Duplicate of Duplicate of Psychology Session 9

Degree to which a person experiences negative, upsetting emotions

How is the Minnesota multiphase personality inventory conducted?

People who have several traits in common

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

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

How self-disciplined, responsible and achieving a person is

Motives based on learned needs, drives and goals

Stable qualities that a person shows in most situations

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

Focus on private, subjective experience and personal growth

Innate needs for stimulation and information

How is the Thematic apperception test conducted?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Innate motives based on biological needs

Underlying characteristics of a personality

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

A judge or censor for thoughts and actions

Process of fully developing personal potentials

The ability to perceive, use, understand and manage emotions

Tendency to generalize a first impression to unrelated details of personality

An external factor in hunger and obesity could be:

Core qualities of a personality

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

A positive or negative evaluation of oneself

What is the Rorscharch inkblot test?

The executive part of personality that directs rational behavior

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

Carl Jungs term: mask or public self presented to others

When external circumstances influence the expression of personality traits

An internal factor in hunger and obesity could be:

Your ideas, perceptions and feelings about who you are

Features that make up the visible features of personality

Overeating when people are emotionally upset

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

Focus on external environment and on effects of conditioning and learning

Characteristics shared by most members of a culture