Week 6 Flashcards
humorism
hippocrates an individual's personality is the result of the balance of four humors yellow bile black bile phlegm blood
yellow bile
personality type: choleric
personality characteristics: dominant and short tempered
black bile
pt: melancholic
pc: quiet and reflective
phlegm
pt: phlegmatic
pc: calm and agreeable
blood
pt: sanguine
pc: cheerful and energetic
psychodynamic approach
freud
conflicts among id, ego and superego structures and our efforts to find balance among what each of them ‘desires’ determines how we behave and approach the world
ego
take sensible actions that are balanced by input from id
id
strong basic impulses
superego
moral rules
psychosexual stages of development- freud
oral: birth-1
anal: 1-3
phallic: 3-6
latency: 6-puberty
genital: puberty-death
oral stage
mouth
anal stage
anus
child is now fully aware that they are a person in their own right and that their wishes can bring them into conflict with the demands of the outside world
phallic stage
genitals
child becomes aware of sexual differences
process of identification- adopts characteristics of same sex parent
latency stage
no further psychosexual development takes place
sexual impulses are repressed
sexual energy sublimated to other endeavours like school and friends
genital stage
begins in puberty
directed to interperson sexual pleasure rather than sexual pleasure that was during phallic stage
traits
enduring and relatively permanent personality characteristics that are distinguished along a trait continuum
Allport
organised traits into hierachy levels: cardinal, central, secondary
cardinal traits
dominate and shape individual behaviour
central traits
general characteristics
secondary traits
only present under specific circumstances
Cattell
condense trait list down to 16 dimensions of human personality traits
developed 16PF
Eysenck
people have specific personality dimensions personality largely governed by biology extraversion vs introversion neuroticism vs stability psychoticism vs socialisation
Eysenck- extraversion
caused by variability in cortical arousal
introverts have higher level in this area
5 factor personality model
Costa and McCrae
openness, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism
Social cognitive approach
emphasises conscious cognitive processes such as thoughts and beliefs and how these interact with our emotions and the environment to predict behaviour
Skinner
functional analysis
Walter Mischel
individual behaviour reliant on situational cues
Bandura
social learning theory
reciprocal determinism
reciprocal determinism:
cognitive processes, behaviour and context all interact, each factor simultaneously influencing and being influenced by others
Rotter
process of learning creates expectancies that guide future behaviour
locus of control
our beliefs about the power we have over our lives