exam 1 part 1 Flashcards
psychoanalytic perspective
we repress unacceptable desires and thoughts, unconscious motives
ID
Illogical, sponteous needs driven by needs or desires. Present with us since birth
Ego
Regulates the ID. Common sense and logic
Superego
The morals. If you want to steal, you ID might one you to, but the superego knows this is morally wrong. If you do, superego produces guilt.
What issues are there with the psychoanalytic approach?
empahsis on male, lack of scientific testability, lack of evidence
Psychodynamic Theory
a Freud-influenced
perspective that sees behavior, thinking, and
emotions as reflecting unconscious motives
How does this differ from Freuds theory
Disagrees that we are primarily motivated by sexual desires, disagreed that personality stemmed from childhood experience, not as pessimistic
Humanistic perpective
focused on the ways healthy people
strive for self-actualization and self-
transcendence
Self Concept
“Who am i?”
Self report inventories
Psychological tests in which a person’s responses to standard
questions are compared to established norms.
5 big factors
Five agreed upon dimensions that reveal a lot about our
personality
Relitevly stable throughout life
about 50% from genetics
Consistent across different situations
Applicable across cultures
What are the big 5 factors
open, conscientes, extravert, agreeable and neurotic
Trait theory and its criticisms
Personality can be broken down into a bunch of traits, but human personality is not really explained and the how and why we develop these traits is not explained
Social Congnititve perspective
emphasizes conscious thought processes, self-regulation,
and the importance of situational influences. Traits may do a good job describing average behavior, but situations also affect behavior. The more comfy you are, the more your traits come out.
Self concept
all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
