Module 46: Contemporary Research on Personality Flashcards

152754479	trait	a characteristic pattern of behaviour or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
152754480	personality inventory	a questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviours, used to assess selected personality traits
152754481	Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)	most widely researched and clinically used for all personality tests - developed to identify emotional disorders and is now used for many other screening purposes
152754482	empirically derived test	a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
152754483	social-cognitive perspective	views behaviour as influenced by the interactions between persons (and their thinking) and their social context
152754484	reciprocal determinism	interacting influences btwn personality and environmental factors
152754485	personal control	our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
152754486	external locus of control	the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate
152754487	internal locus of control	the perception that one controls one's own fate
152754488	learned helplessness	the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
152754489	spotlight effect	overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance and blunders (as we presume a spotlight shines on us)
152754490	self-esteem	one's feeling of high or low selfworth
152754491	self-serving bias	a readiness to perceive oneself favourably
152754492	positive psychology	the scientific study of optimal human functioning, aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive