Unit 5 (Personality) Flashcards
Behavior, Unique, Consistent
Personality
stable, compels consistent action (Characteristics)
Traits
Primitive Instincts, Instant Gratification, No self-control or morals (The little devil on your shoulder that makes you do all those things that feel good, even if it’s wrong)
ID
Engine of the ID, Pursue pleasure, avoid pain (The principal on which ID operates
Pleasure Principle
Libido (Yuk City)
Instinct, Biological urges, affects behaviors, sexual desires
Superego
Conscience, Moral center, Self-control, Ego Ideal (Strive for perfection) (Makes us feel guilty when we do bad and good when we do good)
Ego
Mediator, Pleasures ID and superego, Reality Principle, Defer gratification because of reality (Prevents us from acting on every urge)
Conscious
Immediate Awareness
Preconscious
Memories you can retrieve
Unconscious
Not retrievable, Impacts behavior
Defense Mechanisms
Unconscious, protects you from bad feelings
Rationalization
Excuses (False, but plausible)
Repression
Bad thoughts, buried in unconscious
Displacement
Avoid source of bad feelings, less threatening substitute
Regression
Immature response
Identification
Find others in your situation
Reaction Formation
Act against your true feelings
Projection
Masking true feelings, attribute your feelings to someone else
Sublimation
Making that anger or urge energy into something else
Denial
“I don’t think so!”
Psycho sexual Development
Development of personality through the libido (Stages during childhood and first five years are critical)
Erogenous Zones
Physical source of libido gratification and frustration, conflict at each stage must be resolved
Fixation
stuck on one phase, creeps into adulthood
Freud’s Drives
Bad instincts, motivates behaviors
Eros
Life Instinct, Creativity and Productivity
Thanatos
Death instinct, self-destruction
Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist, student of freud
Personal unconscious
all information that is present within an individual’s mind, but not readily available to conscious recall
Collective Unconscious
Cultural, Inherited Memories, Shared experiences, Psychological predispositions
Archetypes
In the collective unconscious, universal ideal, universal recognition (Mother, Hero, Deity)
Alfred Adler
Individual Psychology, Striving for Superiority (Theory), Theory of Compensation, Resignation and Overcompensation
Individual Psychology
Human Differences
Striving For Superiority
Common human motivator, challenges
Theory of Compensation, Resignation and OVercompensation
Facing Disadvantages, compensation=overcoming, resignation = acceptance, Overcompensation = Too much time spent
Karen Horney
Culture and Society create personality, The basic anxiety, Anxiety and Neurosis and Womb Envy
Culture and Society create personality
women who feel inferior
The Basic Anxiety
Loneliness and isolation, bad parents vs dependence on your parents, conflicts creates anxiety
Anxiety and Neurosis
Neurosis comes from anxiety over unrealistic expectations of universal needs
Womb Envy
Response to penis envy, Men are jealous of a woman’s ability to nurture
Trait
Unique characteristics, continuous, describe reactions
Type
Collection of traits
Gordon Allport
Cardinal, Central and Secondary Traits
Cardinal Traits
Dominant trait, you are synonymous with that traits
Central Traits
Prominent Traits, Consistent and Common
Secondary Traits
Rarely Seen, Situation specific
Raymond Cattell
Factor Analysis, Cluster of Personality Traits, 16 Personality Factors
Factor Analysis
Factor analysis is a type of statistical procedure that is conducted to identify clusters or groups of related items (called factors) on a test
Clusters of personality traits
18,000 adjectives, 4,500 traits, 181 clusters
16 Personality Factors
Describes any personality
Hans Eysenck
Three Main Personality Factors, Personality and Genetics