Chapter 12 Personality

Question 1

Trait approach

Answer 1

uses trait terms to categorize differences among individuals

Question 2

McCrea and Costa

Answer 2

Developed the “big five factor model”

Said human personality can be measured on 5 traits

Question 3

what are the traits on the Big five factor model

Answer 3

OCEAN
O:Openess
C:consientiousness
E:extraversion
A:Agreeableness
N: Neuroticism

Question 4

Openness

Answer 4

Imaginative, variety, independent

Low: Closeminded

Question 5

Consientiousness

Answer 5

Organized, careful, self-disciplined

Low: Tend to be irresponsible

Question 6

Extraversion

Answer 6

Social, fun loving, affectionate

Low: Introversion

Question 7

Agreeableness

Answer 7

Soft hearted, trusting, helpful

Low: tend to be more suspicious, not really trusting

Question 8

Nueroticism

Answer 8

Worried, insecure, self pitying

Low: rational, calm, even tempered

Question 9

Id

Answer 9

Wanting something and wanting it now

Question 10

Ego

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Super ego

Answer 11

Based on societal standards and parenting
Based on the Morality principle
The opposite of id

Question 12

Defense mechanisms

Answer 12

Unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses

Question 13

Denial

Answer 13

A way to decrease anxiety

Question 14

Rationalization

Answer 14

Makes excuses

Question 15

Reaction formation

Answer 15

Saying the opposite in how you feel internally

Question 16

Projection

Answer 16

put your internal experiences onto someone else

Question 17

Psychosexual stages of development

Answer 17

Distinct early life stages through which personality is formed as children experience sexual pleasures from specific body areas

Question 18

Oral

Answer 18

When babies explore things through their mouth

Question 19

Anal

Answer 19

Children gain satisfaction through their anus

Question 20

Phallic

Answer 20

Sense gratification through their genitals

Question 21

Latency

Answer 21

when our sexual needs are repressed and we instead go to same sex friendships

Question 22

Genital

Answer 22

Focus goes back to the gentials

Question 23

Social cognitive approach

Answer 23

Views personality in terms of how the person thinks about the situations encountered in daily life and behaves in response to that

Question 24

Julian rotter

Answer 24

developed social learning theory