Chapter 9 - Personality Flashcards
Trait/state distinction
Personality/social psychology
internal/external
Stable/unstable
typical/situational
Phrenology
Skull measurements and personality strengths
Somatotypes
Body types
Ectomorph
Very thin, severe, rigid, easily angered
Mesomorph
Muscular, happy, healthy
Endomorph
Obese, jolly, happy
Psychoanalytic model of personality
Freud; vast majority of personality is unconscious, like an iceberg; ID, Ego, Superego
ID
Pleasure principle; seek pleasure avoid pain; newborn baby
Ego
Reality principle; partly conscious; ego is shaped by reality and consequences
Defense mechanisms
Defend ego from id
Projection
“I know you hate me” instead of “I hate you”
Regression
Women with marital problems goes back to mom and home
Reaction formation
Doing opposite of what your told to feel in control
Sublimation
Converting primitve impulses into acceptable behavior
Superego
Morality principle; guided by morality
Oral
0-2; effects of breastfeeding