Weeks 3 & 4 - Personality Flashcards
Enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, motivations, and behaviours. Relatively stable. Unique and adaptive.
Personality
Three ways we describe personality
Human nature- like all others
Individual and group differences- like some others
Individual uniqueness- like no others
Emotional, cognitive and behaviour tendencies which are unique to individuals
Traits
Eysenck’s super traits
Psychoticism – Low Psychoticism Extraversion – Introversion
Neuroticism – Emotional Stability
BAS & BIS
Behavioural approach systems (BAS) attuned to rewards
Behavioural inhibition system (BIS) attuned to punishment
The Five-Factor Model Traits
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Extroversion
Neuroticism
Includes characteristics such as creativity, spontaneity, flexible in ideas.
Openness to Experience
Capacity to understand another person’s cognitive and emotional experience
Empathy
Organised pattern of thought and perception about oneself that is consistent
Self-concept
Core aspect of being that is not impacted by external demands
True self
An aspect of self which emerges to gain positive regard from others
False self
View of what person should be like
Ideal self
Acceptance and support of a person regardless of what the person does
Positive regard
Desire to fulfil a range of needs that humans experience
Actualising tendency
Developed by Freud and includes conscious, preconscious, and unconscious elements
Topographic model
According to Freud ____________ is the ‘life force’ and includes pleasure seeking, sensuality, and desire for sexual intercourse
Libido
Freud’s psychosexual stages
Oral (0-18 months)
Anal (2-3 years)
Phallic (4-6 years)
Latency (7-11 years)
Genital (12+ years)
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Physiological needs
Safety needs
Love and belonging
Esteem
Self-actualization
According to Carl Rogers _____________ is an organized pattern of thought and perception about oneself
Self-concept
Aspect of the humanistic approach to personality that relates to a human’s desire to fulfill the full needs of human experience (e.g. all the hierarchy of needs)
Actualising tendency
According to Bandura ___________ is a person’s idea that they can perform the require actions to get the desired outcome
Self-efficacy expectancy
Every day, as soon as I arrive at the office, I turn on my computer, make coffee, greet those there, and check my email. I do this flawlessly each day and in that order. Which of the following best applies to my behaviour?
a. Behavioural invariance
b. Consistency
c. Repetitive response pattern
d. Indistinctiveness
b. Consistency
The first individual to present a comprehensive theory of personality.
Sigmund Freud
Jedda is imaginative, unconventional, curious, and artistic; Brandy is conventional, down-to-earth, and has limited interests. According to the Five
factor model of personality, it is likely that Jedda will score high on ______________ and Brandy will score low on the same trait.
openness
The limitations of cognitive-social approaches to personality is/are:
a. a tendency to underemphasise the emotional, motivational, and
irrational
b. a tendency to assume people consciously know what they think, feel
and want
c. a tendency to emphasise the rational side of life
d. all of the options listed
All of the options listed
Which of the following is NOT a pattern of infant attachment?
* a. Ambivalent
* b. Insecure
* c. Disorganised
* d. Secure
b. Insecure
Proximity plays an important role in attraction because:
a. it introduces important social dynamics such as status and encourages resolution
b. it allows people to address conformity and peer pressure in a family setting
c. it encourages reproductive success due to accessibility
d. it allows people to get to know one another and sets the stage for familiarity
d. it allows people to get to know one another and sets the stage for familiarity
A broad intrepreation of personality that is so broad it could apply to anyone, and so is accepted as fact.
Barnum effect
Theories of learning that emphasise the role of thought and social learning in behaviour
cognitive-social theories
Unconscious mental processes aimed at protecting a person from experiencing unpleasant emotions, especially anxiety.
defence mechanisms
A trait theory that asserts that personality consists of five traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism)
Five-factor model / Big-five personality traits
Setting goals, evaluating performance and adjusting behaviours to achieve goals in the context of ongoing feedback
self-regulation
an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
personality
The HOW of personality; the process of personality.
Personality Mechanisms
traits that improve an individual’s ability to survive and reproduce
adaptions
the organisation or patterning of thoughts, feelings and behaviours
Structure of Personality
the perspective that emphasizes the description and measurement of specific personality differences among individuals
trait perspective
assumption that the most crucial features of personality are embedded in our language
lexical approach
Using statistical analysis to determine key traits
statistical analysis approach traits
theoretical approach traits
Deriving traits from another theory of personality
Eysenck’s supertraits
psychoticism , extraversion-introversion, neuroticism
16 personality factor system. Key goal was to identify and measure the basic units of personality
Cattell’s Taxonomy