Personality Flashcards
What does personality mean?
” The relatively permanent traits, dispositions, or characteristics within the individual that give some measure of consistency to the persons personality.”
What is projective test
Designed to uncover the unconscious
Rosch test (Rorschach Inkblot)
Looking at the object and thinking what it may be
Thematic Apperception Test
Thinking of a story along with picture
Childrens Drawling
Seeing kids personality through the pictures they draw
Sentence Completion
When I get angry _______, When they laughed_____, This shows how they feel and how there brain works
The Psychodynamic Perspective
-Psychic forces within the person
-Early Childhood experiences
-Unconscious
Psychoanalysis
Freud states that psychoanalysis causes of physical alignments (talking cured them)
Freud Theory (thought)
3 levels of thought
+Conscious (future)
+Preconscious (Remembering) (future)
+Unconscious (there but unconscious)
Freud Theory ( Personality structures)
3 basic personality structures
+ID ( deep experiences) -> Unconscious
+Ego ( thoughts)
+Superego (Perception)
The ID
+ Completely Unconscious
+Sexual and Aggressive Urges/ Motives
+Pleasure Principles
o Seeks immideitly satisfaction
The Ego
+Develops from the ID
+Satisfy the ID’s impulses
+Reality Principle
o Ego is applying society norms to satisfy wants
Superego
+The moral sense of right and wrong
+From Parents and Society
+Guilt and Pride
Defense Mechanism
+Done by the unconscious
+Designed to reduce anxiety
Denial
To not believe when given extremely important information
