Personality Unit Test Flashcards
a. Displacement
b. Projection
c. Reaction-Formation
d. Sublimation
a. Involves taking out our frustrations, feelings, and impulses on people or objects that are less threatening
b. Involves taking our own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people
c. Reduces anxiety by taking up the opposite feeling, impulse, or behavior
d. Taking unacceptable impulses and turning them into socially valued motives/activities
Carl Jung
thought all people shared a collective unconscious. Common collection of images that we have gained together as human beings from our ancestral & evolutionary past
Alfred Adler
People compensate for inferiority complexes based on inadequacies
Karen Horney
feminist perspective to psychoanalytic theory
Raymond Cattell’s 16 Traits
16 traits are the source of all human personality
Factor analysis
he identified closely related terms and eventually reduced his list to just 16 key personality traits
Openness
to Experience, tendency to appreciate new art, ideas, values, feelings and behaviors
they want to try new things and think outside of the box
Conscientiousness
tendency to be careful, on-time for appointments, to follow rules, and to be hardworking
work within the rules, and plan and organize effectively
Extraversion
tendency to be talkative, sociable, and to enjoy others
Agreeableness
tendency to agree and go along with others rather than to assert one’s own opinions & choices
Neuroticism
tendency to frequently experience negative emotions
encompasses one’s emotional stability and general temper (high in neuroticism = emotionally unstable + unstable temperament)
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)
The most widely used and researched clinical assessment tool used by mental health professionals to help diagnose mental health disorders
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Self-report inventory designed to identify a person’s personality type, strengths, and preferences
(-) Studies have found that the reliability and validity of the instrument have not been adequately demonstrated
Social Cognitive Perspective
theory that maintains personality both shapes and is shaped by environment
Reciprocal Determinism
idea from the social cognitive perspective that thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and environment all influence each other in determining a person’s actions in a given situation
