Introduction

Question 1

Personality psych

Answer 1

• focuses on individual differences
• to understand personality and how it’s developed

Question 2

Why study it?

Answer 2

• personal growth
• mental health (to see signs of disorders)
• career development (find career that aligns with you)
• social and cultural insight

Question 3

What is personality

Answer 3

Enduring pattern of thoughts and feelings
Stable across situations, consistent
Thinking, e.g.: positive or negative
Feeling, e.g.: anxious, happy
Behaving, eg.: social, distant

DOES NOT include feelings like hunger or arousal

Question 4

Origins

Answer 4

Debate wether it’s nature or nurture
It is influenced by genes but also experience

Question 5

Five-factor model

Answer 5

OCEAN
(Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism)

Question 6

Behaviorist theory

Answer 6

Shaping personality through learning and observable behavior
-> reward and punishment

Question 7

Social cognitive theory

Answer 7

Focus on people’s beliefs, expectations and interactions with environment
Banduras concept of self-efficacy

Question 8

Humanistic theory

Answer 8

Self-actualization and positive aspect of human nature
Maslow hierarchy of needs suggests personality is made due to humans wanting to achieve bigger things

Question 9

Assessment of personality

Answer 9

Used in psychotherapy services aswell as neuropsychology, medical psych, industrial organizational psychology and forensic psych

Question 10

Self report measures(questionnaires)

Answer 10

• people are expected to know a lot about themselves
• people don’t always say the truth
  -might now know their true self

Question 11

Projective test

Answer 11

Ambiguous stimulus and participant has to reply, to uncover underlying desires
Rorschach
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