Personality Flashcards

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What is personality?

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It is the sum total of an individual’s characteristics which make a human unique.

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Trait Perspective?

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  • Personality is made up of a range of different secondary traits inherited from parental genes.
  • Behaviour = Function of Personality (B=F(P))
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Personality Types?

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  • By Eysenck and Cattel
  • Extrovert, Inrovert, Neurotic and Stable
  • Personality profiling
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Narrow Band Theory?

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Type A - competitive, work fast, likes control, prone to suffer stress.
Type B - Works more slowly, lack desire to succeed, doesn’t enjoy control, less prone to stress.

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Social Learning Perspective?

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  • Behaviour is learned, through environmental experiences.
  • Behaviour of others imitated through observation.
  • Social reinforcement
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Interactionist Approach

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  • Mixture of Social and Trait

- Psychological Core, Typical responses, Role - related behaviour

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