Duplicate of Psychology Session 9

Features that make up the visible features of personality

How friendly, nurturant and caring a person is as opposed to cold, self-centered or spiteful

System of concepts, assumptions, ideas and principles proposed to explain personality

Core qualities of a personality

A judge or censor for thoughts and actions

Degree to which a person experiences negative, upsetting emotions

Innate motives based on biological needs

How is the Minnesota multiphase personality inventory conducted?

Personal characteristics that have been judged or evaluated; desirable or undesirable qualities

The ability to perceive, use, understand and manage emotions

Process of fully developing personal potentials

Inconsistent or superficial aspects of a person e.g musical tastes

What is the Rorscharch inkblot test?

Carl Jungs term: mask or public self presented to others

Focus on external environment and on effects of conditioning and learning

An internal factor in hunger and obesity could be:

A state characterized by physiological arousal, changes in facial expression, gestures, posture

How is the Thematic apperception test conducted?

Underlying characteristics of a personality

Attempt to learn what traits make up personality and how they relate to actual behavior

Motives based on learned needs, drives and goals

Innate needs for stimulation and information

A person who is shy, reserved, self-centered person whose attention is focussed inward

A person who is bold, outgoing whose attention is directed outward

Your ideas, perceptions and feelings about who you are

Tendency to generalize a first impression to unrelated details of personality

Focus on the inner working of personality, especially internal conflicts and struggles

Overeating when people are emotionally upset

Characteristics shared by most members of a culture

A positive or negative evaluation of oneself

A person’s unique long-term pattern of thinking, emotion, and behavior

So basic that all of a persons activities can be traced back to the trait

The primitive part of personality that remains unconscious,supplies energy and demands pleasure

An external factor in hunger and obesity could be:

The executive part of personality that directs rational behavior

Stable qualities that a person shows in most situations

Freud’s term for the personality, contains id, ego and superego

How self-disciplined, responsible and achieving a person is

People who have several traits in common

When external circumstances influence the expression of personality traits

Focus on private, subjective experience and personal growth

Hereditary aspects of personality, including sensitivity, moods, irritability & distractibility