Ch 13: Personality

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

a pattern of behavior and thoughts

Question 2

Psychoanalytical

(Freud)

Answer 2

personality is a struggle between the ID, Ego, and SuperEgo

• ID - present at birth
  
  • always wants you to feel good
  • 100% pleasure
• SuperEgo - develops as you gro
  
  • taught by parents and teachers - high moral standards
  • always wants you to do the “right thing”
• Ego - develops first year of life
  
  • balance ID and SuperEgo

Question 3

Humanistic

(Carl Rogers, Maslow)

Answer 3

just ask the person nicely to find out their personality

Question 4

Trait

(Gordon Allport)

Answer 4

found all personalities and archived them

test people to fit them into a personality

Question 5

Social Cognitive

(Albert Bandura)

Answer 5

learn personality by watching others

Question 6

Defense Mechanisms - 7

1. Repression
2. Regression
3. Reaction Formation
4. Projection
5. Rationalization
6. Displacement
7. Sublimation

Answer 6

1. Repression - pushes down the thought so you don’t think about it
   
   1. Freudian Slips - fail in repression
      
      1. after a long time
2. Regression - your retreat into an infantile way
   
   1. acting like a little kid to get your way
3. Reaction Formation - switch to the opposite feelings
   
   1. Sarcasm
4. Projection - you didguise your own feelings by putting them on someone else
5. Rationalization - offers a self justifying explination
   
   1. excuses
6. Displacement - redirecting anger to a different place
7. Sublimation - do something good with anger or other emotion

Question 7

Freud’s Sexual Stages - 5

1. oral
2. anal
3. phallic
4. latency
5. genital

Answer 7

1. oral - (0-1.5) - pleasure from sucking
   
   1. pacifier, thumbs
2. anal - (1.5-3) - pleasure from creating, holding, and letting go of poop
3. phallic - (3-6) - get pleasure from exploring your body
   
   1. oedipus complex - boy hates dad, loves mom
   2. electra complex - girl hates mom, loves dad
4. latency - (6-puberty) - quiet period
5. genital - (puberty) - pleasure from others

Question 8

Fixation

Answer 8

too much or not enough of a stage

Question 9

Projective test

Answer 9

ambiguous tests that tries to get into the unconscious

not scientific

Rorschach Test - ink blots - what do you see?

Question 10

MMPI

Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory

Answer 10

inventories - 100’s of questions

10 different scalse

2x - one before and after treatment

emperically derived

Question 11

Androgny

Answer 11

posess both masculine and feminine traits

Question 12

Unconditional Positive Regaurd

Answer 12

total acceptane of others

Question 13

*Reciprocal Determinism

Answer 13

our personality is shaped by interacting witht the environment

environment doesn’t just control you, but you think about your environment and act on it

Question 14

Control

Internal vs External

Answer 14

• Internal - control yourself
  
  • better health, less depression
  • self efficancy - “I can do it”
• External - others control you
  
  • bad
  • *Learned Helplessness - “Anything I do won’t matter”