Perspectives in Personality

Question 1

Trait perspective

Answer 1

the idea that ppl have fairly stable qualities/traits that are displayed across many settings and are deeply embedded in the person.

Question 2

Motive Perspective

Answer 2

the idea that in human experience it’s the motive forces that underlie behavior

• ppl also differ in their patterns of underlying strengths of diff motives
• the differences in the balance of these motives are seen as the core of personality in this perspective

Question 3

Inheritance & Evolution perspective

Answer 3

emphasizes that humans are creatures that evolved and that human nature is deeply rooted in our genes

• personality is genetically based & dispositions are inherited
• many qualities of human behavior many have had evolutionary benefits long ago

Question 4

Biological Process perspective

Answer 4

idea that personality reflects the workings of the body we inhabit and the brain runs the body
-focuses on how nervous system and hormones influence ppl’s behaviors and how differences in those functions influence the person u are

Question 5

Psychoanalytic Perspective

Answer 5

the idea that personality is a set of internal psychic forces or pressures that sometimes work with eachother and sometimes conflict with eachother
-focuses on the dynamics of these forces & how they influence behavior

Question 6

Psychosocial persperctive

Answer 6

-assumes that the most important aspect of human nature is our formation of relationships with other people and the ways they play out

Question 7

Learning perspective

Answer 7

a view of human nature in which change, rather than constancy

• behaviour changes systematically as a result of experiences
• a person’s personality is the intergraded sum of what the person has learned up until now

Question 8

Self-actualization & self-determination perspective (organism perspective)

Answer 8

• the idea that every person has the potential to grow and develop into a valuable human being if permitted to do so
• ppl tend toward self-perfection
• exercising free will & having environments that support them
• personality is the uniqueness hidden within and partly what the person chooses to do with that uniqueness

Question 9

Cognitive perspective

Answer 9

idea that human nature involves finding meaning from experiences

Question 10

self-regulation perspective

Answer 10

idea that people are complex psychological systems