personality Flashcards
characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports
trait
described personality in terms of fundamental traits
gordon allport
who taught gordon allport that psychoanalysis may plunge too deep. psychologists would do well to give full recognition to manifest motives before probing unconscious
sigmund freud
attempted to sort people according to carl jungs personality types
isabel myers and kathrine briggs
believed that we can reduce many of our normal individual variations to 2 or 3 dimensions
hans and sybil eysenck
two dimensions of personality according to the eysenecks
extraversion-introversion
emotional-stability-instability
true or false…
there is evidence that the dimensions in eysencks theory have a biological basis
true
5 big factors of eysencks theory
conscientious aggresbleness neuroticism openness extraversion
looks for genuine personality traits that persist over time and across situations
person situation controversy
swiss psychiatrist
1875-1961
follower of freud
broke away in 1914 and formed his own theory called analytical psychology
carl jung
what was the first reason jung broke away from freud
disagreed with the heavy emphasis on the sex motive
felt people were motivated more by moral and religious values than by primitive sexuality
what is the second reason jung differed from freud
placed more emphasis on goals while freuds emphasis was on instincts.. thought people would strive more for unity and wholeness
the whole personality
consists of conscious ego, personal unconscious, collective unconscious
psyche
experiences that were once conscious but have since been forgotten or repressed
personal unconscious
shared by all human beings and contains archetypal images passed down from our prehistoric ancestors
collective unconscious
the psychic residue of mans evolutionary development
universal
collective unconscious
foundation of personality and the most influential region of the psyche
collective unconscious
inherited images that are passed down from our prehistoric ancestors
reveal themselves as universal symbols in art, dream, and religion
archetype
the archetype related to the self, the front presented to other people
false mask that feigns individuality, making the person and others believe that they are an individual when they are actually acting a role through which the collective unconscious speaks
persona
persona and self of a psychologically healthy individual
fairly congruence
represents the unconscious drives and desires of the personal unconscious
the dark side of humans; an inferior, undesirable part of personalities that we prefer not to recognize
shadow
the feminine archetype in men
projected image of the female throughout history in men’s unconscious
determines a mans relationship to women throughout his life
anima
the masculine archetype in women
serves the same function as the anima in men
jung claimed that a psychologically healthy person must maintain a balance between their masculinity and femininity
animus
a person who is socially reserved and prefers to pay attention to private mental experiences
responds mainly to internally oriented stimuli, such as their own ideas and inner thoughts
introvert
a person who is socially outgoing and prefers to pay attention to the external
responds mainly to the external stimuli such as social situations and ideas from others
extravert
