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PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Getting Started Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Aspects of Structural Area Models The most general of structural models They divide personality according to the processes they carry out They also organize traits –According to which area of personality the trait describes (e.g., emotionality, cognition) –Not according to correlational criteria

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach The Trilogy (Quaternity?) of Mind A. Motivation B.Emotion C.Cognition D.(Maybe…) Consciousness

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Trilogy of Mind Cognition: Thoughts and reasoning about information Emotion: Feelings such as anger and happiness that communicate about relationships Motivation: Urges and desires that direct the individual Cognition EmotionMotivation

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach A Brain to Match? The Triune Brain –MacLean –Evolutionary Focus

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach A Brain to Match? Reptilian Brain –Reproduction –Territoriality –Hunting for food –Defense Thalamus Cerebellum Hypothalamus Amygdala Pons

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach A Brain to Match? Thalamus Cerebellum Hypothalamus Amygdala Pons Old Mammalian Brain –Caregiving for the young –Emotions –Social Relationships Hippocampus Corpus Callosum

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach A Brain to Match? Thalamus Cerebellum Hypothalamus Amygdala Pons Hippocampus Corpus Collosem New Mammalian Brain –Language –Higher cognitive functions Cerebral Cortex

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach The Systems Set Executive Consciousness: Self awareness and self- control Energy Lattice: Motives and emotions Knowledge Works: Mental models and intelligence Role Player: Social roles and how to carry them out.

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach The full systems set diagram Are There More General Approaches to Structure?

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Organizing Traits Method: –Select 70 commonly discussed traits from glossaries of personality textbooks –Place definitions after each trait –9 raters (graduate students) classify traits according to personality area

PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT… Are There More General Approaches to Structure? © Copyright 2006 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Testing the Systems Set Executive Consciousness Absorption, will-power, self-control, private-self- consciousness, self-awareness, self-esteem, etc. Role Player Machiavellianism, sincere-insincere, public self- consciousness, entertaining-dull, leader-follower, friendliness-hostility, extroversion- introversion, shyness, athletic- sedentary, graceful-clumsy Knowledge Works Verbal intelligence, perceptual-organizational intelligence, creativity, internal-external locus of control, emotional intelligence, etc. Energy Lattice Interest, curiosity, neuroticism, guilt-proneness, need for achievement, etc.

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