4.6a-4.6c Vocabulary Quiz

1. A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act in certain ways, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.

A questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.

The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes.

1. A test (such as the MMPI) created by selecting from a pool of items that discriminate between groups.

Five traits — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — that describe personality. (Also called the five-factor model

A view of behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits (including their thinking) and their social context.

Behavioral approach- focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development

Reciprocal determinism- the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.

In modern psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.