Personality Flashcards
Personality (psychology)
A persons unique and relatively unchanging psychological characteristics and behaviours shaped by experiences, talents, hobbies, attitudes, values, beliefs and many other factors
Four types of personality theories
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Trait
Behavioural
Humanistic theory
Believe ones experiences, problems, potentials and ideals shape a persons personality
Abraham Maslow
Hierarchy of Needs
Gordon all port
Cardinal
Central
Secondary
Hierarchy of needs
People strive to achieve certain needs; moving higher up the pyramid as they fulfil lower levels
Progression slows/disrupt due to failure on lower levels
5 stages of hierarchy of needs
Basic needs Safety/security Love/belonging Esteem Self-actualisation
Kate - hierarchy of needs
Basic - access to food water etc
Safety - job, education, family
Love - family, friends
Esteem - achieving, all energy into achieving
Cardinal traits
Most dominant
Become know for single trait
Rare
Central traits
General characterisitcs
Used to describe person
Secondary traits
Specific circumstances
Kate - all port
Cardinal - caring
Central - caring, kind, loyal
Secondary - quality time with friends rather than party
Humanistic (Strengths and weaknesses)
Strengths
Emphasis on individual choice
Describes what it means to be human
Takes into account experience
Weaknesses
Too vague
Experience of one person may not relate to another
Trait theory (strengths and weaknesses)
Strengths
More objective
Categorises observations
Weaknesses
Explains how a person behaves but not why a person behaves in that way
Relies on self observation (honesty)
Personality (common)
Charm
Charisma
Style
