Personalities Flashcards
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Neuroticism -> Stability
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People who score highly on neuroticism show anxiety and guilt feelings
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Trait Theory of Personality
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- Nomothetic Theories
- Individuals have many traits
3 Factors:
1) Introversion -> Extroversion (Myers and Briggs 1921)
2) Neuroticism -> Stability
3) Psychoticism -> Impulse Control
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Psychoticism -> Impulse Control
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- Aggressive
- Cold
- Lack of Empathy
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Psycho-Dynamic Theory
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- Ideographic Thoery
- Behaviour is influenced by unconscious mind
- Iceberg analogy (part above water is conscious)
3 Major Systems:
1) Ego: Conscious and in touch with the real world
2) Id: Childlike and demands that it needs to be fulfilled
3) Super Ego: Individuals conscience and tends to be authoritarian