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Four approaches

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Single trait, many trait, essential trait, typological approach.

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Single trait

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Identify all behaviors and life outcomes for one personality trait.
Ex: narcissism, self monitoring 

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Many trait approach

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Attempts to identify all of the personality traits that predict a particular behavior or life outcome
Ex. Preschool personality traits, conservative adult
Delinquent children ~> what traits

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California Q set

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Forced normal distribution

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The essential trait approach

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Identify the set of traits that are generally most important for describing and predicting behavior
Ex: cattells 16 essential traits, eysencks giant 3, big 5 

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Eysencks giant 3

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PEN
Psychoticism- aggressive, impulsive, self indulgent
Extroversion
Neuroticism

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Big 5

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OCEAN

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The typological approach

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Identifies groups of people with distinct combinations of personality characteristics. Qualitative rather than quantitative differences.
Ex. Myers brigs 

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Factor, facet, habit

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Factor- extroversion
Facet- sociability
Habit- smiling or telling a joke

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Neo

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Divides each of big five into six facets

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Meta traits

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Stability and plasticity

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Stability

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Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism 
How much impulse control and self control you have.
Linked to serotonin

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Plasticity

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Extroversion and openness
Engagement with the world and open to new experiences.
Linked to dopamine.

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State levels of personality

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South East higher agreeableness
North east higher neuroticism
Openness higher in major cities bc there’s more diversity and openness is facilitated

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Appearance and big five

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Agreeableness extroversion and openness

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Valid and invalid cue

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Invalid- how stale a room seemed and neuroticism
Valid- variety of CDs and openness

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Pros of big five

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Most traits conceptualized.
Quick and easy way to describe others.

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Cons of big five

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Are they most essential? (HEXACO)
Descriptive not explanatory.
Empirically derived not theory based.
Oversimplified.

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Plaster hypothesis

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Personality doesn’t change after 30

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Mean level change

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Average score on a trait, increases or decreases with age

Longitudinal or cross sectional

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Rank order change

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When ordering of individuals on a trait changes with age

Only use longitudinal 

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Maturity principle

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Adults are changing, mostly positively

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Retest correlation

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Rank order changes, if it stays the same rank order stability will be 1. If correlation is less than one then there has been a change

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Cumulative continuity principle

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Rank order stability increases with age

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Volitional personality change

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Many want to do something about parts of our personality, seeking to invoke change

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Five assumptions

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1) parts of the mind
2) levels of consciousness
3) mental conflict
4) mental energy
5) mental determinism 

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Three parts of mind

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ID, EGO, superego

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Mental conflict

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Id impulses, super ego demands, and reality often conflict with another.

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Mental energy

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All mental processes require mental energy (libido) 

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Mental determinism

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All behavior has specific causes in the mind. No accidental behavior.
Freudian slips = accidentally saying something but it is what you rly mean 

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Anxiety sources

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Psychological anxiety: unmet demands and unresolved mental conflicts
Realistic anxiety: actual threats in real world

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Defense mechanisms

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Ego processes used to keep anxiety out of consciousness
Denial repression intellectualization sublimation

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Denial

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Refusing to acknowledge or accept new threatening info

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Repression

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Forcefully, blocking, and anxiety provoking, thought from consciousness

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Intellectualization

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Thinking about a threatening impulses or situation in a detached analytical way

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Sublimation

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Transforming unacceptable impulses into a constructive behavior

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Oral

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Infant is all ID. Dependent. Focus on mouth and pleasure.

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Anal

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Toddler develops ego. Tries to control potty impulses. Control and obedience.

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Phallic

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Gender identification. Superego. Morality. Penis and vagina

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Latency

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No major psych issue

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Genital

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Maturity. Genitals. Creation and enhancement of life.

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Eriksons stages

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1)Trust v mistrust
2)autonomy v shame and doubt
3)initiative v guilt
4) industry v inferiority
5)identity v confusion
6)intimacy v isolation
7) generativity v stagnation
8) integrity v despair

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Psychic determinism

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Accidents not actually accidents

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Limitations of Freud

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Motives based entirely on physiological drives.
We have other needs than sex and aggression.
Difficulty to quantify and falsify. 

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REP test

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Constructs revealed by how are you discriminate among things. Looking for things relevant to you when you look at people

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Flow

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Complete absorption in an activity for its own sake. 

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Self actualization

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The process of improving towards one’s maximum potential 

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Conditions of worth (Rogers)

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Do this well, why ppl like you. Encourage personal growth. Unconditional positive regard. 

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Maslow hierarchy of needs

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Needing to focus on other more basic concerns.
Food, safety, belonging, esteem, self actualization. 

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Hedonia

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Maximize pleasure, minimize pain

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Eudalmonia

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Universal needs
1) autonomy
2) competence
3)relatedness

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Paths to happiness

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Life of pleasure
Life of engagement
Life of meaning

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Hedonic adaptation

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Ability to quickly adapt to changes

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