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Personality

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a pattern of behavior and thoughts

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Psychoanalytical

(Freud)

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personality is a struggle between the ID, Ego, and SuperEgo

  • ID - present at birth
    • always wants you to feel good
    • 100% pleasure
  • SuperEgo - develops as you gro
    • taught by parents and teachers - high moral standards
    • always wants you to do the “right thing”
  • Ego - develops first year of life
    • balance ID and SuperEgo
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Humanistic

(Carl Rogers, Maslow)

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just ask the person nicely to find out their personality

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Trait

(Gordon Allport)

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found all personalities and archived them

test people to fit them into a personality

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Social Cognitive

(Albert Bandura)

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learn personality by watching others

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Defense Mechanisms - 7

  1. Repression
  2. Regression
  3. Reaction Formation
  4. Projection
  5. Rationalization
  6. Displacement
  7. Sublimation
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  1. Repression - pushes down the thought so you don’t think about it
    1. Freudian Slips - fail in repression
      1. after a long time
  2. Regression - your retreat into an infantile way
    1. acting like a little kid to get your way
  3. Reaction Formation - switch to the opposite feelings
    1. Sarcasm
  4. Projection - you didguise your own feelings by putting them on someone else
  5. Rationalization - offers a self justifying explination
    1. excuses
  6. Displacement - redirecting anger to a different place
  7. Sublimation - do something good with anger or other emotion
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Freud’s Sexual Stages - 5

  1. oral
  2. anal
  3. phallic
  4. latency
  5. genital
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  1. oral - (0-1.5) - pleasure from sucking
    1. pacifier, thumbs
  2. anal - (1.5-3) - pleasure from creating, holding, and letting go of poop
  3. phallic - (3-6) - get pleasure from exploring your body
    1. oedipus complex - boy hates dad, loves mom
    2. electra complex - girl hates mom, loves dad
  4. latency - (6-puberty) - quiet period
  5. genital - (puberty) - pleasure from others
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Fixation

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too much or not enough of a stage

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Projective test

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ambiguous tests that tries to get into the unconscious

not scientific

Rorschach Test - ink blots - what do you see?

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MMPI

Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory

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inventories - 100’s of questions

10 different scalse

2x - one before and after treatment

emperically derived

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Androgny

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posess both masculine and feminine traits

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Unconditional Positive Regaurd

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total acceptane of others

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*Reciprocal Determinism

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our personality is shaped by interacting witht the environment

environment doesn’t just control you, but you think about your environment and act on it

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Control

Internal vs External

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  • Internal - control yourself
    • better health, less depression
    • self efficancy - “I can do it”
  • External - others control you
    • bad
    • *Learned Helplessness - “Anything I do won’t matter”