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An individual’s unique and relatively stable patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings

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Peronsonality

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What are the theoretical approaches that help to explain how our personality develops?

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-Psychoanalytic
-Trait

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A method developed by Freud in which the attempt is to bring repressed unconscious material into the consciousness

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Psychoanalysis

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One’s current thoughts; what ever is being thought or experienced in the present moment

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Conscious level

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Contains memories not currently in use but can be accessed in the need arises.
-Memory bank
-The archive

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Preconscious level

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Forms the bulk of the mind; are the thoughts, desires, and impulses that on is unaware of

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Unconscious level

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Portion of personality concerned with immediate gratification of basic needs.
-Operates using pleasure principle (if it feels good, do it)
-Occurs in the unconscious level

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Id

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Portion of personality concerned with managing the impulses with reality.
-Operates using reality principle (consider the consequences)
-Occurs partially on conscious and preconscious levels

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Ego

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Portion of personality representing the conscience.
-Occurs on all three levels

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Superego

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An innate sequence of stages through which all humans pass. At each stage, pleasure is focused on a different region of the body.
-These stages determine our overall personality

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Psychosexual stages of development

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The psychic energy that powers all mental activity. An instinctual for residing in the id that focuses on pleasure

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Libido

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Excessive investment of psychic energy resulting in various psychological complexes/ disorders

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Fixation

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Pleasure is centered around the mouth through oral activities.
-Feeding, thumb sucking, and babbling
-birth - 2 years

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Oral stage

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  1. Reduce tension through oral activity
    -Smokers or overeaters
  2. hostile and verbally abusive to others
    -Sarcastic people and bullies
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  1. Oral repetitive personality
  2. Oral aggressive personality
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Pleasure is centered around elimination
-Child learns to respond to the demands of society; exerting bladder and bowel control
- 2 - 4 years

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Anal stage

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  1. Stingy, favor order and tidiness
    -Stubborn and perfectionists
  2. Lack of self control
    -Generally messy and careless
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  1. Anal retentive personality
  2. Anal expulsive personality
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Pleasure source is the genitals
-child learns to recognize the difference between males and females
- 4 - 7 years

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Phallic stage

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  1. Boys fear that if they anger their father’s he will cut off their penis; Think they need to eliminate the father
  2. Girls are envious that they do not have a penis, girls want to get rid of mother
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  1. Oedipus complex (castration anxiety)
  2. Electra complex (penis envy)
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Pleasure is focused on developing new skill, knowledge, socializing
-Libido is repressed, no conflict
- 7 - 12 years

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Latency stage

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Pleasure is sexual gratification
-Repressed need awakened and focuses on others instead of self
-12 years and up
-Adult capacity to combine lust and affection

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Genital stage

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Personality theorists who accept portions of Freud’s theory, but reject or modify portions

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Neo-freudian

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Shared Freud’s view of the importance of the unconscious but saw an area Freud missed
-Analytic

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Carl Jung

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Portion of personality that all humans share
-Experiences are part of our biological heredity that humans have acquired since we originated

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Collective unconsiousness

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The inherited images our collective unconsciousness holds that shapes our perception of the world

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Archtype

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Theories on personality that focus on identifying the key dimensions along which people differ

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Trait approach

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Specific dimensions along which people differ in consistent, stable, and unique ways.
-Both over time and across situation which is the reason they are measurable

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Personality trait

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Two key focuses of personality traits:
1. Evaluation of the person not just description through their mental and moral qualities
2.0 The core of an individual’s disposition that is apparent from infancy
-Seeming to be their nature

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  1. Character
  2. Temperment
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Establishes over 4500 different traits people display and classified them in to 3 categories

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Allport’s trait theory

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Trait that dominates an individual’s entire personality, typically rare since many traits are working at once
-“Christ like”

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Cardinal traits

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Basic building blocks of an individual’s personality
-“pessimistic, funny”

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Central traits

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Traits that are only present under certain conditions and are more superficial qualities
-Food preference, religious preference

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Secondary traits

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McCrae et al theory of personality dimensions in which an individual’s personality is places into themes

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Big Five Factors

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What makes up the big five factor

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O: openness
C: conscientious
E: extraversion
A: agreeableness
N: neuroticism

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