Chapter 11 - Personality Flashcards
Who proposed the birth order theory?
Alfred Adler
Older siblings become
over-achievers
Younger siblings may be
spoiled
Middle siblings seem
more or less unaffected
0-1 years (Erikson’s Stage Theory)
Trust vs. mistrust
1-3 years (Erikson’s Stage Theory)
Autonomy vs. shame
3-6 years (Erikson’s Stage Theory)
Initiative vs. guilt
6-12 years (Erikson’s Stage Theory)
Industry vs. inferiority
12-19 years (Erikson’s Stage Theory)
Identity vs. confusion
20-25 years (Erikson’s Stage Theory)
Intimacy vs. isolation
26-64 years (Erikson’s Stage Theory)
Generativity vs. stagnation
65-death (Erikson’s Stage Theory)
Integrity vs. despair
Heritability
the proportion of difference amongst people that is attributed to genetics
OCEAN
openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticsm
Freud’s “drives” (sex, death)
libido, thanatos
Id, Ego, Superego
Id - unconscious, driven by pleasure
Ego - mostly conscious, based on reason
Superego - mostly unconscious, related to conscience
Displacement
transferring inappropriate urges onto a more acceptable target
Reaction formation
reducing anxiety by adopting beliefs contrary to your own
Regression
returning to less mature stages of development
Sublimation
redirection unacceptable desires through socially acceptable channels
Freud’s stages of psychosexual development
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
Jung’s theory
analytical psychology
Locus of control
our view of the power we have over our own lives
Hippocrates’ 4 fluids (humors) of the body
choleric, melancholic, sanguine, phlegmatic
choleric temperament (one of Hippocrates’ 4 humors of the body)
yellow bile from the liver
melancholic temperament (one of Hippocrates’ 4 humors of the body)
black bile from the liver
sanguine temperament (one of Hippocrates’ 4 humors of the body)
blood from the heart
phlegmatic temperament (one of Hippocrates’ 4 humors of the body)
white phlegm from the lungs
Franz Gall proposed what?
Phrenology
Freud compared the mind to an
iceberg
