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Chapter 13: Personality Flashcards

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Personality

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A person’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that are broad and long-lasting

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Psychoanalytic Theory

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based on hidden needs in the unconscious that motivate us

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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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from Vienna, Austria, became the 1st psychiatrist, believes core of personality appears age 5-6 years

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Anna O

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Hypnotic, Talking Cure, Hysterical Pregnancy

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Unconscious

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reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories (unaware of)

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Personality Structure

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conflict between impulse and restraint create the inner self divisions of how we struggle to control

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ID

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basic needs and drives, contains libido, without Id we could not survive

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SuperEgo

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“conscience” that mediated the demands of the mind

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Ego

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Idealistic self, allows Id controlled expression with boundaries of SuperEgo, shows itself by seeking instant satisfacation and gratification

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Oral Stage

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Birth to 2, centers on sensual pleasure of mouth; sucking, biting, chewing, major task is weaning

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Anal Stage

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2 to 3. task is toilet training, problems if too lenient/harsh

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Phallic Stage

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3 to 6, child develops romantic interest in opposite-sex parent and hostility toward same-sex parent

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Latency Stage

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6 to preteen, earlier conflicts remain subdud

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Genital Stage

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Puberty on, mature sexual feelings toward another person cause reappearance of earlier conflicts

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Defense Mechanisms

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behaviors to protect ego against anxiety

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Neo-Freudian/ Psycho-dynamic Theorists

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accept Freud’s basic personality ideas and the unconscious but were different in:

  • More emphasis on conscious minds
  • doubted that only sex and aggression were all-consuming motivations
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Alfred Adler

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Social interaction is key

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Alfred Adler

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Social interaction is key

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Inferiority Complex

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Insecure people struggle to look better, spend life trying to dominate, and control others

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Carl Jung

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Freud follower turned dissenter, doubts animal instinct - focuses on innate capabilities

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Collective Unconscious

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Universal experiences shared by human race

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Archetypes

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Universal cultural themes

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Persona

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A mask to hide true self

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Anima

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Feminine aspect of persona

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Animus

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Masculine aspect of persona

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Erik Erikson

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Opportunity to change throughout life

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Trust v Mistrust

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Infant dependence on caregiver

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Autonomy v Shame

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Physical independence

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Initiative v Guilt

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Explore, intellectual separateness

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Industry v Inferiority

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Molded, skills, lack rewards

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Identity v Identity Confusion

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Self-identity in group

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Intimacy v Isolation

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Permanent relationships

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Generatively v Stagnation

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Gives something important

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Ego Integrity v Ego Despair

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Dignity at completion of life or lack control

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Projective Tests

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Personality test to measure inner feelings elicited by a vague stimulus like an ink blot or picture

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Thematic Apperception Test

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Shown vague pictures and asked to interpret them by adding stories

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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Hermann Rorschach, a Swiss psychologist creates in ink blot cards

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Situational Assessments

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Look at how circumstances surrounding an event influence people’s responses

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Norms

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Patterns of test answers from different types of people

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The Humanistic Perspective

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Focus of the ways healthy people strive for self-determination and self-realization

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Abraham Maslow

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Each inherit something unique and if the enviroment cooperates we have opportunity for greatness

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Carl Rogers

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People are basically good, problems living up to ideal self

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Frank Fromm

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Distinctively human or existential needs

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5 points of Fromm’s theory

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  • Relatedness
  • Transcendence
  • Rootedness
  • Sense of Identity
  • Frame of Orientation
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Behaviorism

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Unconscious is ignored, focus on behaviors and that out personalities evolve from rewards and punishments

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John B. Watson

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If we could control environment from infancy, mold person into anything

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B.F. skinner

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Everything is a result of a mechanical association of events with consequences

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Albert Bandura

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Some things are learned by straight association, but what about our ability to think, analyze, and inferiority?

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Trait Theories

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Personality traits make up out personality, influence, how we perceive the world and respond to it

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Gordon Allport

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  • Cardinal Traits
  • Central Traits
  • Secondary Traits
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Raymond Cattell

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  • Surface Traits

- Source Traits

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Hans Eysenck

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  • Extroversion

- Emotional Stability

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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Five personality traits appear early or are inherited, found across cultures and seem to be enduring over lifetime

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MMPI measure these 5 points

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  • Conscientiousness
  • Agreeableness
  • Neuroticism
  • Openness
  • Extraversion
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These Three Characteristics remain the same regardless of age:

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  • Friendliness
  • Eagerness
  • Comfort/Anxiety levels

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