L9: PERSONALITY

Question 1

What does “persona” translate to

Answer 1

-mask
- its latin

Question 2

What does the personality triad consists of?

Answer 2

-feelings
-behaviour
- thoughts

• 3 things that make up your personality

Question 3

Is personality dynamic?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Who’s theory is the psychoanalytic perspective?

Answer 4

Freud’s

Question 5

What is Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspective on personality?

Answer 5

• that our personality is largely unconscious, its hidden and unknown to us

Question 6

Who pushed for humane therapy?

Answer 6

Freud

Question 7

What does the Topographic Model of the mind show?

Answer 7

the levels of consciousness

Question 8

What are the levels of consciousness?

Answer 8

1. conscious mind
2. pre conscious - outside awareness still accessible
3. un conscious mind

Question 9

What 3 things moderate our personality?

Answer 9

1. ID
2. EGO
3. SUPEREGO

Question 10

What is the ID? (principle?)

Answer 10

• follows the pleasure principle
• strives to satisfy basic sexual, aggressive and survival drives
• demands immediate gratification

Question 11

What is the EGO? (principle?)

Answer 11

-follows the reality principle
-functions as the executive and mediates the demands of the ID and the Superego

Question 12

Categorize ID, EGO and SUPER EGO : into biological, social and psychological

Answer 12

ID- Biological
EGO- Psychological
SUPEREGO- Social

Question 13

What is the SUPEREGO? (principle?)

Answer 13

• guided by the morality principle
• provided standards for judgement
• drives feeling good or bad or guilty

Question 14

How can you remember ID, SUPEREGO, EGO?

Answer 14

angle devil and the mediator
or
SUPEREGO ID AND THE EGO

Question 15

According to freud when does our personality form? and how did he divide them?

Answer 15

within the first few years of life
he divided them into psychosexual stages

Question 16

What did Freud believe happened to your ID in the psychosexual stages?

Answer 16

that your ID would focus on erogenous zones

Question 17

What are the 5 Psychosexual phases?

Answer 17

1. oral
2. anal
3. phallic
4. latency
5. genital

Question 18

What is the Oedipus Complex?

Answer 18

a boy’s sexual desire for his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father

Question 19

What is the Electra Complex?

Answer 19

A girl’s desire for her father and rivalry with her mother

Question 20

How do children get over Electra and Oedipus complex?

Answer 20

through identification

Question 21

What psychosexual stage does the Electra and Oedipus complex occur?

Answer 21

phallic stage

Question 22

How do we go about coping with ego anxiety?

Answer 22

Defence Mechanisms

Question 23

Example of Repression

Answer 23

-Forgetting the details of your parent’s painful death
- sexual assault survivors

Question 24

Example of Sublimation

Answer 24

• rechanneling your sexual desires into school work or hobbies something that is more reconstructive

Question 25

Examples of Denial

Answer 25

- someone that smokes claims its not unhealthy, media just wants you to think that

Question 26

Example of Rationalization

Answer 26

- justifying cheating on your exam cause everyone does it

Question 27

Example of Intellectualization

Answer 27

- eliminate emotional aspects and just look at the facts - example: someone with a life-threatening disease, doesn't think about how they could die but rather does crazy research on there condition

Question 28

Example of Projection

Answer 28

A person who is stealing objects from the supermarket fears that their wallet is going to be stolen.

Question 29

Example of Reaction Formation

Answer 29

- a politician that gives an anti-gay speech that turns out to be gay themselves

Question 30

Example of Regression

Answer 30

- an adult throwing a temper tantrum when they don't get what they want

Question 31

Example of Displacement

Answer 31

yelling at your co-workers right after your boss yelled at you

Question 32

What is the difference between Freud's and Adler's beliefs?

Answer 32

Freuds rooted in sexual tensions cAlders rooted in social tensions

Question 33

Whats Adlers theory on personality?

Answer 33

a child struggles with an inferiority complex during growth and strives for superiority and power your born with flaws and have to work to overcome them

Question 34

What disease did Alder have as a kid?

Answer 34

rickets

Question 35

What did Karen Horney argue about children?

Answer 35

-that they were born with basic anxiety that they could not care for themselves and needed others'

Question 36

What did Jung believe in?

Answer 36

- the collective unconscious - which contained a common reservoir of archetypes derived from our past - example: old man being wise

Question 37

What is the humanistic perspective regarding personality ?

Answer 37

they discuss healthy people rather than focusing on people with mental health problems

Question 38

Who preaches the humanistic perspective?

Answer 38

Maslow and rogers

Question 39

What did Maslow claim individuals are motivated by?

Answer 39

-the hierarchy of needs - pyramid

Question 40

What 3 things did rogers believe we needed in order to "grow " as individuals?

Answer 40

1. Genuineness 2. Acceptance 3. Empathy

Question 41

Rogers has a ________ centered perspective.

Answer 41

Person

Question 42

What is the trait perspective?

Answer 42

is based on the assumption that the best way to test the accuracy of physiological behaviour is to try and predict behaviour

Question 43

What are the 3 functions of traits?

Answer 43

1. summarize - how people differ from one another 2. predict - their future behaviour 3. explain

Question 44

What does the lexical hypothesis?

Answer 44

states that essentially if something is important in language there will be multiple terms to describe it

Question 45

What does the PEN model stand for?

Answer 45

Psychoticism Extraversion Neuroticism

Question 46

What is Extraversion linked to? BIO

Answer 46

reticular formation

Question 47

What is neuroticism linked to? BIO

Answer 47

limbic system

Question 48

What is Psychoticism linked to?

Answer 48

endocrine system, more specifically testostorone

Question 49

What theory did Costa and McCrae come up with?

Answer 49

THE BIG FIVE

Question 50

Whats the Big Fives OCEAN acronym stand for?

Answer 50

Openness to experience Conscientiousness Extroversion Agreeableness Neuroticisim

Question 51

What does the big five mean in regard to personality?

Answer 51

The Big Five personality traits that determine whether or not you have a personality disorder

Question 52

How stable are the traits in the big 5?

Answer 52

quite stable in adulthood change over time

Question 53

How heritable are the big 5 traits?

Answer 53

40% for each trait

Question 54

Do these traits predict other behavioural attributes- Big 5?

Answer 54

yes

Question 55

What does the ABC model say about behaviour?

Answer 55

a= antecedents - sitmuli b= behaviour c= consequences

Question 56

What perspective did Bandura talk about?

Answer 56

Social cognative perspective

Question 57

What did bandura believe about personality?

Answer 57

He believes that personality is a result of an interaction that takes place between a person and there social context

Question 58

3 beliefs of Bandura of individuals and there environment:

Answer 58

- different people chose different environments - our personalities shape how we react to events - our personalities shape situations

Question 59

What did Julian Rotter introduce?

Answer 59

the idea of personal control

Question 60

difference between external and internal locus of control

Answer 60

Internal: refers to the perception that we can control our own fate External: refers to the perception that chance or outside forced beyond our personal control determine our fate

Question 61

TOO much external locus could lead to...

Answer 61

lack of motivation lol me with criminology