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Flashcards by Anneliese Shaw, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Anneliese Shaw
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| Question | Answer |
| Personality | a person's stable and enduring traits and characteristics, which lead them to behave in a steady way over time. |
| fundamental attribution error | the tendency to explain the causes of other people's behaviour as a product of their internal characteristics and dispositions rather than external situational factors. |
| Individual differences | Any characteristics that are susceptible to variation between individuals |
| Personality Theory | A set of propositions about the structure and/or development of personality that forms the basis of a coherent, evidence-based explenation |
| Extraversion | a personality type characterised by outogoing and gregarious behaviour. it forms an extraversion-introversion continuum with introversion, at the opposite pole, typified by reserved and inward-looking behaviour |
| Psychoanalysis | A set of theories and therapeutic methods exploring the unconscious processes influencing human behaviour |
| authoritarian personality | a kind of personality typified by obedience to authority strict adherence to rules, and hostitlity towards anyone different from themselves |
| anti-semitism | prejudice and hostility towards jews |
| fascism | a political ideology or regime marked by extreme nationalism and racism, centralisation of authority and the suppression of political opposition. |
| attitudes | a person's beliefs and feelings about issues, events, objects or people, which are thought to influence behaviour. |
| scale | a set of items such as questions on a questionnaire which combine to measure a bigger construct that cannot be measured directly |
| ethnocentrism | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture |
| F-scale | a measure of personality characteristics underpinning potential for fascism |
| interview | a 'conversation with a purpose', designed to gather in-depth information from research participants. |
| quantitative data | data that can be measured, counted, or expressed in numerical terms |
| qualitative data | data that is not in numerical form. There are different kinds of qualitative data such as interview material, newspapers, articles or diaries |
| acquiscence response bias | a tendency to agree with statements presented in scales, regardless of content |
| confirmatory bias | a tendency to pay most attention to those features of a phenomenon that appear to confirm prior expectations |
| double blind | a research design where neither the participants nor the investigator know which group the participants belong to, thus reducing the risk of bias in measures and interpretations. |
| cognitive style | the habitual way a person processes information. |
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