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Chapter 11: Personality Flashcards

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Personality

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an individual’s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling

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prior events

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past events that has shaped an individual’s personality

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anticipated events

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future events that motivate the person to reveal particular personality characteristics

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self report

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a method in which people provide subjective information about their own thoughts, feelings, or behaviors typically via questionnaire or interview
- more reliable

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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a clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems

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projective techniques

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designed to reveal inner aspects of individuals’ personalities by analysis of their responses to a standard series of ambiguous stimuli
- issues with reliability and validity

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

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a projective technique in which respondents’ inner thoughts and feelings are believed to be revealed by analysis of their responses to a set of unstructured inkblots

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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a projective technique in which respondents’ underlying motives and concerns and the way they see the social world are believed to be revealed through analysis of the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people

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trait

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a relatively stable deposition to behave in a certain way

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highest level traits

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  • dimensions or factors of personality
  • the most general traits at higher levels
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hierarchical structure of traits

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traits organized in a hierarchy in which specific behavioral tendencies are associated with higher order trait

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The Big Five

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the traits of the five-factor personality model: OCEAN
- openness to experience
- conscientiousness
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- neuroticism

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do men and women have similar or different personalities?

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men and women seem to be far more similar in personality than they are different

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differences in men and women’s personalities

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men - assertive, self-esteem, sensation seeking
women - neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness

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brains of extraverts

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reticular formation not easily stimulated

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brains of introverts

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cortex is easily stimulated

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behavioral activation system (BAS)

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activates approach behavior in response to the anticipation of reward
- highly active in extraverts

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behavioral inhibition system (BIS)

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inhibits behavior in response to stimuli signaling punishment
- highly active in introverts

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psychodynamic approach

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personality ais formed by needs, strivings, and desires outside of awareness

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id

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the part of the mind containing the drives present at birth; it is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly our sexual and aggressive drives
- source of psychic energy that drives personality

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superego

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the mental system that reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly learned as parents exercise their authority

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ego

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try to satisfy primitive urgers from id but in ways that will not cause problems
- reality principal
- between superego and id

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defense mechanisms

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unconscious coping mechanisms that reduce the anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses

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types of defense mechanisms

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repression, rationalization, reaction formation, projection, regression, displacement, identification, sublimation

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Humanistic approaches
believe humans have an innate drive to fulfill their potential and have the desire to grow - self-actualization, congruence, and self concept
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Existentialist psychologists
focused on the individual as a responsible agent who is free to create and live his or her life while negotiating the issue of meaning and the reality of death
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self-actualizing tendency
the human motive toward realizing our inner potential
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existential approach
personality determined by an individual’s ongoing choices and decisions in the context of the realities of life and death
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social–cognitive approach
personality in terms of how a person thinks about the situations encountered in daily life and behaves in response to them - our behavior is a function of our environment and thoughts
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person–situation controversy
the question of whether behavior is caused more by personality or by situational factors - correlations between personality and behavior are low
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personal constructs
dimensions people use in making sense of their experiences
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outcome expectations
a person’s assumptions about the likely consequences of a future behavior
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locus of control
person’s tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external in the environment - internal: control your own destiny - external: determined by luck
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self-concept
a person’s explicit knowledge of his or her own behaviors, traits, and other personal characteristics
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self-narrative
a story that we tell about ourselves
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self-verification
the tendency to seek evidence to confirm the self-concept
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Self-esteem
the extent to which an individual likes, values, and accepts the self
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benefits of self esteem
social status, belonging, security
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self-serving bias
people tend to take credit for their successes but downplay responsibility for their failures
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Father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
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What two things is the superego composed of
ego-ideal: what we should be conscience: rule for how we should behave
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erogenous zones/Freud’s Psychosexual Stages
oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
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Oral stage fixation
0 to 12/18 months - oral aggression: verbally abusive, biting, sarcasm - oral indulgence: naive, optimistic, gullible
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Anal stage fixation
12/18 months to 3 years - anal retentive: hold onto shit, tight, emotionally closed off, neat orderly - anal expulsive: throw shit all over place, messy
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phallic stage
3 to 5/6 years - Oedipus complex - Electra complex
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latency stage
5/6 years to puberty the stage in which the primary focus is on the further development of intellectual, creative, interpersonal, and athletic skills
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genital stage
puberty forward - the time for the coming together of the mature adult personality with a capacity to love, work, and relate to others in a mutually satisfying and reciprocal manner
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repression
do not think about what makes us uncomfortable
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denial
does not exist
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projection
it's not us, it's the other person
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reaction formation
when our way of coping is doing the complete opposite of what we are feeling
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regression
we regress and act childish
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rationalization
make excuses and explain away our disappointments with shortcomings
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displacement
taking out feelings at a different target
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identification
act like someone who is more successful when we feel inferior
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sublimation
channel impulses into behaviors that are societally acceptable
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Karen Horney
- power envy not penis envy - basic anxiety
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Carl Jung
collective unconscious, archetypes, extroversion/introversion
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collective unconscious
unconscious shared across members of a society
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archetypes
a generic, idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated
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Alfred Adler
striving for superiority - we struggle with an inferiority complex
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how do we cope with basic anxiety
1. we turn against people 2. we move towards people 3. we isolate from people
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libido
physic energy, sexual drive
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Which psychologist were Humanistic Psychologists?
Maslow
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deficiency orientation
focus on satisfying needs
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growth orientation
being satisfied with things we do have
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Gordon Allport
Trait theory
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central trait
the 5 to 10 traits that describe ourselves
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secondary traits
minor traits
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cardinal trait
the single dominate trait that defines a person; explains all behavior - not everyone has a cardinal trait
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Raymond Cattel
used factor analysis to analyze Allport's 200 traits
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source traits
underlying fundamental dimensions of personality
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surface traits
superficial traits, based on combinations of source traits
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openness to experience
imaginative vs practical
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conscientiousness
organized/hard working vs disorganized/unreliable
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extraversion
outgoing/assertive vs passive/reserved
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agreeable
compassion vs hostility
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neuroticism
anxious/worry vs calm/easy going
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Hans Eysenck
3 dimensions to describe personality: extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism (impulsivity)
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Jeffrey Gray
BAS/BIS
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twins and traits
- MZ twins more similar than DZ twins - MZ twins reared apart just as similar as MZ twins reared together
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temperament
characteristic pattern of emotional reactivity
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Mischel
person-situation controversy
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Bandura
self system and reciprocal feedback loop
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reciprocal feedback
how we think about ourselves, situations, and our expectations affect our behavior
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Rotter
Locus of control, expectancies
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flow
a mental state of energized focus when engagement in tasks match one’s abilities
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when do humans recognize themselves in the mirror?
18 months
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Which personality instrument is also called the Big Five Inventory
NEO-PI
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What does the MMPI-2 measure?
wide range of psychological constructs: clinical problems, somatic problems, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and interpersonal problems
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functional autonomy
the motives for a certain behavior of a person in a certain situation are independent of their origins
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No matter how long and hard Oprah studies, she always feels she hasn't studied as much as she should have. A Freudian psychologist would suggest that Oprah shows signs of a
strong superego
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According to Freud, _____ largely governs the dynamics among the id, ego, and superego
anxiety
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Horney identifies three patterns in ways people use to deal with anxiety: moving towards others in a(n) __________ fashion, against others in a(n) __________ fashion, or away from others in a self-protective fashion
neurotic; aggressive

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