Chapter 14 Quiz Flashcards
distinctive and stable pattern of behavior, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterize in individual.
personality
trait, biological, psychodynamic, humanistic, learning/social-cognitive
approaches to personality
founded by gordon allport; stressed habitual patterns of behavior, thought and emotions
trait approach
3-10 traits that best describe you
central traits
single characteristic that influences everything you do (very rare)
cardinal traits
found 16 dimensions of personality
raymond cattel
found 3 dimensions of personality
hans eysenck
extroversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism
eysenck’s 3 dimensions of traits
neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness
5 factor model of personality traits
tendency to experience negative effect (anger, sadness, worry)
neuroticism
tendency for an individual to be sociable (assertive or outgoing)
extraversion
tendency to be open to a variety of experience (curious or independent)
openness
tendency to be self-disciplined (hard-working or well organized)
conscientiousness
tendency to be cooperative (trustworthy or helpful)
agreeableness
emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces that underlie human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience – powerfully affected by unconscious motives
psychodynamic approach
conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
model of consciousness
thoughts that are unconscious but can easily be recalled
preconscious
the deepest level on consciousness, a pool of unwanted or unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, memories, and emotions
unconscious
oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital
stages of psychosexual development
1 yr old putting things in mouth to learn
oral
2 yr old learning to potty train
anal
3-5 yrs old when kids discover genitals and play with themselves for pleasure and starts to love the opposite sex parent and becomes possessive
phallic
boys want mother sexually and become scared that dad will castrate because he knows that his son wants his wife- child’s forced to identify and become like dad to get someone like mom
oedipal
girl wants dad - they realize that they don’t have a penis and develop penis envy because it makes them better
electra