Personality - The Dark Knight

Question 1

Five Factor Personality

Answer 1

• Extraversion
• Neuroticism
• Conscientiousness
• Agreeableness
• Openness to Experience

Question 2

Extraversion

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Neuroticism

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Conscientiousness

Answer 4

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)

Question 5

Agreeableness

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Openness to Experience

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Jung Psyche

Answer 7

Ego, Personal Unconscious, and Collective Unconscious

Question 8

Ego

Answer 8

• conscious part of personality
• embodies the sense of self
• similar to Freud’s ego

Question 9

Personal Unconscious

Answer 9

Part of the unconscious mind containing an individual’s thoughts and feelings

Question 10

Collective Unconscious

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

Jung Archetypes

Answer 11

Universal symbols and images that come from the collective unconscious, themes of personality within oneself

Question 12

The Hero Archetype

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

The Mentor Archetype

Answer 13

• Represents a wise, older figure who uses personal knowledge of people and the world to tell stories and offer guidance

Question 14

The Trickster Archetype

Answer 14

• embodies mischief and desire for change
• provides comic relief, bringing the Hero down to earth
• mocks what is around him

Question 15

Anima

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Animus

Answer 16

The masculine inner personality in the female’s unconscious

Question 17

The Shadow Archetype

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Bruce Wayne from a Jungian Perspective

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Hero’s Journey

Answer 19

Represent individual’s psychological growth as they confront features of their personal and collective unconscious in order to grow and fulfill their potential

Question 20

Hero’s Departure

Answer 20

The hero’s call to adventure, who is somewhat immature and needing wisdom on the way

Question 21

Hero’s Initiation

Answer 21

The confrontation, main part of the story

Question 22

Hero’s Return

Answer 22

The final step to accomplish the task and brings the hero home

Question 23

Hero’s Departure in The Dark Knight

Answer 23

Harvey Dent putting all the organized criminals in jail, which causes Joker to create trouble and calls Batman to a task

Question 24

Hero’s Initiation in The Dark Knight

Answer 24

The Joker crashes the party and kills city officials

Question 25

Hero’s Return in The Dark Knight

Answer 25

Batman’s sacrifice brought Gotham peace and allows the people to have faith in the government, bringing them comfort instead of the truth

Question 26

Prisoner’s Dilemma

Answer 26

• Where if both people confess, both get 5 years, if one confesses and one does not, one gets 20, and if both dont they get 1
• About willingness to sacrifice someone else for your comfort