Module 5: Personality Flashcards

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Personality

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Distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person’s response to situations.

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Uniqueness of the Individual

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Personality explains how the expression of each individual’s thoughts and behaviour is different

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Consistency of Behaviour

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Personality describes how the behaviour of the individual is consistent over time and across situations.

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Process of Personality

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Personality accounts for the internal operations producing the unique and consistent expression of an individual’s thoughts and behaviour.

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Psychodynamic Perspective on Personality

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  • Accept the things we cannot change.
  • We aren’t aware of what factors produce our personality.
  • We can’t change or control our personality
  • Sigmund Freud pioneered this perspective.
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3 Regions of the Mind

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Conscious Mind
-Connects w/ conscious awareness. We are aware of our thoughts and feelings at the moment.

Preconscious Mind
-Connects w/ conscious and unconscious minds. Contains information accessible to the conscious mind when needed.

Unconscious Mind
-Connects w/ the preconscious mind. Contains painful and threatening memories and impulses too threatening for conscious awareness.

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Freudian Slip

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True desires can be examined by slips of the tongue.

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3 Structural Components of the Mind

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Id

  • Core of personality; Pleasure Principle; Eros and Thanatos; Found in the unconscious mind.
  • Dominant id results in narcissism; person might become a psychopath.

Ego

  • Develops out of id and subdues its impulses; go-between id and reality; Reality principle.
  • Finds a balance between id and superego. A strong ego is healthy!

Superego

  • Sense of right and wrong based on morality; Regulated by ego ideal and conscience; Exists at all levels of conscious awareness.
  • In constant conflict with id.
  • Dominant superego results in overly-denied (socially acceptable) gratification.
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Reality Anxiety

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Informs the ego of real danger (e.g., a car is drifting into your lane).

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Moral Anxiety

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Notifies the superego that the ego is considering violating a moral code (e.g., you want to cheat on a test).

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Neurotic Anxiety

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Warns the ego of the threatening expression of id impulses at the level of conscious awareness (e.g., you want to scream out loud while sitting in a boring meeting).

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Repression

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Forcing distressing or unacceptable memories, thoughts, and feelings into the unconscious.
ex: sexually assaulted as a child and having no memory of it as an adult.

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Denial

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A conscious refusal to perceive and believe painful facts or situations exist.
ex: death of a loved one.

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Reaction Formation

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Unacceptable thoughts and desires in the unconscious are expressed as their opposite in consciousness.
ex: speaking up about being environmentally friendly but litters when no one is looking.

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Projection

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Attributing one’s own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, impulses, and motives to others.
ex: easing the guilt of cheating on a test by believing everyone is cheating.

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Displacement

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Shifting the expression of an unwanted impulse from a threatening person to a less threatening one.
ex: taking out work stress on your kids.

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Rationalization

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Creating an acceptable and local explanation to replace true but threatening cause of behaviour.
ex: masking stealing from work as compensation for unfair salary.

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Regression

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Reacting to a threatening situation w/ a response characteristic of an earlier stage of development.
ex: an adult throwing a tantrum when not getting what they want.

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Sublimation

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Transforming inappropriate impulses and motives into socially acceptable and even valuable expressions.
ex: becoming a sex therapist to satisfy one’s own sexual desires.

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The 5 Psychosexual Stage: Oral Stage

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  • Birth to 2 years of age
  • Mouth as an erogenous zone
  • Conflict associated w/ weaning from breast or bottle feeding.
  • Healthy outcome leads to the development of willingness to delay gratification.
  • Unhealthy outcome leads to employing oral-related strategies (yelling, binge eating, etc.)
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The 5 Psychosexual Stage: Anal Stage

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  • 2 to 3 years of age
  • Anus as EZ
  • Conflict associated with toilet training
  • Healthy outcomes lead to seeking pleasure at the right time and right place.
  • Unhealthy outcomes lead to difficulty interacting w/ others due to inappropriate behaviour.
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The 5 Psychosexual Stage: Phallic Stage

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  • 3 to 6 years of age
  • Genitals as EZ
  • Conflict associated w/ competition w/ the same-sex parent for the affection of the opposite-sex parent
  • Oedipal complex for boys and Electra complex for girls.
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The 5 Psychosexual Stage: Latency Period

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  • 7 to 11 years of age
  • No EZ
  • Conflict associated w/ practicing emerging sex-role behaviours during interaction w/ same-sex peers.
  • Healthy outcome is acquiring and practicing the knowledge and skills necessary to execute sex-role behaviours.
  • Unhealthy outcome is exhibiting extreme sex-role stereotypical behaviour and relating with those who behave the same way due to the fear of rejection.
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The 5 Psychosexual Stage: Genital Stage

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  • 11 years to adulthood
  • Genitals as EZ
  • Conflict associated w/ the expression of emotional feelings and establishing meaningful relationships w/ others.
  • Healthy outcome is having the mindset that to get pleasure, one must also give pleasure; creates loving and healthy relationships with others.
  • Unhealthy outcome is being unable to form loving and intimate relationships due to the inability to provide comfort and love to others because of selfishness.