Finals Flashcards
Study of the individual
Morphogenic Science
are a process that involves gathering data on a single individual
Morphogenic Methods
the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment
Personality
personality is both ____ and ____; includes both ____ and ____; it is not only is something, but it ____
physical and psychological
overt behaviors and covert thoughts
does something
healthy adults are generally aware of what they are doing and their reasons for doing it
Conscious Motivation
capable of consciously acting on their environment in new and innovative ways and causing their environment to react to them
Proactive Behavior
Structure of Personality
Personal Dispositions
Common Traits
generalized neuropsychic structure with the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent, and to initiate and guide consistent forms of adaptive and stylistic behavior
Personal Dispositions
general characteristics
Common Traits
ruling passion that dominates their lives
Cardinal Dispositions
includes 5 to 10 most outstanding characteristics around which a person’s life focuses
Central Dispositions
less conspicuous but far greater in number than central dispositions
Secondary Dispositions
intensely experienced dispositions.
initiate action.
Motivational Dispositions
personal dispositions that are less intensely experienced.
guides action.
how?
Stylistic Dispositions
peculiarly mine characteristics
behaviors and characteristics that people regard as warm, central, and important in their lives.
warm center of personality
Proprium
the explanation for behavior, and one need not look beyond it for hidden or primary causes
Functional Autonomy
the tendency of an impression to leave an influence on subsequent experience
Perseverative Functional Autonomy
the master system of motivation that confers unity on personality which also refers to those self-sustaining motives that are related to the proprium
Propriate Functional Autonomy
stage development
Bodily Self
Self-Identity
Self-Esteem
Extension of Self
Self-Image
Self as rational coper
Propriate Striving
Adulthood
infants become aware of their own existence and distinguish their own bodies from objects in the environment
Bodily Self
their identity remains intact despite the many changes that are taking place
Self-Identity
children learn to take pride in their accomplishments
Self-Esteem
children come to recognize the objects and people that are part of their own world
Extension of Self
children develop actual and idealized images of themselves and their behavior
Self-Image
children begin to apply reason and logic to the solution of everyday problems
Self as rational coper
young people begin to formulate long-range goals and plans
Propriate striving
normal, mature adults are functionally autonomous, independent of childhood motives
Adulthood
source of affection and security
Infant-Mother bond
seeks general laws
Nomothetic Research
peculiar to the single case
Idiographic Research
patterned properties of the whole organism and allows for intrapersonal comparisons
Morphogenic Science
mathematical procedures capable of sifting personality traits from mountains of test data
Factor Analytic Techniques
Eysenck’s factor analytic technique yielded 3 general bipolar factors or types
Extraversion/Introversion
Neuroticism/Stability
Psychoticism/Superego
the Five-Factor Theory often called as
The Big-Five
the Big Five includes
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Raymond Cattell used an Inductive Method
Exploratory Factor Analysis
three sources of data
L data
Q data
T data
person’s life record derived from observations made by other people
L data
self-reports obtained from questionnaires and other techniques designed to allow people to make subjective descriptions of themselves
Q data
objective tests which measure performances such as intelligence, speed of responding, and other such activities designed to challenge people’s maximum performance
T data
Cattell divided traits into two:
Common Traits
Unique Traits
shared by many
Common Traits
peculiar to one individual
Unique Traits
Cattell further classified traits into:
Temperament
Motivation
Ability
how a person behaves
temperament
why one behaves
Motivation
how far or how fast one can perform
Ability
the largest and most frequently studied of the normal traits are the
16 Personality Factors Questionnaire (16 PF Scale)
Dimensions of Personality
Extraversion
Neuroticism
Psychoticism
two strongest and most ubiquitous personality traits
Neuroticism
Extraversion
tend to be anxious, temperamental, self-pitying, self-conscious, emotional, and vulnerable to stress-related disorders
People who score high on neuroticism
they are calm, even-tempered, self-satisfied, and unemotional
People who score low on neuroticism
tend to be affectionate, jovial, talkative, joiners, and fun-loving
People who score high on extraversion
likely to be reserved, quiet, loners, passive, and lacking the ability to express strong emotion
low extraversion scores
they are creative, imaginative, curious, and liberal, and have a preference for variety
People who score high on openness
they are typically conventional, down-to-earth, conservative, and lacking in curiosity
People who score low on openness
they are trusting, generous, yielding, acceptant, and good-natured
People who score high on agreeableness
generally suspicious, stingy, unfriendly, irritable, and critical of other people
People who score low on agreeableness
they are hardworking, conscientiousness, punctual. and persevering
People who score high on conscientiousness
tend to be disorganized, negligent, lazy, and aimless and are likely to give up when a project becomes difficult
People who score low on conscientiousness
“we are just a product of a reinforcement of the environment”
Radical Behaviorism
Skinner did not claim that observable behavior is limited to ______. Private behaviors such as thinking, remembering, and anticipating are all observable by the person experiencing them.
External Events
behavior can be best studied without reference to needs, instincts, or motives.
Scientific Behaviorism
permits a scientist to generalize from a simple learning condition to a more complex one.
Interpretation
two kinds of conditioning
Classical
Operant
Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
John Watson
a response is drawn out of the organism by a specific, identifiable stimulus.
Classical Conditioning
a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus a number of times until it produces conditioned response.
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
B.F. Skinner
a behavior is made more likely to recur when it is immediately reinforced.
Operant Conditioning
reinforcing approximation of the targeted behavior until such time that the organism finally do what we intend them to do.
Shaping
the experimenter or the environment first rewards gross approximations of the behavior, then closer approximations, and finally the desired behavior itself.
Shaping
a response to a similar environment in the absence of previous reinforcements. they react to a new situation in the same manner that they reacted to an earlier one because the two situations possess same identical elements.
Stimulus Generalization
Skinner said “The reinforcement of a response increases the probability of all responses containing the same elements”
Stimulus Generalization
environmental stimuli that are not by nature satisfying but become so because they are associated with such unlearned or primary reinforcers (food, water, sex, or physical comfort)
Conditioned Reinforcers
associated with more than one primary reinforcer
Generalized Reinforcer
schedules of reinforcement
Continuous Schedule
Intermittent Schedules
the organism is reinforced for every response
Continuous Schedule
they produce responses that are more resistant to extinction.
Intermittent Schedule
four basic intermittent schedules
Fixed-Ratio
Variable-Ratio
Fixed-Interval
Variable-Interval
the organism is reinforced intermittently according to the number of responses it makes.
Fixed-Ratio
the organism is reinforced after every nth response
Variable-Ratio
the organism is reinforced for the first response following a designated period of time.
Fixed-Interval