Personality

Question 1

What are the 4 theoretical approaches

Answer 1

Psychodynamic

Behaviourist

Humanist

Psychometric

Question 2

What is the ID ego and superego

Answer 2

Id- pleasure principle

Ego- reality principle

Superego- morality principle

Question 3

What did Jung say about the unconscious

Answer 3

2 levels

Personal unconscious (once conscious)

Collective unconscious - inherited - (never conscious)

Question 4

What is the theory of self

Answer 4

Strive to fulfil potential, develop self esteem and psychological health

Question 5

What did skinner state about operate conditioning in his behaviourist approach

Answer 5

We learn via conditioning

Environment operates on us

We repeat actions that lead to favourable outcomes

Internal processes are of no interest, our personality is only reaction to situation

Question 6

What are the 2 social learning theories bandura proposed?

Answer 6

Observational learning

Reciprocal determinism

Question 7

What is observational learning (bandura)

Answer 7

Personalities shaped by what we see

Observe models and generalise to ourselves

Learn from indirect experience

Question 8

What is reciprocal determinism (bandura)

Answer 8

Environment shapes our personality but we also shape the environment

Question 9

What is Rogers humanist ideas of the self?

Answer 9

Personality is a collection of beliefs about ourselves

We are aware and work at them

Incongruence occurs when our self concept doesn’t map onto our behaviours

Question 10

What does it mean to be Incongruent?

Answer 10

Self imagine distance from ideal self

Self actualisation is hard

Question 11

What did Maslow say about self actualisation?

Answer 11

Personality is a reflection of our position on the ladder

Hierarchy of needs from basic to complex - further we ascend the less in congruence there is- more healthy

Question 12

What is a psychometric approach

Answer 12

If something exists it exists in some quantity- then it is able to be measured

Question 13

What did allport say about existence of traits

Answer 13

Personality made of building blocks, factors and traits

Cardinal, central and secondary traits
Values beliefs and attitudes

Question 14

Who was the first person to make a multi trait measuring instrument

Answer 14

Cattell

Question 15

What’s in the 5 factor model

Answer 15

OCEAN

Openness 
Contentiousness 
Extraversion 
Agreeableness 
Neuroticism

Question 16

What’s the projective approach

Answer 16

Describe images seen on ink blots

Projects own personality onto image