Personality Flashcards
Psychoanalytic or psychodynamic theories of personality
Have the assumption unconscious internal states that motivate the overt actions of individuals and determine personality
Id
All the basic, primal, inborn urges to survive and reproduce. Functions according to pleasure principle
Pleasure prinicple
Aim is to achieve immediate gratification to relieve any pent up tension
Ego
Operates according to the reality principle which takes into account objective reality as it guides or inhibits the activity of the id or the id’s pleasure principle.
Relationship between ego and superego
Ego is responsible for moderating the desires of the superego
Superego
Personality’s perfectionist, judging our actions and responding with pride at our accomplishments and guilt at our failures.
3 main categories for id, ego and superego
Thoughts to which we have conscious access
Thoughts that we aren’t currently aware of (preconscious)
Thoughts that have been repressed (unconscious)
2 types of instincts according to Freuid
Life and death
Life: Promote quest for survival, thirst, hunger and sex
Death: Unconscious wish for death and destruction
8 defense mechanisms
Repression Suppression Regression Reaction formation Projection Rationalization Displacement Sublimation
Assumption of rorschach ink blot?
Person will project their unconscious feelings onto the shape.
Important Jungian archetypes
Persona: The aspect of our personality we present to the world
Anima: The man’s inner woman
Animus: The woman’s inner man
Shadow: Unpleasant and socially reprehensible thoughts, feelings and actions in our consciousness
Humanistic theorists
Focus on the value of individuals and take a more person-centered approach
Type A personality
Behavior that tends to be competitive and compuslive
Type B personality
Laid back and relaxed
Big five traits of personality
Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism