Personality Psychology 40S C. McMurray

Each dwarf has a distinct personality. An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Each dwarf has a distinct personality.

Personality Test World's Quickest Personality Test Remember to keep your eyes closed!

What Makes You Laugh? Studying what people find funny is just one way that psychologists gain insight into what makes us who we are…our personalities!

Traits A trait is an aspect of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable. We assume that a person has certain traits based on how the person behaves. Each personality is uniquely made up of multiple traits. Name 3 traits that make up your personality.

Examples of Traits: Honest Dependable Moody Impulsive

Temperament A part of our personality that is considered to be biologically based and not learned. Observable in infants from birth. Temperament: Our emotional excitability. (For example, calm, anxious, nervous) Personality combines temperament with experiences to shape life-long traits.

Assessing Traits Personality inventories are questionnaires (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors assessing several traits at once.

Profiling Your Personality Answer the following in your notebooks: 1. Who do you think you are? 2. What features of your personality are well known to your friends and family? 3. Which of your personality traits are known only to a few people? 4. Use the graphic organizer on the next slide to brainstorm a list of personality traits that make you unique. Share your answers at your table

My Personality Profile I am… I like to …

Extroverts and Introverts What is Extraversion? What is Introversion? Can you answer the following? Explain the difference between Extraverts and Introverts. Explain a common misconception about Introverts.

Watch the following videos and write down at least 3 differences between Extroverts and Introverts Video: The Power of Introverts Introverts Party Survival Guide

Journal Entry #3 Topic: Personality Extroverts vs Introverts Are you more extroverted or introverted? Explain why. What have you learned today about extroverts and introverts that can help you or others?

Personality Project Computer Lab Go to Website: http://mcmurrayvmc.weebly.com/ Go to Psych 40S and follow the instructions. This is a 20 mark assignment.

Testing Your Personality Type 1. The MBTI…Myers-Briggs Type Indicator What are the four dimensions that the MBTI measures? 2. The Big Five Explain the 5 Trait dimensions of the Big Five. 3. Explain the differences and similarities between the 2 personality tests.

Sigmund Freud

Psychodynamic Perspective Freud was the first psychologist to discuss the unconscious mind and its role in human behavior. Freud developed the first comprehensive theory of personality, which included the unconscious mind, psychosexual stages, and defense mechanisms. Psychodynamic approach tries to get 'inside the head‘ (unconscious mind) of individuals in order to make sense of their relationships, experiences and how they see the world. Culver Pictures Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Psychoanalysis A form of therapy aimed at making patients aware of their unconscious motives so that they can gain control over their behaviour. Free Association Method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. Freud believed that this was a window into the unconscious mind.

Free Association Test time death red mother fear home school friend 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. time death red mother fear home school friend love hate

Freud’s Psychosexual Stages Freud believed that all children had to go through similar experiences before they reached adulthood. He thought that any problem in adulthood could be traced back to something going wrong during one of these stages.

Frustration: breast feeding Frustration: toilet trailning Frustration:Oedipus conflict (boys) Electra conflict (girls)

The Dark Knight of Sigmund Freud

Model of Mind The mind is like an iceberg. It is mostly hidden, and below the surface lies the unconscious mind. The preconscious stores temporary memories.

Personality Structure Personality develops as a result of our efforts to resolve conflicts between our biological impulses (id) and social restraints (superego).

It tells us what we should and shouldn’t do. Id, Ego and Superego The Id unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operating on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification. The superego consists of the internalized ideals and standards for judgment that we develop as we interact with parents, peers and society. It tells us what we should and shouldn’t do. The ego functions as the “executive” and mediates the demands of the id and superego. Itmakes decisions after listening to the demands of the id and rules of the superego.

Defense Mechanisms The ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. 1. Repression removes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. 2. Regression leads an individual faced with anxiety to retreat to a more infant-like stage of life. Preview Question 2: How did Freud think people defended themselves against anxiety?

Defense Mechanisms 3. Reaction Formation reverses an unacceptable impulse, causing an anxious person to express the opposite. 4. Projection leads people to disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.

Defense Mechanisms 5. Rationalization replaces real, anxiety-provoking explanations with more comforting justifications for one’s actions. It makes mistakes seem reasonable. Displacement shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, redirecting anger toward a safer outlet. Denial lets an anxious person refuse to admit that something unpleasant is happening.

Guess My Defense Mechanism

Guess my Defense Mechanism! You will be given 2 defense mechanisms. As a group come up with a scenario for each and present it to the class.

The Neo-Freudians Jung believed in the collective unconscious, which contained a common reservoir of images derived from our species’ past. This is why many cultures share certain myths and images such as the mother being a symbol of nurturance. Archive of the History of American Psychology/ University of Akron Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Assessing Unconscious Processes Evaluating personality from an unconscious mind’s perspective would require a psychological instrument (projective tests) that would reveal the hidden unconscious mind. Preview Question 4: What are projective tests, and how are they used?

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Developed by Henry Murray, the TAT is a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes. Lew Merrim/ Photo Researcher, Inc.

Rorschach Inkblot Test The most widely used projective test uses a set of 10 inkblots and was designed by Hermann Rorschach. It seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots. Lew Merrim/ Photo Researcher, Inc.

Reflection What have you learned about your own personality either from: doing the MBTI or the Big Five understanding the difference between introverts and extroverts understanding Freud’s Model of the Mind Or Understanding defense mechanisms