Chapter 4 -Human Development Flashcards
Personality
An individual’s unique and relatively stable patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours
Character
Value judgements of a person’s moral and ethical behavior
Temperament
The enduring characteristics with which each person is born
Another definition of temperament
An inborn quality noticeable soon after birth
Founder of psychoanalytic
Sigmund Freud
According to Freud, personality is largely determined by
Unconscious mind
3 structures forming personality
Id, ego and superego
Id
Follows Pleasure principle, present at birth, innate, irrational (acts according to what feels good doing), totally unconscious
Ego
Follows Reality principle, mostly conscious, rational and logical, satisfies id’s desire safely and effectively, develop from between birth and 2 weeks old
Superego
Follows Morality principle, totally learned, compares ego’s actions with ego ideal, then reward or punish ego accordingly, demands perfection, moral center
Neo-freudians Members (4)
Carl Jung, Alfred Atler, Karen Horney, Erik Erikson
Carl Jung
Developed a theory of collective unconscious
Archetypes- unlearned tendencies to learn new things in a certain way (instincts)
Anima-men have a contra sexuality which is feminine in natural
Animus-women have a contra sexuality which is masculine in natural
Alfred Atler
Developed a birth order theory
Proposed feelings of inferiority as driving force behind personality
Karen Horney
- Developed a theory based on basic anxiety
- Rejected the concept of penis envy
Erik Erikson
- Developed a theory based on social rather than sexuality relationships, covering the entire lifespan