Ch 10 Flashcards
Theory suggests that the development of personality is essentially the accumulation skills, and abilities, and discriminations, without anything really new appearing in a persons make up
Continuity theory
The concept of personality that admits little or nothing new from outside the organism to influence or change it in any significant way
Closed system
Theory suggests that in the course of development an organism experience with genuine transformations or changes and consequently reaches successfully higher levels of organization
Discontinuity theory
Continues to mention is that an individual can be seen to possess to a certain degree. In Allport’s theory, determining tendency to respond that represents the ultimate reality of a psychological organization. In Cattells theory, in imaginary construct of interference from overt behavior helps to explain it
Trait
A hypothetical construct that permits us to compare individuals within a given culture
Common trait
A general determining characteristic, is unique to the individual who has it
Personal disposition
Highly characteristic tendencies of an individual
Central disposition
Focus tendencies that are often situational and character and less crucial to the personality structure
Secondary disposition
The central experiences of self-awareness that people have as they grow and move forward
Proprium
Functions of the proprium that develop gradually as an individual grows from infancy to adulthood and constitute an evolving sense of self as known and felt
Propriate functions
The idea that adult motivation is not necessarily tied to the past
Functional autonomy
Knowing one’s body and its limits
Bodily self
Awareness of inner sameness and continuity
Self identity
Pride in the ability to do things
Self-esteem
Since of possession and valuing of others
Self extension
Since of measuring up to expectations of others
Self image
Since of self as active problem-solving agent
Self as rational coper
Development of long-term purpose and goals
propriate striving
Acts or behaviors that are repeated even though they may have lost their original function; they are not controlled by the proprium and have no genuine connection with it
Preservative functional autonomy
Acquired interests, values, attitudes, intentions, and lifestyles that are directed from the proprium
propriate functional autonomy
Studying large groups of individuals to determine the frequency with which certain events occur in from this to and for common traits, general variables, or universal principles
Nomothetic
Centers on the individual, employing techniques and variables that are appropriate to understanding the uniqueness of each person and then covering personal dispositions
Idiographic
Study of individual persons
Personology
A force in the brain that organizes perception, understanding, and behavior in such a way as to change an unsatisfying situation and increase satisfaction
Need
A projective and we test consisting of ambiguous pictures to which the subject is asked to respond
Thematic apperception test (TAT)