Personality Flashcards
Psychodynamic perspective and personality
Personality retains some aspects of freudian theory but is more likely to see unresolved childhood conflicts
Personality
Individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting
Free association
Method of exploring the unconscious and which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
Unconscious according to Freud
Regions of mind that is a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts wishes feelings and memories
Id
Pleasure principle
Super ego
Internalized ideals
Ego
Reality principle
Phallic
Gentian has pleasure
Latency
Dormant sex feelings
Centeial
Maturation
Collective unconscious
Shared inherited reservoir of memory that Traces from our ancestors
TAT tests
Projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests to the stories they make up
Humanistic perspective of personality
Perspective that focuses on the study of conscious experience
Carll Rogers
Humanistic psychologist who stressed importance of acceptance, genuiness and empathy
Definition of trait
Characteristics pattern of behavior
Eysencks theory of traits
Offered alternatives to account for individual virations
Personality inventory
Questionnaires in which people gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors
Test reliability
Consistency
Test validity
measures or predicts what is supposed to happen
Social cognitive perspective of personality BANDURA
Perspective stating that understanding personality Involves considering situation and thoughts before during afternoon event
External locus of control
Perception of chance
internal locus of control
perception of control
Learned helplessness
Hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human when is one un able to avoid repeated bad events
Positive psychology (seligman)
Movement in psychology that focuses on the study optional human functioning and factors that allow individual thrive
