Personality - The Dark Knight Flashcards
Five Factor Personality
- Extraversion
- Neuroticism
- Conscientiousness
- Agreeableness
- Openness to Experience
Extraversion
Warm, gregarious, assertive, excitement seeking
• react less to sensory stimuli
• correlates to positive emotions
• sensitive to rewards and positive emotions
• advantages: higher status, rated as more popular and physically attractive
• disadvantages: argumentative, need to be in control, poor time management
Neuroticism
Emotional instability, negative emotionality
• hostile, self conscious, impulsive
• ineffective problem solving, strong negative reactions to stress
• sensitive to social threats
• negatively correlated with happiness, well being, physical health
Conscientiousness
Competent, dutiful, achievement striving, self-discipline
• used to select employees through integrity tests
• predicts job performance and absenteeism
• predicts the scoring for one’s spouse (conscientious people like each other)
Agreeableness
Conformity, friendly compliance, likeability, warmth, love
• cooperative and easy to get along with
• rate others more positively
• smoke less
• women tend to be higher in than men
• likely to be religious, healthier, and recover faster from accidents
Openness to Experience
Creative, imaginative, artistic, open-minded, clever
• tend to be politically liberal
• more likely to do drugs, pursue artistic interests
• less replicable across samples and cultures
Jung Psyche
Ego, Personal Unconscious, and Collective Unconscious
Ego
- conscious part of personality
- embodies the sense of self
- similar to Freud’s ego
Personal Unconscious
Part of the unconscious mind containing an individual’s thoughts and feelings
Collective Unconscious
- Part of our unconscious that is inherited and common to all members of a species
- contents and modes of behavior that are identical in all human beings, universal nature
Jung Archetypes
Universal symbols and images that come from the collective unconscious, themes of personality within oneself
The Hero Archetype
- Greek Origin - any character that was half god and half human
- Later refers to characters that face danger from a position of weakness, displaying courage
The Mentor Archetype
• Represents a wise, older figure who uses personal knowledge of people and the world to tell stories and offer guidance
The Trickster Archetype
- embodies mischief and desire for change
- provides comic relief, bringing the Hero down to earth
- mocks what is around him
Anima
Exists in the unconscious of the male, as a feminine inner personality
• the most important factor in the psychology of a man in terms of emotions
Animus
The masculine inner personality in the female’s unconscious
The Shadow Archetype
Represents the unconscious self, where primitive, negative emotions and impulses exist
• not necessarily bad, just a part of ourselves we deny or ignore for any reason
Bruce Wayne from a Jungian Perspective
Batman appeals to our own need to face and manage our own shadow selves
• Bruce Wayne is extraverted, Batman is dark and brooding
• Batman is a way for Bruce to deal with the pain of loss of parents
Hero’s Journey
Represent individual’s psychological growth as they confront features of their personal and collective unconscious in order to grow and fulfill their potential
Hero’s Departure
The hero’s call to adventure, who is somewhat immature and needing wisdom on the way
Hero’s Initiation
The confrontation, main part of the story
Hero’s Return
The final step to accomplish the task and brings the hero home
Hero’s Departure in The Dark Knight
Harvey Dent putting all the organized criminals in jail, which causes Joker to create trouble and calls Batman to a task
Hero’s Initiation in The Dark Knight
The Joker crashes the party and kills city officials
