Movement in psychology that focuses on the study of optimal human functioning and the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive.
What is positive psychology?
100
Canadian-American psychologist who developed the social-cognitive perspective and believed that to understand personality one must consider the situation and the person's thoughts before, during, and after an event.
Who Albert Bandura?
100
Extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to test.
What is validity?
100
Perception that chance, or forces beyond your control, determines you fate.
What is external locus of control?
200
American psychologist and trait theorist who researched the idea that individual personalities are unique.
Who is Gordan Allport?
200
English psychologist who researched whether some traits predicted others; he proposed 16 key personality dimensions or factors to describe personality.
Who is Raymond Cattell?
200
Extent to which a test yields consistent results, regardless or who gives the test or when or where it is given.
What is reliability?
200
Perception that you control your own fate.
What is internal locus of control?
300
American psychologist who researched helplessness before turning his interests to optimism; he has been the primary proponent of positive psychology.
Who is Martin Seligman?
300
German psychologist who researched the genetically influenced dimensions of personality, including extraversion and introversion.
Who is Hans Eysenck?
300
Hopeless feeling when an animal or human can't avoid repeated bad events.
What is learned helplessness?
300
Which of the Big Five personality traits would most affect whether a person is likely to feel comfortable telling a joke n front of a group of strangers at a party?
What is Extraversion?
400
Individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
What is personality?
400
Perspective stating that understanding personality involves considering how people are affected by a particular situation, by what they have learned, by how they think, and by how they interact socially.
What is Social cognitive perspective?
400
Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests; originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
400
A criticism of trait perspective theory.
What is it does not explain why we behave in the ways that we do?
500
Aspects of personality that are relatively consistent.
What are traits?
500
Questionnaires on which people respond to items designed to gauge a range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.
What are personality inventories?
500
Mutual influences between personality and environmental factors.
What is reciprocal determinism?
500
The main difference between trait theory and social-cognitive theory.
What is social-cognitive theory focuses on interaction among personality traits, thinking, and the environment?