Ch 12 Personality Flashcards
psychodynamic theories
- personality focus on unconscious and importance of childhood experiences
- psychoanalysis: freud theory that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
- free association: psychoanalysis method of exploring the unconsciousness by saying whatever comes to mind
six defense mechanisms
- regression
- reaction formation
- projection
- rationalization
- displacement
- denial
freud psychosexual stages
-personality forms in childhood
- oral
- anal
- phallic
- latent
- genital
- oedipus complex/electra complex: unconscious sexual drives for parent
- identification: incorporating parents values into developing superegos
- fixation: pleasure seeking energy is unresolved
humanistic theories
-emphasizes ways healthy people strive for self-determination and self-realization
maslows self actualizing person
-humanistic theiry that puts needs in hierachical order with self actualization and self transcendence at the top
rogers person centered perspective
-people nurture our growht by being genuine, accepting, and empathic (offering unconditional positive regard)
trait theories
-personality is a stable enduring pattern of behavior
two personality factors
- extra- intro- version
- emotional stability and instability
the big five personality factors
- conscientiousness
- agreeableness
- neuroticism
- openness
- extraversion
social cognitive theories
- views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people and their social context
- biopyschosocial approach to personality
self image
internal view of our personality
self-serving bias
-readiness to perceive ourselves favorably
personality
characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
freud personality structure
- conflict between impulse and restraint
- id: selfish impulse
- ego: reality
- superego: conscience and morality
