The Self & Personality
Is changing a tire a subject under Personal Development or Personality Development?
Personality Development
What does the E in the Big Five Theory stand for?
Extraversion
What do you call the process of adolescents trying different things to find out what they like and don't like?
Experimentation
Emotional intelligence relies on the interaction between the amygdala and what other part of the brain?
prefrontal cortex/neocortex
If I.Q. stands for Intelligence Quotient, what does E.Q. stand for?
Emotional Quotient
What are the two key characteristics of a personality?
Give all the Big Five Theory personalities. (5)
Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness to Experience
What was the name of the conflict/crisis that adolescents face in the 8 stages of psychosocial development?
Identity vs. Role Confusion
The amygdala is part of what system in the brain?
Limbic system
According to Daniel Goleman, what starts out as an impulse to act in a situation?
What is the type of spectrum found under personality development that focuses on how you present yourself visually or act on the outside?
Image enhancement
The Big Five Personality Test is answered using what to measure their results?
Numbers :)
Who was the psychologist (surname) who theorized the certain conflicts of a person's life into stages?
Erikson (Erikson's Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development)
What is the most basic survival instinct found among all living things?
An only child about to have a sibling in a family has what type and source of stress?
Long-term and external stress
Who said that "building character is what education is all about"?
Plato (Western Philosophy)
The Big Five Theory is also known as what?
The OCEAN Theory
Social change
State the process of the logical impulse of emotions. (5)
thalamus > neocortex > amygdala > frontal lobes > body
What does the thalamus do?
Perceives the information from the external world (5 senses)
The aspect of Nature and Nurture for personality can also be called as what other aspects of human development?
Heredity (Nature) and Environment (Nurture)
I like to believe that rules are made to be broken, schedules are guidelines, and checklists are a waste of paper. Am I a high or low scorer, and in which personality category?
Low scorer in Conscientiousness
What is the main reason why adolescents have trouble considering the risks of a decision?
The pre-frontal cortex/neocortex is still in development in adolescence.
What do you call the phenomenon that elicits an emotional response from you rather than a logical one?
the "hijacking of the amygdala"
What helps in an overwhelming situation, keeps one motivated, expects the good in all outcomes, and is a great indicator of emotional stability?
Hope