What is Personality Flashcards
Name the theorist connected with each perspective, and it’s major strength and weakness:
Psychoanalytic
Theorist: Sigmund Freud
Strength: Attention to unconscious influences; importance of sexual drives even in nonsexual spheres
Weakness: Largely untestable concepts
Name the theorist connected with each perspective, and it’s major strength and weakness:
Neoanalytic
Theorist: Karen Horney
Strength: Emphasis on the self as it struggles to cope with emotions and drives on the inside and the demands of others on the outside.
Weakness: Still largely untestable concepts
Name the theorist connected with each perspective, and it’s major strength and weakness:
Biological
Theorist: Hans Eysenck
Strength: Focus on tendencies and limits imposed by biological inheritance; easily combined with most other approaches
Weakness: Strict biological approaches may ignore the influence of socialisation and context to some extent
Name the theorist connected with each perspective, and it’s major strength and weakness:
Behaviourist
Theorist: B. F. Skinner
Strength: Emphasis on a more scientific analysis of the learning experiences that shape personality
Weakness: Radical behaviorism ignored internal cognitive processes
Name the theorist connected with each perspective, and it’s major strength and weakness:
Cognitive
Theorist: George Kelly
Strength: Emphasis on active nature of human thought; uses modern knowledge from cognitive psychology
Weakness: Individual differences are often ignored, and it is assumed all internal processing is the same in different people
Name the theorist connected with each perspective, and it’s major strength and weakness:
Trait
Theorist: Gordon Allport
Strength: Focus on good individual assessment techniques, currently the dominant framework for personality assessment
Weakness: Limited capacity to explain how personality develops
Name the theorist connected with each perspective, and it’s major strength and weakness:
Humanistic
Theorist: Abraham Maslow
Strength: Appreciation of the spiritual nature of a person; emphasizes struggles for self-fulfillment and dignity
Weakness: Very culture dependent and somewhat limited ability to explain psychopathology (e.g. antisocial personality disorder)
Name the theorist connected with each perspective, and it’s major strength and weakness:
Interactionist
Theorist: Henry Murray
Strength: Understanding that we are different selves in different situations
Weakness: Relies on the assumptions of B = f (P,S)
Personality isn’t just an accumulation of bits and pieces; it has ___________
Organization
Personality doesn’t just lie there; it has _________ of some sort
Processes
Personality is a _______ concept, but it’s inextricably tied to the physical body
psychological
Personality is a ___________ that helps determine how the person relates to the world
causal force
Personality shows up in __________ patterns—recurrences and consistencies
individualized
Personality is displayed not just one way but _____ _____ —in behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.
many ways
