personality Flashcards

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a pattern of feelings, thinking, motives, and behaviors that make people different

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personality

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aspects of a person that is reasonably stable

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disposition

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between extrovert and introvert

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ambivert

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believed human body contained fluids called Humors that caused traits

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Hippocrates and Galen

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choleric, quick tempered

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yellow bile

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warm, cheerful, flush

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blood

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sluggish, cool

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phlegm

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melancholic, thoughtful

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black bile

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humans have 18000 traits; physical, moral, and behavioral traits

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Gordon Allport

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10
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traits are a building block of personality

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idiographic

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traits that are enduring and crucial

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cardinal traits

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12
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traits that are mostly consistent

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central traits

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13
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traits that are mostly situational

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secondary traits

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14
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systematically studied groups of people, rather than individuals

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Raymond Cattell

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obvious traits one can see

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surface traits

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16
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underlying traits effecting clusters of surface traits

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source traits

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Raymond Cattell’s 16 source traits that can be measured broken up into:

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ability, temperament, and dynamic traits

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18
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skills to function

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ability traits

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19
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emotional or style of behavior

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temperament traits

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20
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motivations

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dynamic traits

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21
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emphasized biological foundations, PEN

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Hans Eysenck

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how easily aroused, needs more stimulation

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PEN: extroversion/introversion

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how fast autonomic NS responds, needs less stimulation, immediate flow of emotions

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PEN: neuroticism

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24
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who invented the Big Five?

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Rogers and McCrae

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what is the Big Five?
openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
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high conscientiousness:
aware of surrounding, plan a b c d e f g, prepared
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low conscientiousness:
lazy, late
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high agreeableness:
go with the flow, no conflict
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low agreeableness:
no compromising, my way is right
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high openness:
adventurous, spice of life
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low openness:
routines, order same thing at restaurants
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hexaco?
big five plus honesty/humility
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psychoanalytic approach
Freud
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Freud believed personality was shaped by:
unconscious motives and influence of our past experiences
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people born with certain biological drives such as aggression, sex, and the need for superiority
Freud
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mind is dominated by the ___?
unconscious
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allowing people to just talk about whatever comes to their minds in a relaxed comfortable setting
psychoanalysis
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analyzing a patients description, letting them talk freely, hoped for a "Freudian slip"
free association
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explore the unconscious wishes found in dreams through their hidden meanings, latent content
dream analysis
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represents basic drives, pleasure principle
ID
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pays no mind to laws, social customs, or needs of others
instant gratification
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the reason and good sense, reality principle
ego
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satisfies the ID and provides conscious sense of self
ego
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develops with the incorporation of morals and values through childhood, moral principle
superego
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floods the ego with guilt and shame when we go against morals
superego
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believed early experiences shape us and unresolved conflicts can affect our personality
Erik Erikson
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children become in love with the opposite sex parent and hate the same sex parent
oedipus complex
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development is stopped at a certain age, habits formed in a stage can resurface later
fixation
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oral stage
1st year of life, place everything your mouth
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anal stage
1.5-2.5 years old, learn body control
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excessive self control, perfectionism
anal retentive
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having no restraint, messy
anal expulsive
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phallic stage
3 years old, notice physical differences in sexes, Oedipus complex develops
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latency stage
5-6 years old, starts to repress all aggression towards parents after years of conflict
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genital stage
11+ years old, puberty, become aware of all gender identity
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often unconscious mental process that makes possible compromise solutions to personal problems which causes personal anxiety
defense mechanisms
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removes anxiety causes by pushing them into unconscious
repression
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use of self deception to justify unacceptable behaviors
rationalization
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transfer of an idea from a threatening object to a less insulting object
displacement
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return to behavior that is characteristic of an earlier stage of development
regression
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projecting unacceptable impulses outward onto other people
projection
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act contrary to their genuine feelings in order to keep true feelings hidden
reaction formation
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refusing to accept the reality of anything that is bad
denial
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channel basic impulses into socially acceptable behavior
sublimation
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neo Freudian favoring the study of mysticism and religion on human behavior
Carl Jung
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store of human concepts shared by all people across all cultures
collective unconscious
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structural components of collective unconscious which are the accumulated ideas and images of all human beings
archetypes
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1 personal archetype which leads to an individual personality
sense of self
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neo Freudian that believed that people are basically motivated by a need to overcome feelings of inferiority
Alfred Alder
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stems from physical problems and a need to compensate or competition as children
inferiority complex
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neo Freudian who believed childhood experiences play a major role in development and greatest experience was social relationships
Karen Horney
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children develop feelings of insecurity due to complete dependence on parents
basic anxiety
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need to be accepted/approved of
moving toward
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open feelings and behaviors of hostility
moving against
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emotional detachment
moving away
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learning via observation, but engaged in purposeful learning via individual cognitive processes
social learning theory
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beliefs people have about themselves
self-efficacy expectations, BANDURA
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self awareness is core of humanity, focus on pursuits of self-fulfillment and ethical conduct
humanistic approach
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believed in special because humans can follow a path to self actualization to reach full potentials
Abraham Maslow
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peak experiences
hierarchy of needs
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people are conscious architects of own personality
Carl Rogers
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made up of impressions of ourselves and evaluations our adequacy
self concept
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provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
projection test
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people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about scenes
thermotic apperception test
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