Personality

Question 1

What is a personality trait?

Answer 1

Durable disposition to behave in a particular way across a variety of situations

Question 2

What is the five factor model?

Answer 2

Most aspects of personality are derived from five crucial traits:
- neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness

(OCEAN)

Question 3

What are the five traits from the five factor model predicative of?

Answer 3

Grades, occupational attainment, divorce, health, mortality

Question 4

What is a personality?

Answer 4

A persons unique combination of consistent behavioral traits

Question 5

What do people who score high in extraversion act like?

Answer 5

Outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, gregarious, positive outlook on life, pursue intimacy and relationships

Question 6

What is someone who scored high on neuroticism like?

Answer 6

Anxious, hostile, self conscious, insecure, vulnerable, impulsive, emotionally unstable

Question 7

What do people who score high in openness to experience act like?

Answer 7

Curiosity, flexibility, imagination, motivated, interested in new ideas, unconventional attitudes

Question 8

What do people who score high on agreeability act like?

Answer 8

Sympathetic, trusting, cooperative, modest, straightforward, empathy, helpful

Question 9

What do people who score high in conscientiousness act like?

Answer 9

Diligent, organized, punctual, dependable, self disciplined, can regulate themseves

Question 10

What are psychodynamic theories?

Answer 10

All the diverse theories descended from the work of signing Freud

Focus on unconscious mental forces

Question 11

What did Freuds psychoanalytic theory develop out of?

Answer 11

His work with his clients and treating patients

Question 12

How does psychoanalytic theory attempt to explain personality?

Answer 12

Focusing on the influence be of early childhood experiences, unconscious conflicts, and sexual urges

Question 13

Why were people uncomfortable with Freuds theory?

Answer 13

Suggested people are not masters of their mind, adult personalities are shaped by things beyond your control, emphasized the importance of how people cope with sexual urges

Question 14

What is the id?

Answer 14

The primitive, instinctive component of personality, demands instant gratification for its urges

Ex eating sleeping sex

Question 15

What is the ego?

Answer 15

Decision making component of personality that operates by delaying gratification of the id urges until it is appropriate

Question 16

What is the superego?

Answer 16

Moral component of personality that I corps Tera social standard about what is right and wrong, good or bad

Question 17

What does the conscious consist of?

Answer 17

Whatever you are aware of

Question 18

What does the preconscious contain?

Answer 18

Materials that are just beneath your awareness but can be easily retreived

Question 19

What does the unconscious contain?

Answer 19

Thoughts, memories, and desires that are far below the surface of conscious awareness but still have an influence on behaviour

Question 20

What are defense mechanism?

Answer 20

Mostly unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt

Usually mental maneuvers that work through through self deception

Question 21

What is rationalization?

Answer 21

Defense mechanism that involves creating false but plausible excuses to justify behaviour

Ex it’s ok everyone does it

Question 22

What is repression?

Answer 22

Defense mechanism that involves keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious

Question 23

What is projection?

Answer 23

Defense mechanism that involves attributing your own thoughts, feelings, and motives onto someone else

Question 24

What is displacement?

Answer 24

Defense mechanism where you divert emotional feelings from their original source to a substitute target

Usually anger

Question 25

What is reaction formation?

Answer 25

Defense mechanism that involves behaving in a way that’s it the opposite of how you feel

Question 26

What is regression?

Answer 26

Defense mechanism where you revert to immature patterns of behaviour

Question 27

What is identification?

Answer 27

Defense mechanism where you make up a imaginary or real alliance with a person or group to help your self esteem

Young people identifying with celebrites

Question 28

What is sublimation?

Answer 28

Defense mechanism where unconscious and unacceptable impulses are channeled into socially acceptable behaviour

Aggression can turn into being a pro boxer

Healthy defense mechanism

Question 29

What are the five psychosexual stages?

Answer 29

Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

Question 30

What is the age, focus, and important tasks of the oral stage?

Answer 30

0-1, mouth (sucking and biting), weaning from bottle or breast

Question 31

What is the age, focus, and important tasks of the anal stage?

Answer 31

2-3, anus (expelling or retaining feces), potty training

Question 32

What is the age, focus, and important tasks of the phallic stage?

Answer 32

4-5, genitals (masturbating), identify with adult role modes, and coping with Oedipal complex

Question 33

What is the age, focus, and important tasks of the latency stage?

Answer 33

6-12, none (sexually repressed), expanding social contacts

Question 34

What is the age, focus, and important tasks of the genital stage?

Answer 34

Puberty on, genitals (being sexually intimate), establishing intimate relationships and contributing to society

Question 35

What did Carl Jung say the two layers on the unconscious are?

Answer 35

Personal unconscious (same as Freud)

Collective unconscious (stores memories inherited from ancestors)