In psychoanalysis, the part of the personality that represents reason, good sense, and rational self-control.
What is the Ego
100
According to Allport, each of us has five to ten of these fairly fixed traits that make up our personalities.
What are central traits?
100
Characteristic styles of responding to the environment that are present in infancy and are assumed to be innate.
What are temperaments?
100
A program of shared rules that govern the behavior of members of a community or society and a set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community.
What is Culture?
200
Methods used by the ego to prevent unconscious anxiety or threatening thoughts from entering consciousness.
What are Defense Mechanisms
200
To Carl Jung, the universal memories and experiences of humankind, represented in the unconscious images and symbols of all people.
What is collective unconcious?
200
A statistical estimate of the proportion of the total variance in some trait within a group that is attributable to genetic differences among individuals within the group.
What is heritability?
200
Unique aspects of the situation that are not shared with family members.
What is Non-shared environment?
300
Tests that typically include scales on which people are asked to rate themselves.
What are objective tests?
300
This statistical method clusters traits or behaviors into personality types.
What is factor analysis?
300
The functional units of heredity, which are composed of DNA.
What is genes?
300
Cultures in which the self is regarded as autonomous and individual goals and wishes are prized above duty and relations with others.
What is Individualist Culture?
400
These are changeable aspects of personality, such as habits and music preferences.
What are secondary traits?
400
One of the Big Five factors that describes the extent to which people are outgoing
What is Extroversion vs. introversion?
400
This view holds that personality traits result from a person’s learning history and his or her expectations, beliefs, perceptions of events, and other cognitions.
What is Social-cognitive learning theory?
400
To Carl Rogers, love or support given to another person with no conditions
What is unconditional positive regard?
500
One of the Big Five factors that describes the extent to which people are good natured or irritable, cooperative or abrasive, secure or suspicious and jealous.
What is Agreeableness to antagonism?
500
The two way interaction between aspects of the environment and aspects of the individual in the shaping of personality traits.
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
500
A psychological approach that emphasizes personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential.