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Theories of Personality - Dispositional, Biological, Environmental, Behavioral

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John Watson   Father of radical behaviorism  
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overt   directly observable [events]  
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covert   private, internal events  
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L - Data   life records  
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Q - Data   Questionaires  
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T - Data   Test Data  
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Cattell's "Source" Traits   Building blocks of personality; 16  
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Cardinal Trait (Allport)   ruling passion  
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Central Trait (Allport)   less pervasive than cardinal traits  
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Secondary/Narrow traits (Allport)   least pervasive, may be only displayed to close individuals  
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Factor Analysis (Cattell)   Statistical method with subjective naming  
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Eysenck's Trait Theory   hierarchy model; Types (composed of traits), Traits (composed of habitual responses)  
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Eysenck's Traits   PEN; Psychoticism, Extraversion/intraversion, Neurotic/stable  
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McCrae & Costa's Traits   OCEAN - Openess/closed, Conscientousness, Extraversion/intraversion, Agreeableness/antagonism, Neuroticism  
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Kretschmer studied:   relationship b/w physique & abnormal psychology  
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Sheldon studied:   relationship b/w physique & normal psychology  
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(Sheldon)Endomorphic/plump:   Viscoretonia; complacent, relaxed, loves physical pleasure  
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(Sheldon)Mesomorphic/muscular:   Somatotonia; risk taker, energetic, assertive  
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(Sheldon) Ectomorphic/frail   Cerebrotonia; self-conscious, apprehensive  
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Darwin's theory   Inidvidual variation, reproductive advantage  
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Evolutionary noise   variations that neither help nor hurt  
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Stabilizing Selection   the effect of having variability in a group  
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Gould   Evolutionary theory of sudden changes (as opposed to Darwin's gradual changes)  
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E. O. WIlson's theory   Social behaviors are performed because they increased reproductive success i.e. altruism  
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Inclusive fitness   Genes passed when ppl genetically related to us reproduce  
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Assortative Mating   Choose partners, as opposed to Darwin's random mating  
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Young Male Syndrome   Young males more competitive & aggressive at age when mate-competition is most fierce  
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Baker & Bellis   Sperm theory: Egg-seeker, Killer sperm & Blocker Sperm  
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SEA Temperament   Sociability, Emotionality, Activity Level  
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Gray   BIS / BAS system  
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BIS   Behavioral Inhibition System; attentive to cues of danger, negative consequences & controls negative emotions.  
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BAS   Behavioral Activiating System; seeks rewards, unconcerned w neg. consequences & controlls positive emotions.  
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low Serotonin correlated with:   High aggression  
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Diet low in Tryptophan   High aggression  
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B.F. Skinner was a:   Radical behaviorists  
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SRC / ABC   Stimulus-Response-Consequence ; Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence  
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Operant Conditioning   Skinnerian; Instrumental  
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Classical Conditioning   Pavlonian, associations US-UR, then CS-CR  
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Methodological Behavioral Approach   Controlled experimentation, Parsimonious, Nomothetic, present-focused  
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Parsimonious   few assumptions, stingy  
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Nomothetic   looking at population statements  
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Idiographic   looking at individual person instead of population  
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US   Unconditioned Stimuli  
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UR   Unconditioned Response  
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CS   Conditioned stimulus  
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CR   Conditioned Response  
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CS then US   forward conditioning  
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CS+US (simultaneously)   simultaneous conditioning  
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Rescorla & Wagner   Cue / Information Conditioning - reliable cue/signal causes condititoning  
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Stimulus generalization   Conditioning to stimuli will transfer to response to similar stimuli  
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Stimulus discrimination   Response to stimuli is exclusive  
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Neurotransmitters   Chemical messengers  
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FFM   Five-Factor Model by McCrae & Costa, uses NEO inventories as pricipal source of data  
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Tellegen & Waller   Positive & Negative Valence  
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DSM   APA's manual of mental disorders  
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Contingency   relationship b/w behavior & consequences  
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Ratio schedule   # of responses (fixed or varied)  
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Interval scedule   time period lapses (fixed or variable)  
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Shaping   reinforce approximations to the behavior desired  
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Garcia effect   biologically prepared for certain stimuli-associations  
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