Personality (chapter 12) Flashcards
Carl rogers, Abraham Maslow
self-actualization
person-centered perspective
personality
a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is unique to each individual and reasons relatively consistent over time and situations
idiographic approach
focus on detailed descriptions of individuals and their unique personality characteristics
(single individual, why they behave that way)
nomothetic approach
personality patterns in large groups of people with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure
(Multiple people)
descriptive labels
what is similar about personality between people
personality traits
“the units of personality”
specific psychological characteristics that make up part of a persons personality; how that person is most of the time
Allport and odbert
factor analysis
used to group items that people respond to similarly
-create personality trait labels by grouping related traits together
Five factor model
McCrae and Costa found that personality could be reduced to five major dimensions
Five facet model (FFM) (also big five personality factors)
OCEAN
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Emotional stability (Neuroticism)
NEO personality inventory
individuals rate themselves on multiple questions that reflect the traits
Hexaco model
six factor theory
OCEAN+H (honset-humility)
high scores- sincerem honest, faithful , modest
low scores- deceitful, greedy and pompous
Machiavellianism
a tendency to use people and to be manipulative and deceitful, lacking respect for others and focusing predominantly on ones own self-interest
MY EX BOYFRIEND
psychopathy
a general tendency toward having shallow emotional responses (No empathy to sympathy)
TED BUNDY
Jeffery dammer
narcissism
an egotistical preoccupation with self-image and an excessive sense of self-importance
THINK UR THE SHIT AND NEED AN AGO CHECK
authoritarian personality
tend to categorize the world as “us” versus “them” often leading to prejudice and violence against the “them” group
right-wing authoritarianism
set of personality characteristic that predisposes people to certain types of violent or anti-social tendencies
-in society it leads to prejudice and aggression
openness
use of synthesis-analysis and elaborative-processing learning styles
conscientiousness
GPA And exam performance
extroversion
higher relationship quality