Personality Flashcards
Personality consists of:
the reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish one person from another
the reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish one person from another is referred to as:
Personality
The Psychodynamic Theory was fist proposed by:
Sigmund Freud
Freud believed that our personality is characterized by:
Conflict
Freud believed that our personality is characterized by conflict and our behavior is a result of these:
inner conflicts
Unconscious urges are kept below the surface by ___________
repression
Psychoanalysis
Form of therapy used to explore the _____________ mind
unconscious
According to Freud, the human iceberg is comprised of the _____, the __________ and the __
Ego, Superego, Id
The Id works mostly in relation to the __________ principle.
Pleasure
The Ego works mostly in relation to the __________ principle
Reality
The Superego works mostly in relation to the ________ principle
Moral
The three psychic structures of personality are:
The Ego, the Superego, and the Id
According to Freud the stages of Psychosexual development are:
Oral, Anal, Latency, and Genital
Fixations at any stage of Freud’s psychosexual behavior are expressed by ____________ of that stage
characteristics
In the Oral stage of psychosexual development conflict centers on _________ and extent of _______ gratification
Nature, Oral
The Anal Stage of psychosexual gratification focuses on the control of ____________ ___ _________. Learn to delay gratification – self-control
elimination of waste
In the Phallic Stage of psychosexual development there is a Oedipus or Electra complex that is resolved resolved through identification with ______ ____ _______
same sex parent
In the latency stage of Freud’s stages of psychosexual development,
Sexual feelings remain ______________
unconscious
Carl Jung was a ____-Freudian
Neo
Carl Jung believed we share a ______________ unconscious
collective
Carl Jung believed that evidence of collective unconscious
is _________________
Archetypes
Keren Horney was a___-Freudian
Neo
Karen Horney argued that girls do not feel __________ to boys.
Inferior
Karen Horney argued that Social relationships are more important than unconscious________ and _____________ impulses
sexual, aggressive
Erik Erikson was a Neo-Freudian who developed _____________ Development
Psychosocial
In Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory there are ____ stages that are named for traits that should develop then.
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_______ are reasonably stable elements of personality that are inferred from behavior
Traits
Hippocrates (ca. 460-377 BCE)
-Personality depends on the balance of four _____ (humors) in the body
fluids
Charles Spearman – factor analysis
Heritable traits embedded in the _____________ ________
nervous system
Gordon Allport (1936)
Catalogued _________ human traits
18,000
Hans Eysenck’s ______ Theory focuses on relationship between
Introversion – Extraversion
Stability – Instability (Neuroticism)
Trait
The “Big Five”_____ ______ ________ includes 5 basic personality factors
extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness to experience
Five Factor model
The Five Factor Model is a popular means of developing ___________ “types”.
personality
John B. Watson’s Behaviorist model focuses on determinants of __________behavior
observable
B.F. Skinner-
Emphasized the effects of ____________ on behavior
reinforcements
The criticism of B. F. Skinner’s and John Watson’s theories was that it
ignored the role of ________ and _________________
choice and consciousness
Humanism argues people are capable of ____-______ and ____-__________
free choice and self-fulfillment
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs there is a conscious need for _____-_____________
self-actualization
Self Theory focuses on nature of self and conditions that allow the self to ________freely
develop
Carl Roger’s Self Theory focuses on nature of self and conditions that allow the self to _______ ________
develop freely
Self-Concept is our ___________ of ourselves and ___________our of our adequacy
impressions, evaluations
Ideal Self is who we would like to ___________
become.
Unconditional positive regard is when you accept the child as having intrinsic merit regardless of present __________
behavior
