Chapter 12- Personality

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Personality traits you can inherit

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Anxiety proneness, alienation, shyness, addictive personality, impulse control, leadership, vulnerability to stress, aggression

Question 1

Personality

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Distinctive, enduring, consistent, predictable ways that a person thinks behaves and feels.

Question 2

___ shapes behavior not_____

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Environment shapes behavior not personality

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Psychodynamic

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Function of ego, superego, and id. Ongoing interplay between the three. Always tension
Dynamic interest between the conscious and unconscious mind.

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Id

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Unconscious,wild, crazy, wants/needs. Sexual and aggressive. Irrational 
Unconscious energy( completely underwater part of the ice burg)

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Ego

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Mostly conscious, half unconscious, ego mediate between id and superego. Delays gratification
Gratify ids impulses in realistic ways that will bring long term pleasurej

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Superego

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Conscience, morals, standards, right and wrong, instill morals and values. Strict
How we ought to behave
Internalized ideas

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Repression

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Keep sexual/aggressive impulses in unconscious realm. Ex: sexually assaulted.
Can come out in dreams or slips of the tongue

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Denial

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Refuse to accept reality. Act as if painful event never happened
Ex- denies evidence of lovers affair

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Displacement

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Place your thoughts and feelings into safer target. Redirect
Ex- punch wall, yell at friend

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Intellectualization

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Avoid unacceptable impulse/ emotions by focusing on intellectual aspects
Ex- repeat stats if you fail test

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Projection

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Accuse someone else of feeling the way you do

Ex- angry at boss. Say boss is angry at you

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Rationalization

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Supply false/ rational reason for your behavior

Ex- unfair test that’s why I failed

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Reaction formation

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Convert unacceptable impulses into their opposites
Ex- dislike someone
Overly friendly

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Sublimation

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Act out unacceptable impulses in socially acceptable way

Ex- sports

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Regression

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Revert to immature behavior when you had less responsibilities
Ex- bed wetting, nail biting

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Behavior perspective

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Learn our personalities because we were punished/rewarded

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Social learning perspective

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Thinking piece
Introverted person spends more time alone
Think and perceive the world and environment different. Behavior in a situation best predicts by considering past behaviors in similar situations

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External and internal locus of control

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No control over life or environment. Learned helplessness
Ex- passenger
Interal- driver

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Humanistic perspective

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Rogers, Maslow
Core of personality is most important to determine behavior
Self develops with positive self regard. Unconditional love regard
Accept others and themselves. Deep appreciation. Healthy personal growth

Question 20

Trait theory

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Try to reduce the 17,000 words for personality to 3-5

CertIn stable and enduring characteristics influenced by genetic predispositions

Question 21

Five factor personality test
(OCEAN)
Fits someone on the spectrum

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Openness- open minded, imaginative/ narrow, conforming
Conscientiousness- responsible, disciplined/ unreliable and impulsive
Extraversion- extroverted sociable/ reserved and reclusive
Agreeableness- gentle easygoing/ argumentative and stubborn
Neuroticism- emotionally stable and calm/ anxious all over emotion

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Psychoanalysis

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Freuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Expose unconscious tensions

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Unconscious

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Freud
Reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts wishes feelings and memories.
Other psychologists- information processing of which we are unaware

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Psychosexual stages

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Childhood stages of development according to Freud the ids pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.

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Freud’s psychosexual stages

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Oral 0-18 months, pleasure centers on the mouth, sucking biting chewing
Anal 18-36 months- pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination, coping with demands of control
Phallic 3-6 years- pleasure zone is the genitals. Coping with incestuous sexual feelings
Latency 6 to puberty- phase of dominant sexual feelings
Genital puberty on- maturation of sexual interests

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Identification

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Process according to Freud children incorporate their parents values into their developing superegos.

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Fixate

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At any point in the oral anal or phallic stages a strong conflict could fixate
Ex- fixate in oral stage could exhibit passive dependence (infant) or exaggerated denial of dependence ( acting tough)

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Phallic and Electra complex

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Examples- boys seek genital stimulation and develop both unconscious sexual desires for their mother and jealousy and hatred for their father whom they consider a rival.
Experience guy
Electra complex- what girls experience

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Defense mechanisms

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Psychoanalytic theory the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality

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Carl jungs theory

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Unconscious contains more than our repressed thoughts

We have a collective unconscious a common reservoir of images derived from our species universal experienced

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Self actualization

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Process of fulfilling our potential

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Carl Rogers and growth promoting climate

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Require
Genuineness- open with their own feelings
Acceptance- still accepted even if we confess our worse feelings
Empathy-share and mirror others feelings and reflect their meanings

Question 33

Factor analysis

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Identify clusters of test items that tap basic components of a trait
Unstable and stable
Introverted and extroverted

Question 34

Narcissism

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Excessive self love and self absorption

More cheating, gambling inflated expectations