Theoretical And Methodological Foundations

Question 1

What is the most superficial level of personality

Answer 1

Persona (a mask): it is as one appears to others (personality) & a role one plays in life

Question 2

What is per sonare

Answer 2

To sound through - to come through the mask

Implies someone speaking/enacted script

Question 3

What is beneath the mask, the one who acts and directs?

Answer 3

Person

Question 4

Hippocrates was looking at types of symptoms and connecting them to which humours?

Answer 4

Blood
Yellow bile
Black bile
Phlegm

Question 5

Galen uses the 4 humours to look at

Answer 5

Temperament/ personality

Question 6

Personality today is seen as

Answer 6

An enduring pattern of thoughts, feeling and behaviours

Characteristic traits and unique dispositions

Question 7

Through history we’ve seen a shift from _______ to ________

Answer 7

Personification (roles)

Personalization (dispositions)

Question 8

The four humours did not disappear, they morphed into which 2 of Carl jungs psychological types?

Answer 8

Extroversion (thinking, feeling, sensing, intuiting) - extreme form found in hysteria
Introversion (thinking, feeling, sensing, intuiting)

Question 9

Eventually jungs theory of extroversion/introversion was tranformed unto which 4 Hans Eysenck’s typologies

Answer 9

Introversion
Extraversion
Stable
Unstable

Question 10

What is the most widely used personality measure in the world that is shown to predict performance on social-cognitive tasks?

Answer 10

Myers-Briggs Type indicator

Question 11

The Myers Briggs type indicator is based on

Answer 11

Jungs typology

Question 12

How many dimensions are in the Myers Briggs type indicater

Answer 12

16

Question 13

Test-retest studies using the myers test indicate

Answer 13

That personality is flexible

Question 14

The Myers test is not a good predictive measure of

Answer 14

Healthy behaviours or attitudes

Question 15

What are 4 commonly used personality types

Answer 15

Type A (choleric and sanguine)
Type B (phlegmatic)
Type C (melancholic an phlegmatic)
Type D (melancholic and choleric)

Question 16

What is type c personality

Answer 16

Individuals who are emotionally contained

Question 17

What are type D personalities

Answer 17

Refers to distressed personality

Question 18

What type of personality is cluster A

Answer 18

Odd/eccentric

Question 19

What type of personality disorder is cluster B

Answer 19

Dramatic/erratic

Question 20

What type of personality disorder is cluster C

Answer 20

Anxious/fearful

Question 21

What personality disorders are found in cluster A

Answer 21

Paranoid personality disorder
SchiZoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder

Question 22

What are the personality disorders found in cluster B

Answer 22

Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder

Question 23

What personality disorders are found in cluster c

Answer 23

Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Question 24

Personality disorders are among the most difficult to

Answer 24

Treat

Question 25

What is the phenemonological approach?

Answer 25

Understand the person (actor) and the personality (act or mask)

Question 26

What is descriptive phenomenology

Answer 26

Developed by Edmund husserl and used to study the meaning structures of phenomena as they are experience in and through perception

Question 27

What is interpretive (hermeneutic) phenomenology

Answer 27

Developed by Martin heidegger and used to describe and interpret phenomena as they are lived and experienced within a broader (socio-cultural) context

Question 28

Phenomenology seeks to _______ our experiences within the sociology historical context

Answer 28

Understand (not merely explain)

Question 29

What is life-world

Answer 29

Socio-historical context of your life

Question 30

What are the 4 layers(lenses) of subjective experience of self?

Answer 30

Umwelt Mitwelt Eigenwelt Uberwelt

Question 31

The umwelt is an impersonal (environmental) self that reveals _____

Answer 31

What you are (your masks)

Question 32

The mitwelt is the interpersonal self and reveals

Answer 32

How you are

Question 33

The eigenwelt is your interpersonal self and reveals

Answer 33

Who you are

Question 34

The uberwelt is your transpersonal self and reveals

Answer 34

Where you are moving

Question 35

What is the being-in-the-world?

Answer 35

The inter relationship of the life world and the lived world