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Personality Chapter 12
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What is Personality? Personality is an individual’s characteristic pattern of
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Personality: Then and Now
Why we have personality Humanistic approach (Jung) What personality is Basic dimensionality of personality Interaction between individuals and environments
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Psychoanalytic Perspective
Sigmund Freud Developed Developed idea of
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The Unconscious Mind Id
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Psychosexual Development
Oral (0-18 mo.) (18-36 mo.) Phallic ( ) Latency (6-Puberty) (Puberty +)
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Defense Mechanisms As a member of society, the individual must repress ‘ ’ urges
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Freud: Defense Mechanisms
Repression (has been shown to not exist) Reaction Formation
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Freud: Defense Mechanisms
Displacement Unconscious generation of self justifying explanations Diverts sexual/aggressive impulses towards another object/person Freudian slips Fetishes
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Freud One of the tests of this school of thought is the Thematic Apperception Test ( )
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Humanistic Perspective
Maslow
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The Trait Perspectives
These theories tend to look for stable and enduring Through factor analysis, psychologists have narrowed down possibilities to two distinct dimensions
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Eysenck’s Personality ‘Map’
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Biological Influences
Extraverts
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The Big Five The best approximation of how many distinct personality constructs exist currently rests at Set up as dichotomy between
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The Big Five
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The Big Five Openness to Experiences Extraversion Neuroticism
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Predictability of Behavior
Short answer: No
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The Social Cognitive Perspective
Proposed by Albert Bandura Focus on the interactions between individual and
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Notes:
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Personal Control Locus of Control Optimism vs Pessimism
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Locus of Control Who has the control in the situation? Internals:
External Control: : Me Internals: Able to delay gratification, more independent
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Learned Helplessness The that an animal or human learns when unable to avoid an event
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Optimisim vs Pessimism
Optimist Realist
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Exploring the Self Possible Selves
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Self Esteem The basic feeling that you have self worth
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Self Esteem and Culture
Several theories on ‘why’ we have it Sociometer People who experience prejudice do not suffer from lower self esteem
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Self Serving Bias The readiness to perceive the self as in almost any light which most people have
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