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L9: PERSONALITY Flashcards

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1
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What does “persona” translate to

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-mask
- its latin

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What does the personality triad consists of?

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-feelings
-behaviour
- thoughts

  • 3 things that make up your personality
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Is personality dynamic?

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Yes

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Who’s theory is the psychoanalytic perspective?

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Freud’s

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What is Freud’s Psychoanalytic Perspective on personality?

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  • that our personality is largely unconscious, its hidden and unknown to us
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Who pushed for humane therapy?

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Freud

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What does the Topographic Model of the mind show?

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the levels of consciousness

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What are the levels of consciousness?

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  1. conscious mind
  2. pre conscious - outside awareness still accessible
  3. un conscious mind
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What 3 things moderate our personality?

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  1. ID
  2. EGO
  3. SUPEREGO
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What is the ID? (principle?)

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  • follows the pleasure principle
  • strives to satisfy basic sexual, aggressive and survival drives
  • demands immediate gratification
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What is the EGO? (principle?)

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

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

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ID- Biological
EGO- Psychological
SUPEREGO- Social

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What is the SUPEREGO? (principle?)

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  • guided by the morality principle
  • provided standards for judgement
  • drives feeling good or bad or guilty
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How can you remember ID, SUPEREGO, EGO?

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angle devil and the mediator
or
SUPEREGO ID AND THE EGO

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

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

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

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that your ID would focus on erogenous zones

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What are the 5 Psychosexual phases?

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  1. oral
  2. anal
  3. phallic
  4. latency
  5. genital
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What is the Oedipus Complex?

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

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What is the Electra Complex?

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

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How do children get over Electra and Oedipus complex?

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through identification

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What psychosexual stage does the Electra and Oedipus complex occur?

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phallic stage

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How do we go about coping with ego anxiety?

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Defence Mechanisms

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Example of Repression

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

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Example of Sublimation

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

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  • someone that smokes claims its not unhealthy, media just wants you to think that
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Example of Rationalization

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  • justifying cheating on your exam cause everyone does it
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Example of Intellectualization

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  • 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
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Example of Projection

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

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Example of Reaction Formation

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  • a politician that gives an anti-gay speech that turns out to be gay themselves
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Example of Regression

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  • an adult throwing a temper tantrum when they don’t get what they want
31
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Example of Displacement

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

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

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Freuds rooted in sexual tensions cAlders rooted in social tensions

33
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Whats Adlers theory on personality?

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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

34
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What disease did Alder have as a kid?

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rickets

35
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What did Karen Horney argue about children?

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

36
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What did Jung believe in?

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  • the collective unconscious
  • which contained a common reservoir of archetypes derived from our past
  • example: old man being wise
37
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What is the humanistic perspective regarding personality ?

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

38
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Who preaches the humanistic perspective?

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Maslow and rogers

39
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What did Maslow claim individuals are motivated by?

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-the hierarchy of needs
- pyramid

40
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What 3 things did rogers believe we needed in order to “grow “ as individuals?

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  1. Genuineness
  2. Acceptance
  3. Empathy
41
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Rogers has a ________ centered perspective.

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Person

42
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What is the trait perspective?

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

43
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What are the 3 functions of traits?

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  1. summarize - how people differ from one another
  2. predict - their future behaviour
  3. explain
44
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What does the lexical hypothesis?

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

45
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What does the PEN model stand for?

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Psychoticism
Extraversion
Neuroticism

46
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What is Extraversion linked to? BIO

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reticular formation

47
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What is neuroticism linked to? BIO

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limbic system

48
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What is Psychoticism linked to?

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endocrine system, more specifically testostorone

49
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What theory did Costa and McCrae come up with?

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THE BIG FIVE

50
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Whats the Big Fives OCEAN acronym stand for?

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Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticisim

51
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What does the big five mean in regard to personality?

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

52
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How stable are the traits in the big 5?

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quite stable in adulthood
change over time

53
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How heritable are the big 5 traits?

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40% for each trait

54
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Do these traits predict other behavioural attributes- Big 5?

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yes

55
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What does the ABC model say about behaviour?

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a= antecedents - sitmuli
b= behaviour
c= consequences

56
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What perspective did Bandura talk about?

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Social cognative perspective

57
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What did bandura believe about personality?

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

58
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3 beliefs of Bandura of individuals and there environment:

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  • different people chose different environments
  • our personalities shape how we react to events
  • our personalities shape situations
59
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What did Julian Rotter introduce?

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the idea of personal control

60
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difference between external and internal locus of control

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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

61
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TOO much external locus could lead to…

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lack of motivation
lol me with criminology

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