Unit 11

Question 1

Psychic energy

Answer 1

Eros (libido)- sexual energy, need to get rid of it, creation, desire
Thanatos- 2nd psychic energy, Death and destruction, challenge people, competitive side

Question 2

Defense Mechanisms

Answer 2

techniques to minimize anxiety and stress
ego is synonymous with our self esteem
we do things that defend our self esteem

Question 3

Denial, Repression, Suppression

Answer 3

Denial- refusal to accept
Repression- bury into unconscious, unable to remember
Suppression- keeping ideas in the preconscious, rise to the surface, block the ideas from crossing your mind

Question 4

Displacement, Projection, Rationalization

Answer 4

Displacement- transferring negative emotions, cant yell back, always maladaptive
Projection- attributing your own flaws onto others, insecure and dont accept but you see it in others
Rationalization- swapping the truth for a socially desirable excuse, manipulate, gaslighting

Question 5

Regression, Anticipation, Humor Sublimation

Answer 5

Regression- less mature emotional response
Anticipation- anxious preparation and preoccupation, opposite of denial
Humor- self depreciation, dark humor
Sublimation- redirecting energy and emotion, accept something bad and redirect energy into something good

Question 6

Historical personality types

Answer 6

Ayurveda - body type of air (VATA), earth (KAPHA), fire (PITTA)
Hippocrates Humours - personality caused by phlegm, bile, and blood in your body.

Question 7

Jungian types- cluster people into 4 personality types

Answer 7

sensing - earth type (pragmatic, down to earth)
intuition - fire type (passion and illogical)
feeling - water type (emotions and connection)
thinking - air type (rational and logical)

Question 8

Criticisms of Myers-Briggs MBTI

Answer 8

• not empirically supported
  forced choice- must choose between two. Emotions v logic, fact v theory
  categories vs distributions- chose is you are an extravert or introvert

Question 9

Cattell- Lexical approach

Answer 9

Statistical approach- 16 factors- best personality trait recognition

Question 10

Big 5 factor model- most widespread personality we have today

Answer 10

extraversion/introversion- more energy vs draining to be around people
agreeable/disagreeable- warm cooperative vs putting yourself first critical
conscientiousness/casual- organized responsible vs organized perfectionist
emotionally stable/neurotic-
openness/closed- creative progressive vs safer stuff in life

Question 11

HEXACO

Answer 11

developed by Lee and Ashton, is lexical in many languages, and adds HONESTY/HUMILITY to the Big 5
honesty-humility
emotionality
extraversion
agreeableness
conscientiousness
openness