Psychology Chapter 16 Review

The style in which a person interacts with the world, particularly with other people

A method of interpreting personalit data that is variable-centered and focuses on how the unique parts of a person's personality form a consisten whole

A method of interpreing personality data that is variable-centered and focuses on finding consistent patterns of relationships amoung individual's traits

A person's relatively stable disposition to behave in a certain way

A person's transient disposition to behave in a certain way

States that a set of meaningful and distinct personality dimensions can be used to describe how people differ from one another

Is a statistical techniqe that is used to identify patterns of correlations in responses to questionnairs

Is a part of the brain that controls arousal

Is a part of the brain that activates approach behavior in response to the anticipation of a reward

Is a part of the brain that inhibits approach behavior in response to the anticipation of a reward

A model tht is used to describe personality by assessing a person's score on each of five dimentions: extraversion/introversion, aggreeableness/antagonism, conscientiousness/undirectedness, emotional stability/instability, and openness to experience/non-openness

A long, sceintifically regorous questionnaire that asks questions about many different behaviors and assesses several traits at once

The most widely used personality inventory, initially developed to identify emotional disorders but now used for a variety of other purposes

The observation that personality ratings are consisten across time and among different observers, but that behavior ratings are not

Describes the degree to which a trait s able to be passed on genetically