Section 15-17 Flashcards
Personality definition
Unique thinking, acting, feeling throughout life
Personality
Remains fairly stable
Unique: each one is like a snowflake
Id
Only one your born with
Basic need and drives
Impulsive
Ego
Decision maker
Job is to satisfy the Id in a way society allows it
Superego
Your conscious
Sense of right and wrong
Comes from parents
Behavioral perspective
Rewards and punishments
Humanistic Perspective
Every person deep down is good
Self actualization
Basic idea that everyone is trying to be the best they can be
Genetic perspective
Your personality is inherited
Monozygotic
Identical
100%
Dizygotic
Fraternal
50%
Personality traits
Basic dimensions on which people differ
Characteristics of personality traits
Consistent
Stable
Individual differences
Objective
Test has standard set of questions
Limited amount of responses
Most used
No interpretation needed
MMPI-2
One of most widely used
Has different sub scales- full version is over 500 questions
Designed to catch cheaters
Projective
Has ambiguous stimuli- no wrong answer
Responses need to be interpreted
Not as accurate
Psychology
Science of mind and behavior
DSM-5
Describes about 250 disorders
Criteria of symptoms
Does not determine ‘cause’
Comorbidity
More than one mental disorder
- one group is eating disorders
- another one is incest or child abuse
Anxiety disorders
Nervous system arousal
Sense of dread
Major depressive disorder (unipolar)
Most common disorder
- Female to male ratio is 2:1
SSRI
Needs to be taken 2-6 weeks before it starts to work
Symptoms of unipolar
Lack of sleep
Anxious, sense of guilt
Anhedonia
Anhedonia
Lack of interest in doing anything
Bipolar mood disorder
Persons show extreme changes in mood at both ends of spectrum
Manic to depression
