Personality, Motivation, Emotion and stress Flashcards
What is the life course perspective?
Approach developed to understand individual lives from a cultural, social and structural perspective.
What is the psychoanalytic perspective?
Asserts that personality is shaped largely by the unconscious.
Who is sigmund freud?
suggests that libido and death instinct motivates human behavior.
What is id?
Responsible for our desire to avoid pain and seek pleasure.
What is ego?
Responsible for our logical thinking and planning as we deal with reality.
What is superego?
Responsible for our moral judgments of right and wrong and strives for perfection.
What are Freud’s psychosexual stages?
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency and Genital
What age is the oral stage?
0-1
What age is the anal stage?
1-3
What age is the phallic stage?
3-6
What age is the latency stage?
6-12
What age is the genital stage?
12+
What is a Kinsey scale?
scale to measure sexuality. High = more homosexual
Low = more heterosexual
What are Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development?
Trust vs Mistrust (Infancy) Autonomy vs Shame (Early childhood) Initiative vs Guilt (Preschool age) Industry vs Inferiority (School age) Identity vs Role confusion (Adolescence) Intimacy vs Isolation (Young adulthood) Generativity vs stagnation (Middle age) Integrity vs Despair (Later life)
What is the humanistic perspective (by rogers)?
Asserts that humans are driven by an actualizing tendency to realize their highest potential, personality conflicts arise when this is somehow thwarted.
Humanistic vs psychoanalytical
human vs animal nature
What is the behaviorist perspective (by Skinner)?
Personality is a result of learned behavior patterns based on our environment
What is a behaviorist’s opinion on cognition?
cognition is too abstract and cannot be measured
What is a social cognitive perspective (by Bandura)?
Personality is a result behavioral, cognitive and environmental factors.
What is a trait perspective (by Hans Eysenck)?
Personality is a result of traits, which are habitual patters of behavior, thought, and emotion that are relatively stable over time.
Eg: OCEAN
Eysenck got it down to two: neuroticism and extroversion
What is a cardinal trait?
dominate an individual’s whole life. Prof said he is open minded so he travels and learns new languages etc…
His main trait drives him
What is a central trait?
General characteristics that is different across situations
What is the biological perspective?
Personality is a result of individual difference in brain biology
