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Trait

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Aspect of personality that is considered to be stable

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Personality

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Patterns of feelings, motive and behavior that set people apart from one another

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What did Hippocrates think

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Fluids (humors) in body; combine to form personality traits

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Hippocrates says too much yellow bile means?

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Choleric personality; quick tempered disposition

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Hippocrates says too much blood means?

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Sanguine personality; warm and cheerful disposition

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Hippocrates says too much phlegm means?

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Phlegmatic personality; sluggish and cool personality

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Hippocrates say too much black bile means?

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Melancholic personality; thoughtful temperament

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What can happen by the lack of balance of yellow bile, blood, phlegm and black bile

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Diseases and disorders

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What did Gordon Allport think

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a) traits can be inherited
b) traits are fixed in the nervous system
c) traits are building blocks of personality

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What did Hans J. Eysenck think

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a) two personality dimensions
1) introversion-extroversion
2) emotional stability-emotional instability

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Hans tie to Hippocrates

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Choleric: extroverted-unstable
Sanguine: extroverted-stable
Phlegmatic: introverted-stable
Melancholic: introverted-unstable

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General information on psychoanalysis

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1) All people undergo inner struggles
2) People are born with biological drives
3) Unconscious=deepest thoughts, fears and urges that remain out of awareness
- psychoanalysis
- dream analysis
- hypnosis

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Psychoanalysis

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People are encouraged to talk about anything that comes to mind

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Dream analysis

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Record dreams and look for hidden meanings

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Hypnosis

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Trancelike state where people state unconscious thoughts

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Defense mechanisms

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Methods the ego uses to avoid recognizing ideas or emotions that may cause anxiety

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Repression

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Pushing anxiety causing ideas into unconscious

*people may tend to develop psychological and emotional problems if too much is repressed

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Rationalization

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Use of self-deception to justify unacceptable behaviors/ideas

 * can protect self-esteem or self-concept
 * masks real reason for behavior; prevents      dealing with situation
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Regression

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Returning to behavior that is characteristic of an earlier stage of development
*usually temporary

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Projection

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People see their own faults in other people (projecting unacceptable impulses outward onto other people) or hypocrites
*may think the world is a dangerous place

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Id

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Represents basic drives

- first structure of mind 
- demands pleasure through instant gratification 
- pleasure principle
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Pleasure principle

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Urge for immediate release of energy or emotion; will bring personal gratification, relief or pleasure

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Ego

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Stands for reason and good sense

- reality principle
- seeks to satisfy Id in ways consistent with reality 
- acts as censor that screens out the wild impulses
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Reality principle

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The understanding that we cannot always get what we want

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Superego

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Morally righteous

- moral principle 
- acts as conscience 
- sends messages of guilt and shame
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Moral principle

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Provides us with moral sense by incorporating standards and values of parents and community

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Oral stage

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First year of life

  • infants explore world by putting things in their mouths
  • infants receive main pleasure (food) with their mouths
  • infants survival dependent on attention of adults
    * if needs aren’t met, may become fixated at oral stage
    * examples:smoking, overeating, excessive talking, and nail biting
    * adults might have clinging interpersonal relationships
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Anal stage

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Ages 1 and a half to 2 and a half

  • learn they can control bodily functions
  • issue of self-control becomes vital
  • conflict can lead to two personality traits:
    • anal-retentive traits or anal-expulsive traits
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Anal retentive traits

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Excessive need for order and cleanliness

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Anal-expulsive traits

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Careless and messy

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The phallic stage

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Age 3

  • children discover the physical differences in boys and girls
  • become more focused on own bodies
  • develop strong attachments to parent of opposite sex
  • view same sex parent as a rival for other parent’s affection
  • can lead to several psychological disorders (depression and anxiety)
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The latency stage

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Ages 5 or 6

  • children retreat from conflict with parents and repress aggressive urges
  • impulses and emotions remain hidden (unconscious)
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The genital stage

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Puberty

  • no major conflicts
  • become aware of gender identity
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Stages of personality development

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital stages

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Analytical psychology

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Places greater emphasis on the influence of shared symbols and religion on human behavior

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Collective unconscious

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Store of human concepts shared by all people across all cultures

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Archetypes

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Ideas and images of the accumulated experience of all human beings

  • supreme being, young hero, fertile and nurturing mother, wise old man, hostile brother, fairy godmothers, wicked witches, rebirth and resurrection
  • often appear as figures in dreams
  • images influence our thoughts and feelings
  • help form a foundation that personality develops on
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What are the four main archetypes

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Self, shadow, anima/animus, and persona

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Self

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The center of the human psyche and personality; unifies consciousness and unconsciousness; total unity; God; often symbolized by a circular image called a mandala

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Shadow

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The darker side of human nature; embodies chaos and uncontrollable or unacceptable emotions; often represented by devil figures or mysterious enemies

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Anima

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Feminine qualities within a man’s personality

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Animus

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Masculine qualities within a women’s personality

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Persona

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The public self; the image or character that a person wants to show to the outside world

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Alfred Adler

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  • Inferiority complex
  • feelings of inferiority may be based on physical problems and need to compensate for them
  • may also be because of small size as children
    • gives rise to drive for superiority
    • sibling rivalry
  • self=awareness play major role in formation of personality
  • creative self=capable of free will and self-determination
    • strives to overcome physical and environmental obstacles
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What did Karen Horney

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  • childhood experiences play major role in adult personality
  • greatest influences: social relationships and parent-child relationship
  • basic anxiety=parents treat children with indifference or harshness
    • feelings of hostility resulted because they resented neglectful parents
    • children would repress feelings of hostility (fear driving their parents away)
  • difference from Freud: genuine and consistent love could temper effects of painful childhood
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What did Erik Erikson think

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  • social relationships are most important factors for personality
  • placed emphasis on emotional climate of mother-infant relationship
  • granted more powers to the ego than Freud
  • freud: people think they are making choices, but may be the compromises forced by inner conflict
  • erikson: people are capable of consciously making real and meaningful choices
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Socialization

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Process by which people learn socially desirable of their culture and adopt them as part of their personalities
-focus on learning by observation and role of cognitive processes that produce individual differences

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What did Albert bandura think

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Any behavior could be learned from direct experience and learned observing and modeling others

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Bobo doll

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  • inflatable toy on platform that bounces back when hit

- focus: do people learn aggressive behavior from modeling?

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Bobo doll study

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  • Children ages 3-6
  • half the children watched adult aggressively hit doll
  • the same children were more violent toward doll
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Bobo doll later study

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  • Children who saw adult punished for aggressive behavior were less likely to copy behavior
  • children learn what is acceptable by watching and modeling
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Social cognitive theory

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Personality is shaped and learning is acquired by interactions of…

    - personal factors: thoughts, beliefs, values, expectations, emotional disposition and biological and genetic and genetic makeup 
    - behavior: one's actions and experience 
    - environment factors: social, cultural and political forces  - persons environment provides models for behavior  - people can act intentionally to influence the environment  - learn about their environment to have control over reinforcement
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Humanistic personality psychologists

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  • self-awareness is core of humanity
  • focus on people’s pursuit of self-fulfillment and ethical conduct
  • people are free to choose and are responsible for the choices they make
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What did Abraham Maslow think

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  • humans recognize a desire to achieve self-actualization
  • people are unique and must follow own path
  • people who stick to tried and true=boring and predictable
  • hierarchy of needs=each need had to be filled before next one could be addressed
  • psychological needs, security needs, social needs, esteem needs, self-actualization needs
  • once first three are met, esteem and self-actualization become more important
  • hierarchy is sequential but people progress in different ways
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Psychological needs

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Water, air, food and sleep

-foundation(1)

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Security needs

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Safety and security (2)

-shelter, employment, health insurance, safe environments

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Social needs

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Love, belonging and acceptance

-(3) family, friends, romantic attachments

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Esteem needs

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Self-esteem, respect, social recognition and accomplishments(4)

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Self-actualization needs

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Self-awareness and personal growth (achieve full potential)

-(5)

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