Conduction Research
Factor Models of Personality
Jargon Terms
Building Blocks of Personality
Alcohol & Aggresion
100
There are four types of data that could be collected about personality. This is the acronym for these four types and what each of the four letters stand for.
What is LOTS of data – life, observation, test, self-report?
100
This is a personality trait that describes how much people energetically seek out interactions with others and experience positive emotions.
What is extraversion?
100
This is an approach to the study of traits in which researcher identify the traits that are important for the understanding of a single individual.
What is ideographic?
100
This one of the seven building blocks of personality includes twin studies
What is genetics?
100
The average age of participants in this study was 36 and 75% of the sample was African American. It’s a good question as to whether these results would generalize to college students. This question addresses this type of validity.
What is external validity?
200
These two things can be determined by looking at the results of a multi-trait multi-method matrix.
What is convergent and discriminant validity?
200
This is a personality trait that describes an individual’s degree of physical and mental organization and regulation or impulses like thinking before acting, delaying gratification, or following norms and rules.
What is conscientiousness?
200
This is one of the three types of needs according to self-determination theory. Attachment style is one way of thinking about this need.
What is relatedness?
200
This one of the seven building blocks of personality includes the sympathetic versus parasympathetic systems which are part of autonomic nervous system.
What is neuroscience?
200
Self-awareness was manipulated using mirrors and cameras. As a result of this manipulation, the researchers are more confident that self-awareness caused a drop in aggressiveness. This confidence comes from this type of validity.
What is internal validity?
300
This is an estimate of how strongly each question fits into a given factor in a factor analysis
What is factor loading?
300
This is a personality trait which describes the quality of personal relationships; how much a person fees for and gets along with others.
What is agreeableness?
300
This is a defense mechanism in which the ego attributes its own disturbing and unacceptable impulses onto another person
What is projection?
300
This one of the seven building blocks of personality includes attachment theory
What is intrapsychic?
300
This changes the most salient cues from aggression-promoting cues to aggression-inhibiting internal states such as empathy.
What is self-awareness?
400
This is a statistical technique in which researchers use statistics to test hypotheses about how variables relate to one another.
What is path analysis?
400
This one of the five factors is not consistent across cultures when adjectival measures are used?
What is openness?
400
This is the term for images of what we hope, fear, or expect that we may become in the future.
What is possible selves?
400
This one of the seven building blocks of personality includes locus of control and dispositional optimism
What is cognitive?
400
This sentence describes the relationship between local of control and aggression for people in the control condition.
What is no relationship?
500
When looking at personality over time, correlations are used to examine this and means are used to examine this.
What is personality consistency (correlations); change (means)?
500
The five factors have moderate environmentality. This describes the source of environmentality.
What is nonshared environment?
500
This is a state of having no motivation, being neither intrinsically nor extrinsically motivated. It is often accompanied by feelings of apathy or alienation.
What is amotivation?
500
This one of the seven building blocks of personality includes the twenty-questions test
What is self and identity (an ideographic measure)?
500
One possible criticism is that the researchers have made too much out of finding that was not statistically significant. This criticism addresses this type of validity.
What is statistical validity?
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