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PERSPECTIVES IN THEORIES OF PERSONALITY Flashcards

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Focused on the importance of early childhood experiences and on relationships with parents as guiding forces that shape personality development.

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Psychodynamic

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Views social and cultural forces as important.

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Psychodynamic

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People strive toward meaning, growth, well-being, happiness, and psychological health.

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Humanistic-Existential

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People are not only driven by a search for meaning but negative experiences are part of the human condition and can foster psychological growth.

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Humanistic-Existential

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People have a unique and long-term tendency to behave in particular ways. These unique dispositions are called traits.

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Dispositional
(Perspective in TOP)

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Differences in basic genetic, epigenetic, and neurological systems between individual is what influences our thoughts and behaviors.

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Biological-Evolutionary
(Perspective)

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Human thought, behavior and personality have been shaped by forces of evolution.

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Biological-Evolutionary
(Perspective)

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The focus is only on behavior, not hypothetical and unobservable internal states.

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Learning-(Social) Cognitive
(Perspective)

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Personality is shaped by how we think and perceive the world.

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Learning-(Social) Cognitive
(perspective)

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12 CONCEPTS OF HUMANITY/HUMAN NATURE

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Determinism
Free Choice
Pessimism
Optimism
Causality
Teleology
Conscious
Unconscious
Social Biological
Influences
Uniqueness
Similarity

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Human personality and behavior are
powerfully shaped by early childhood
relationships. They believed that humans are
primarily pleasure-seeking creatures dominated by sexual and aggressive impulses.

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OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

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OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

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Human personality and behavior are
powerfully shaped by early childhood
relationships. They believed that humans are
primarily pleasure-seeking creatures dominated by sexual and aggressive impulses.

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5 KEY CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY

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  • LEVELS OF MENTAL LIFE
  • PROVINCES OF THE MIND
  • DYNAMICS OF PERSONALITY
  • DEFENSE MECHANISMS
  • PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
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LEVELS OF MENTAL LIFE

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UNCONSCIOUS
PRECONSCIOUS
CONSCIOUS

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Contains drives, urges, and instincts beyond awareness. It is also the reason behind dreams, slips, and certain kinds of forgetting (repression).

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UNCONSCIOUS

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Contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty.

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PRECONSCIOUS

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Those mental elements in awareness at any given point in time.

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CONSCIOUS

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Phylogenetic Endowment

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UNCONSCIOUS

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Two sources:
1. Conscious Perception
2. Unconscious

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PRECONSCIOUS

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From two directions:
1. Perceptual Conscious System
2. Within mental structure and the preconscious

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CONSCIOUS

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PROVINCES OF THE MIND

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ID (THE “IT”)
EGO (THE “I”)
SUPEREGO (THE “ABOVE I”)

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  • Unrealistic
  • Serves the pleasure principle
  • Amoral
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ID

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  • Reality principle
  • Decision-making or executive branch of personality
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EGO

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  • Moralistic and idealistic principle
  • Unrealistic in its demand for perfection
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It is one of the provinces of mind that has two subsystems:
1. The conscience
2. Ego- ideal

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DYNAMICS OF PERSONALITY

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  • DRIVES/INSTINCTS
  • ANXIETY
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Every basic drive is characterized by an
impetus, a source, an aim, and an object.

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DRIVES/INSTINCTS

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  • Constant motivational force
  • Internal stimulus
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DRIVES/INSTINCTS

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It is grouped into two major headings: Sex and Aggression

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DRIVES/INSTINCTS

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The aim of sexual drive is pleasure
- Primary Narcissism
- Sadism
- Masochism

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  • Aim of destructive drive is to return the
    organism to an inorganic state
  • Flexible and can take many forms
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Aggression

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It warns us against impeding danger

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Neurotic- Fear that one’s inner impulses cannot
be controlled
Moral- Fear of violating moral or societal codes
Realistic- Tangible fears/ dangers

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11 DEFENSE MECHANISMS

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  1. Repression
  2. Reaction formation
  3. Displacement
  4. Fixation
  5. Regression
  6. Projection
  7. Introjection
  8. Sublimation
  9. Denial
  10. Rationalization
  11. Identification
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Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object

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Displacement

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Blocking a wish or desire from the conscious
expression

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Repression

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Expressing an impulse by its opposite

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Reaction formation

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Remaining at the present, more comfortable psychological stage

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Returning to an earlier form of expressing an impulse

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Regression

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Attributing an unconscious impulse, attitude, or behavior to another

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Projection

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Incorporating positive qualities of another person into
own ego

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Introjection

37
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Rechanneling an impulse into a more socially desirable outlet

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Sublimation

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Dealing with an emotion intellectually to avoid
emotional concern

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Rationalization

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Refusing to accept an unpleasant reality

39
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Modeling one’s behavior after the behavior of someone else

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Identification

40
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  • Most crucial for personality formation.
  • Exclusively Autoerotic
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Infantile Stage

40
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The erogenous zone is the mouth
Two types of Oral activity:
1. Oral-receptive
2. Oral-sadistic

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Infantile Stage / Oral Stage

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Oral Stage
(Birth to 1-year-old)

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Infantile Stage

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Anal Stage
(1 to 3-year-old)

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Infantile Stage

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  • Erogenous zone is the anus
  • Toilet training
  • Aggressive drive reaches fuller development
    Two sub-phases:
    1. Early Anal period Sadistic drive is stronger
    2. Late Anal period Anal-character (triad: orderliness, stinginess, obstinacy)
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Infantile Stage / Anal Stage

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Phallic Stage
(4 to 6-year-old)

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Infantile Stage

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  • Erogenous zone is the genital area
  • Dichotomy between male and female develops
  • Suppression of masturbation
  • Oedipus complex
    1. Male Oedipus complex
    • Castration anxiety
      1. Female Oedipus complex
    • Penis envy
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Phallic Stage

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A Stage/period from 6 year-old to puberty

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Latency
Period

44
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  • Dormant psychosexual development
  • Psychic energy is directed into social and cultural accomplishments
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Latency
Period / Latency Stage

45
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Genital Stage
(Puberty onwards)

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Genital Period

46
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  • Reawakening of the sexual aim
  • Sexual drive is no longer autoerotic
  • Synthesized sexual drive
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Genital Period / Genital Stage

47
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A stage attained after a person has passed
through the earlier developmental periods in an ideal manner.

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Maturity/ Psychological Maturity

47
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It fails to understand women and is strongly oriented toward men.

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PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY CRITICISMS

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Another criticism centers around his status as a scientist. His theory-building methods were considered by some writers as untenable and rather unscientific

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PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY: CRITICISMS

Theories of Personality - FREUD (5 decks)

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