PERSPECTIVES IN THEORIES OF PERSONALITY Flashcards
Focused on the importance of early childhood experiences and on relationships with parents as guiding forces that shape personality development.
Psychodynamic
Views social and cultural forces as important.
Psychodynamic
People strive toward meaning, growth, well-being, happiness, and psychological health.
Humanistic-Existential
People are not only driven by a search for meaning but negative experiences are part of the human condition and can foster psychological growth.
Humanistic-Existential
People have a unique and long-term tendency to behave in particular ways. These unique dispositions are called traits.
Dispositional
(Perspective in TOP)
Differences in basic genetic, epigenetic, and neurological systems between individual is what influences our thoughts and behaviors.
Biological-Evolutionary
(Perspective)
Human thought, behavior and personality have been shaped by forces of evolution.
Biological-Evolutionary
(Perspective)
The focus is only on behavior, not hypothetical and unobservable internal states.
Learning-(Social) Cognitive
(Perspective)
Personality is shaped by how we think and perceive the world.
Learning-(Social) Cognitive
(perspective)
12 CONCEPTS OF HUMANITY/HUMAN NATURE
Determinism
Free Choice
Pessimism
Optimism
Causality
Teleology
Conscious
Unconscious
Social Biological
Influences
Uniqueness
Similarity
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.
OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
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.
5 KEY CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
- LEVELS OF MENTAL LIFE
- PROVINCES OF THE MIND
- DYNAMICS OF PERSONALITY
- DEFENSE MECHANISMS
- PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
LEVELS OF MENTAL LIFE
UNCONSCIOUS
PRECONSCIOUS
CONSCIOUS
Contains drives, urges, and instincts beyond awareness. It is also the reason behind dreams, slips, and certain kinds of forgetting (repression).
UNCONSCIOUS
Contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty.
PRECONSCIOUS
Those mental elements in awareness at any given point in time.
CONSCIOUS
Phylogenetic Endowment
UNCONSCIOUS
Two sources:
1. Conscious Perception
2. Unconscious
PRECONSCIOUS
From two directions:
1. Perceptual Conscious System
2. Within mental structure and the preconscious
CONSCIOUS
PROVINCES OF THE MIND
ID (THE “IT”)
EGO (THE “I”)
SUPEREGO (THE “ABOVE I”)
- Unrealistic
- Serves the pleasure principle
- Amoral
ID
- Reality principle
- Decision-making or executive branch of personality
EGO