personality Flashcards
What is a self schema? and what part of the brain is associated with processing information about self
integrated set of memories, beliefs, and generalizations about ourselves that is organized as a network of interconnected knowledge about the self.
Middle of the frontal lobe.
What types of personality assessments can we use
Projective measures: like the Rorschach inkblot and the Thematic Apperception Test.
Self report measures: Questionnaire based assessments.
personality in everyday life: Collecting data about someone interactions and tendencies.
What are the 5 big traits
Openness Conscientousness Extraversion Agreableness Nevrotism
What is Rotter Expectancy theory?
The importance of expectancy, values and the kind of locus of control
Differentiate temperament and traits
Temperament: Biologically based tendency to feel or act in certain ways. 3 aspects: Activity level, emotionality and sociability
general tendencies to feel or act in a certain way.
Personality traits: may be altered by life experience.
More specific aspects of personality
What are the 4 aspects that define one’s own relationship w/ self?
Self schema: integrated set of memories, beliefs and generalization about the self
working self concept: Reflects how a person thinks of herself at a certain moment, immediate, limited info about the self
Sense of self: Who one believes one is
Self esteem: Affective aspect of our sense of self
What is affected appraisal
how we believe others perceive us
What is the difference bw strong and weak situation?
Strong situation: where the power of the social environment is so great that it tends to mask differences in personality.
A weak situation tends to highlight differences
What defenses mechanisms are proposed by psychologist Anna Freud?
Projection: a person describes his own unacceptable quality in someone else.
Repression: a person has no memory of a traumatic event
Reaction formation: warding of an uncomfortable thought by overemphasizing its opposite.
rationalization: a person uses a plausible-sounding excuse to explain her behavior
Denial:a person refuses to believe something that is true.
They exist to protect one’s self esteem
What is the difference between basic tendencies and characteristic adaptations
basic tendencies: traits determined largely by biological processes. so they are stable over time
Characteristic adaptations: adjustment to situational demand. can vary over time
Freud’s stages of psychosexual dvpmt?
oral anal phallic latent genital
Bandura’s reciprocal determinism theory of personality
Environment
interact w. person factors (characteristics) and behavior (actions in situation)
