - Answer-16, Factor
descriptive
Essential Theorist
~Personality factors, named alphabetically like vitamins
~Oblique traits
Orthogonal - Answer-Traits are opposite
Five Factor Model - Answer-Costa & McCrae
OCEAN
Each of the Big 5 has a set of specific ____ - Answer-Facets
Subtlety, nuance
EX: Conscientiousness factors=competence, order, dutifulness, achievement striving,
self-discipline, deliberation
Fifth Factor Causes problems - Answer-Openness
Lack of evidence cross-culturally
Variety of definitions
, Trait Approach= ____ Approach - Answer-Quantitative--statistically oriented
Rank Order - Answer-If all people show a decrease on a particular trait over time, they
might still maintain the same rank relative to each other
Traits are consistent across ____ - Answer-situations
Mischel - Answer-situationism
Two necessary concepts of trait psychology - Answer-1) Person-situation interaction
2) Aggregation--averaging as a tool for assessing personality traits--most reliable
Strong situation - Answer-Situation in which nearly all people react in similar ways
Situational Selection - Answer-tendency to choose the situations in which one finds
oneself
Evocation - Answer-Certain traits may evoke specific responses from the environment
Barnum Statements - Answer-Generalities that could apply to anyone (horoscopes)
Personality Testing in Workplace - Answer-MMPI or CPI
personnel selection aids
Integrity testing
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - Answer-MBTI
Forced-choice format
Extraversion-Introversion
Sensing-Intuition
Thinking-Feeling
Judging-Perceiving
Based on JUNGIAN concepts
Problems with MBTI - Answer-1) People don't come in "types"--cutoff scores
2) Unreliability of typology scheme
3) Assumes large between-category differences and no within-category differences
Good to get people thinking, maybe not very valid/reliable
Hogan Personality Inventory - Answer-HPI
aspects of Big 5 relevant to acceptance, status and control, predictability
used in workplace settings
True-false items
Highly reliable
Big 5 Facets - Answer-extraversion: warmth, talkativeness, assertiveness, activity level,
excitement seeking, positive emotion
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