Chapter 11: Personality Flashcards
Defense Mechanisms (Repression, Denial, Suppression)
denial - refusal to accept, maladaptive
repression - burying a thought into your unconscious, you cannot remember anything (trauma or intentional)
suppression - effortful blocking, keeping ideas in the preconscious, don’t want to think about something provoking
Externalization Mechanisms (Displacement, Projection, Rationalization)
displacement - transferring negative emotions
projection - blaming others for your own flaws, accusing others of vices, insecure but won’t accept (denial)
rationalization - swapping truth for a more desirable excuse, gaslighting, and lies
Adaptive/Healthy Mechanisms (Regression, Anticipation, Humor, Sublimation)
regression - immature, overly upset by things
anticipation - anxious preparations, acknowledging an issue but letting it consume you
humor - self-depreciation, dark humor
sublimation - constructive, adaptive, turning something bad into something good
Historical Personality Types
Ayurveda - body type of air (VATA), earth (KAPHA), fire (PITTA)
Hippocrates Humours - personality caused by phlegm, bile, and blood in your body.
Jungian Personality Types
sensing - earth type (pragmatic, down to earth)
intuition - fire type (passion and illogical)
feeling - water type (emotions and connection)
thinking - air type (rational and logical)
Criticisms of MBTI Theory
not empirically supported, forced choices (must categorize/generalize yourself), ignores the magnitude
Cattell Theory
a statistical, 16-factor analysis in the 1960s-1990s - regarded as the best research of the time
The Big 5 Model
extraversion/introversion, agreeable/disagreeable, conscientiousness/casual, emotionally stable/neurotic, openness/closed
Hexaco Theory
developed by Lee and Ashton, is lexical in many languages, and adds HONESTY/HUMILITY to the Big 5
