Personality Theories Flashcards
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Personality assessment
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The Big Five and Traits
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- openness
- conscientiousness
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- neuroticism/stability
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openness
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Imaginative; Practical
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Conscientiousness
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Organized; Disorganized
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Extraversion
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Sociable; Retiring
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Agreeableness
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Softhearted; Ruthless
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Neuroticism / Stability
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– Anxious; Calm
– Insecure; Secure
– Self-Pity; Self-Satisfied
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Humanism
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emphasis on a person’s capacity for personal growth and positive human qualities.
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Psychoanalytic Approach
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Freud & Psychoanalysis
- sex drive – main determinant of personality development
Hysteria
- physical symptoms without physical cause
- overdetermined – which means that it has multiple unconscious causes
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Id
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- instincts and reservoir of psychic energy
- pleasure principle
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Defense Mechanisms
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- Denial: disbelieve present reality
- Repression: forget the unacceptable
- Rationalization: claim different motive
- Displacement: shift feelings to new object
- Sublimation: transform vile to valuable
- Projection: attribute own faults to others
- Regression: revert to earlier, “safer” period
- Reaction Formation: convert to opposite emotion
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Repression
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– push unacceptable impulses
out of awareness
– foundation for all defense mechanisms
13
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Maslow
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- third force psychology
- self-actualization
- peak experiences
- biased since focus was on
highly successful individuals
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Ego
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- deals with the demands of reality
- reality principle
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Superego
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moral branch of personality; “conscience”
