Chapter 12 Personality Flashcards
Trait approach
uses trait terms to categorize differences among individuals
McCrea and Costa
Developed the “big five factor model”
Said human personality can be measured on 5 traits
what are the traits on the Big five factor model
OCEAN O:Openess C:consientiousness E:extraversion A:Agreeableness N: Neuroticism
Openness
Imaginative, variety, independent
Low: Closeminded
Consientiousness
Organized, careful, self-disciplined
Low: Tend to be irresponsible
Extraversion
Social, fun loving, affectionate
Low: Introversion
Agreeableness
Soft hearted, trusting, helpful
Low: tend to be more suspicious, not really trusting
Nueroticism
Worried, insecure, self pitying
Low: rational, calm, even tempered
Id
Wanting something and wanting it now
Ego
We have to take into account reality
Takes the demands of the Id and the Super ego and put it into a socially acceptable way
Super ego
Based on societal standards and parenting
Based on the Morality principle
The opposite of id
Defense mechanisms
Unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses
Denial
A way to decrease anxiety
Rationalization
Makes excuses
Reaction formation
Saying the opposite in how you feel internally
Projection
put your internal experiences onto someone else
Psychosexual stages of development
Distinct early life stages through which personality is formed as children experience sexual pleasures from specific body areas
Oral
When babies explore things through their mouth
Anal
Children gain satisfaction through their anus
Phallic
Sense gratification through their genitals
Latency
when our sexual needs are repressed and we instead go to same sex friendships
Genital
Focus goes back to the gentials
Social cognitive approach
Views personality in terms of how the person thinks about the situations encountered in daily life and behaves in response to that
Julian rotter
developed social learning theory
