Personality Flashcards
Define: Psychoanalysis
(Freud, Jung)
The existence of unconscious motives and unresolved childhood conflicts
Define: Humanistic Theory
(Maslow, Rogers)
Focus on the goodness of people and achievement towards growth
Define: Trait Perspective
(Allport)
Behaviour patterns and conscious motivations
Define: Social-Cognitive Perspective
(Bandura)
Interaction between traits and social context
Define: Id
Childhood desires and general pleasure seeking
Define: Superego
Moral judgements
Define: Ego
Orientated to reality
(reconciles the id and superego)
How does psychopathology result?
When unresolved conflicts arise between the Id, Superego, Ego and reality
Define: Psychodynamics
Focus on conscious and unconscious factors and underline how people think and feel
Define: Reciprocal Determinism
The mutual influences between personality and environmental factors
Complete the sentence for Reciprocal Determinism…
We are the_______ and _________of our lives
We are the CREATORS and PRODUCTS of our lives
What are the three main factors in Reciprocal Determinism?
Social, cognitive, personality
Define: Internal Locus
(and provide an example)
You control your own fate
e.g I could have studied more for the test, but I didn’t and that is why I got a bad grade
Define: External Locus
Things being beyond your control or fate
e.g My teacher hates me, and that is why I will never get a good grade
Define: Positive psychology
Focus on optimal human functioning and factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive
