What is Personality? Flashcards
What is temperament?
Focuses on individual differences in behaviour and functioning
What 5 factors make up what personality is based on?
- Psychodynamic
- Biological
- Cognitive
- Humanistic
- Behavioural
Barnum effect
Intentionally vague statements that can be applicable to anyone (i.e astrology)
3 aspects of the psychological triad
Thinking, behaving, feeling
True or false, personality is not 100% consistent
True, personality is generally consistent across situations
Emotional stability and task performance
Sweet spot in middle, think Yerkes-Dodson
What is the goal of personality psychology?
Explain the whole person in their daily environment
What are the 5 main approaches to personality?
Trait, biological, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, learning
Interactionism
Effect of a personality variable may depend on the situation
Cumulative continuity
Trait build based on situations we’re in. Evocative genotype effect
Trait approach
- unconscious
- How do people differ psychologically
Biological approach
- Differences in body (hormones, neuroanatomy, genetics etc)
Psychoanalytic approach
Unconscious mind and internal conflicts
Phenomenological
Conscious experience of the world - direct contrast to psychoanalytical
What are the 2 sub categories of phenomenological?
Humanistic and cross cultural
Learning approach
What you have learned, what’s been reinforced
