PS7: personality

Question 1

psychoanalytic perspective

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud
focuses on the role of early childhood experiences and the unconscious mind in shaping personality

Question 2

death instinct

Answer 2

motivated destructive behaviors

Question 3

id

Answer 3

pleasure center, fueled by libido to seek reward and avoid pain

Question 4

superego

Answer 4

center of moral judgment and perfection

Question 5

ego

Answer 5

mediator between id and superego, works to find compromise

Question 6

humanistic perspective

Answer 6

Carl Rogers
people shape their own mind and personality through free will and self-awareness

Question 7

social cognitive perspective

Answer 7

Albert Bandura
learning through observation and social interaction plays a vital role in development (bobo doll experiment)

Question 8

behaviorist perspective

Answer 8

BF Skinner
people’s personalities can be shaped by the environment and controlled by society through reinforcement

Question 9

biological perspective

Answer 9

personality is shaped by innate biological traits

Question 10

big 5 (OCEAN model)

Answer 10

openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism

Question 11

dramaturgical perspective

Answer 11

personality takes place on a front or backstage, depending on our surroundings

Question 12

frontstage

Answer 12

actions that are seen by others

Question 13

backstage

Answer 13

actions that no one can see