personality psychology

Question 1

relatively enduring

Answer 1

refers to the consistent, long-term characteristics that define a person’s thought, feelings, behavior pattern, and interaction with environment and others. These traits, such as those in the Five Factor Model, remain stable over a lifetime and across generations.

Question 2

Personality

Answer 2

the enduring characteristics and behavior that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept, abilities, and emotional patterns.

Question 3

psychoanalytical approach

Answer 3

personality revolves heavily around the influence our past experiences have on shaping our unconscious minds, which in turn impacts the development of our personalities.

Question 4

Deterministic

Answer 4

It refers to the idea that free will is an illusion, and we have little to no control over the way we act.

Question 5

Conflict fixation

Answer 5

characterized by the conflict’s ongoing symbolic manifestation, results from a failure to find a solution. A fixation is defined as an individual’s persistent and obsessive focus on pleasure-seeking that is seen at an early stage of psychosexual development.