Personality approaches Flashcards
Personality five factor model
Personality is described using five traits including extroversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness
Behaviorists
Reinforcement of behavior determines personality
Social learning
Personality is also formed by modeling which is the observation of others
ID
Most primitive, unconscious, infantile, pleasure principle (Instant gratification)
Ego
Rational, logical, upholds the reality principle (Functions within reality)
Superego
Conscious, internalize social rules, punish his ego with guilt
Repression
Pushing off Thoughts, and pulses, and memories out of consciousness
Displacement
Redirection of an impulse from one channel into another
Rationalization
Reinterpretation of unacceptable thoughts
Criticisms of Freud
Critics contend that Freud’s theories are not testable, do not predict behavior, and are not based on wide samples
Humanistic theories focus on what?
Weather people achieve their potential
Maslow
The individual strives to fill a hierarchy of needs to attain self actualization
Hierarchy of needs
Levels of needs, with sociological needs such as food and water at the bottom and esteem and achievement higher up
Self actualization
The desire to realize once fullest potential, resides at top of hierarchy
Rogers
Focuses on the importance of self concept which is the sounds of the self as both an agent and object
