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Lecture 13: Theories of Personality Flashcards

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Personality

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Refers to an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

explains the stability of a persons behavior over time and across situations

explains the behavioral differences among people in similar situations

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Personality Trait

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a characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations

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MMPI:

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

used for a wide variety of purposed including career counseling; comes with a lie detector test

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McCrae and Costa maintain most personality is derived from 5 higher-order traits:

true or false: they are relatively stable throughout adulthood and universally applicable

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Extroversion
Neuroticism
Openness
Agreeableness
Consciousness

TRUE

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Frued’s Psychoanalytic Approach

Initial beliefs and final beleifs

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Attempts to explain personality motivation and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior

Initially though that hypnosis might unlock the door to unconcious but ultimately turned to free association

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Levels of Awareness

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Concious

Preconcious

Unconcious

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Personality Structure: ID

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instinctive component of personality

operates according to pleasure principle, impulse, doesn’t care how illogical it might be

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Personality Structure: EGO

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Tries to satisfy wants of ID and superego

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Personality Structure: Superego

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Moral compass

produces feelings of pride and guilt

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Whatever one is aware of at a particular point in time

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Conscious

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Material just beneath the surface of awareness

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Preconscious

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Thoughts, memories, desires that are well below the surface of awareness

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Unconscious

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______________ Place more emphasis on conscious mind and doubt sex and aggression are all consuming motivators

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neo-freudians

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Who are the three mentioned neo-freudians and what were their view points

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Karen Horney:Childhood anxiety is triggered by the Childs sense of helplessness and dependence (and triggers our desire to be loved and secure)

Alfred Adler: much of our behavior is driven by efforts to conquer childhood feelings of inferiority (placed more emphasis on interpersonal and social influences)

Carl Jung: In addition to the personal unconscious, we have a collective unconscious that explain deeply rooted concerns that stem from ancestral memories

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_______________ provide ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger the projection of ones inner dynamic

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Projective tests

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_______ _________ believe that psychology should only study observable behavior and explain personality in terms of learning

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Behavioral Perspectives

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BF SKinner

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Did not believe in free will
“whatever you do happens for a reason because of external factors”

Personality is aquired through learning over the course of the lifetime

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Albert Bandura

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Models have a large impact on our personality development

Self-Efficacy: our beliefs about our abilities preform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes

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______ ____________ focus on the way healthy people strive for self determination and self-realization

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Humanistic Psychologists

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Proposed that we are motivated by a hierarchy of needs

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Abraham Maslow

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unless thwarted by environment people are primed for growth and development

founder of humanistic apraoch

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Carl rogers

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posited that personality can be characterized along three dimensions
Extroversion- introversion
emotional stability- instability
psychoticism

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Hans Eysenck

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Introverts have _____ levels of physiological arousal

___________ is higher in extroverts

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higher

dopamine

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personality is molded by ______

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heredity

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Perception that outside forces determine your fate

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External locus of control

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belief that you control your own destiny

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internal locus control

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