Personality

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Unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over time and across situations

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Personality

Question 2

4 categories of personality theory

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Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Trait
Cognitive

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Psychodynamic

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Behavior results from the psychological dynamics that occur outside of our conscious awareness

Study of psychic energy and how it is transformed into behavior

Focus is on unconscious determinants of behavior

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ID

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Present at birth
Completely unconscious

“Pleasure principle”- wants immediate gratification, gets pleasure through reflexes and fantasy

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Ego

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Id’s link to reality
Controls thinking and reasoning

Works in conscious, pre conscious, and unconscious

“Reality principle”- seems to gratify Id in a safe and successful way

Not always socially acceptable

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Superego

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Works in conscious mind
“No”
Uses guilt as weapon

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Libido

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Energy created by our sexual instincts

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3 stages of personality

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Oral, anal, phallic

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Carl Jung

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Libido is all life force

Personal unconscious- repressed thoughts, forgotten experiences that can come to the surface if triggered

Collective unconscious- memories and behavior patterns are inherited through generations

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Bruno Bettelheim

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Looked for collective unconscious through folklore and fairytale

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Anima

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Female archetype expressed in man

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Animus

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Male archetype expressed in female

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Rational

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Thinking and feeling

Allows us to decide and to judge

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Irrational

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Intuition and sensation

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Karen Horney

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Environment and social factors shape personality

Need for basic security, response to real or imagined threats

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Anxiety

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Response to threats

Can be Motivating force

Not having needs met in childhood

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Submission

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Moving towards people

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Aggression

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Moving against people

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Detachment

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Moving away from people

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Erik Erickson

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Children must feel competent and valuable in their own eyes as well as society’s

Loved discipline

Face death with minimum fear at full maturity

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Humanistic psychology

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Positively motivated and progress toward a higher level of functioning

We are all personally responsible for our lives and their outcome

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Alfred Adler

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Positive view of humans

Social perfection

Compensation- an individuals attempt to overcome physical weakness

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Inferiority complex

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Weakness does NOT have to be real
Ability to master their own fate
Father of humanistic psychology

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Carl Rogers

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Everyone is born with certain potentials

Goal is to fulfill the genetic blueprint

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Actualizing tendency

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Seeking to become the best you can be

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Fully functioning people

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Self directed Brought up with “UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD” ^treated with warmth respect and acceptance

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Trait theories

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Focus on present and seek to describe the ways adult personalities differ People differ according to the degree in which they possess certain personality traits

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Traits

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Consistent behavior pattern or way of responding across a variety of situations and over time

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Cognitive theory

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Behavior is the product of the interaction of how we think about a situation, how we view our behavior in that situation learning from the past and the environment

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Bandura

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Learn by watching others

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Self efficiency

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The belief that you can do it

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Projective tests

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Answer comes from in you Sentences for a picture Before, after

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Memorado personality test

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How we perceive the world