Psych exam 2b

Personal characteristics that have been judged or evaluated: friendly, outgoing, jaded, or cynical

• Character

• Personality

Unique and relatively stable patterns in thinking, emotion, and behavior. . .

• Character

• Personality

Your ideas, perceptions, & feelings about who you are. . .

-Mental picture who have about your own personality

-can impact behavior & mental adjustment

• Character

• Self-concept

• Mental adjustment

• Personality

Based on accurate self-appraisal of strengths and weaknesses

-regarding oneself as a worthwhile person

-based on successes-> social status, belonging, & security

• Self esteem

• Personality

• Character

• Self-concept

Conversation is informal & topics are discussed as they arise -> dates, off script interview for job. . .

• Unstructured interview

• Structured interview

• Projective tests

Follows prearranged plan, using a series of planned questions. . .

• Unstructured interview

• Structured interview

• Projective tests

Tests like Rorschach inkblot test and Thematic Apperception test (TAT). . .

• Unstructured interview

• Structured interview

• Projective tests

Stable dispositions that a person shows in most situations (reflective & predictive)

• Social behaviors
• Cognitive biases
• Traits

• Emotional states

Identified several different types of traits (common, individual, cardinal, central, and secondary) . . .Who was this?

• Gordon Allport
• Abraham Maslow
• Sigmund Freud
• Carl Jung

Characteristics shared by many members of a culture. . .

• Common traits

• Individual traits

• Cardinal traits

• Secondary traits