Chapter 14 - Personality Flashcards
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Personality
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• Distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person’s response to situations
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Personality components
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• Identity - you are like no one else
• Internal Causes -it’s inside you, not in the environment
• Organized -the pattern ‘fits together’, has
meaning
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Things that attribute to personality
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- components of indentity
- perceived internal cause
- perceived organization and strucure
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Psychodynamic theorists look for the causes of behaviour in a dynamic interplay of
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inner forces that often conflict with one another
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
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- Unconscious part of mind
- Powerful influence on behaviour
- E.g., conversion hysteria
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Psychic energy
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- Generated by instinctual drives
* Discharged directly or indirectly
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Mental events
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- Conscious: aware
- Preconscious: unaware but can be recalled
- Unconscious: wishes, impulses, etc. we are unaware of
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The Id
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- Exists totally within the unconscious mind
- It is the innermost core of the personality
- The only structure present at birth
- The source of all psychic energy
- No direct contact with reality and functions in a totally irrational manner
- pleasure principle
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Pleasure principle
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• Seeks immediate gratification or release
• Regardless of rational considerations and
environmental realities
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The Ego
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- Functions primarily at a conscious level
- Functions to keep impulses of id in control
- Delays gratification
- Imparts self-control
- It operates according to the reality principle (tests reality to decide when and under what conditions the id can safely discharge its impulses & satisfy its needs)
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The Superego
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• The last personality structure to develop
• The moral arm of the personality
• Controls impulses of id with external control • According to Freud, the superego developed by the age of four or five
- operates according to moralistic goals
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Ego cannot always control id = conflict
In the form of
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• Anxiety when impulses of id threaten to get out of control
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Defence mechanisms
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- repression
- denial
- displacement
- intellectualizaiton
- projection
- rationalization
- reaction formation (psychic E release in exaggerated expression of opposite behaviour)
- sublimation
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Psychosexual Development
Series of stages:
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- Focuses on specific pleasure-sensitive areas of body
* Adult personality is function of progressing through theses stages, if not could cause fixation
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Fixation
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• Arrested development where instincts focused on particular area
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Research on Psychoanalytic Theory
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- Difficult to test: genuine results? Or lies
- Unconscious processes: Nonconscious processes have been demonstrated
Psychosexual stages:
• Concept of childhood sexuality rejected
• Issue = importance of early experiences & emotional attachment
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Neoanalytic Approaches
• Adler
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- Motivated by social interest
- Place social welfare above personal interests
- Striving for superiority
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• Motivated by social interest
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- Place social welfare above personal interests
* Striving for superiority
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Object relation theorists
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• Focus = mental representations people form of themselves
•Become ‘working models’ to interpret social
interactions
• Can generate self-fulfilling prophecies
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Object relation theorist can effect what’s
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Attachment style in adult relationships
Secure vs avoidant vs anxious-ambivalent
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Neoanalysts were psychoanalysts who
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disagreed with certain aspects of Freud’s thinking and developed their own theories.
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Humanistic Approach
• Reaction to Freud
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• Emphasis on role of conscious, creative potential, self-actualization
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Motivations for behaviours
Maslow & Rogers
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• Innate tendency towards self - actualization
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Abraham Maslow
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• Considered self-actualization to be the ultimate human need and the highest expression of human nature
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George Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory
•Kelly’s primary interest was how people construct reality
- personal contructs
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Personal constructs
* Are cognitive categories which sort the people and events in their lives
* The primary basis for individual differences in personality
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Carl Rogers Self Theory
* Central concept = self-concept
* Organized , consistent set of perceptions & beliefs about oneself
* Once established - tendency to maintain it
- self consistency
- congruence
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Self-consistency
•Consistency among ‘self-perceptions’
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Congruence
• Consistency between self perceptions & experience
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Psychological Adjustment
* Level of adjustment: Degree of congruence between self-concept & experience
* Maladjustment: Deny or distort reality to be consistent with self- concept
* Healthy adjustment: Experiences are easily incorporated into self-concept
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High Self-esteem
* Fewer interpersonal problems
* More capable of forming loving relationships
* Achieve at higher level
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Poor Self-esteem
• Anxiety, depression, poor social relationships, underachievement
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Unstable / unrealistically high self-esteem
* More problematic than low self-esteem
| * May react aggressively when self-esteem threatened
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Pursuit of self-esteem
* Enhanced self-esteem vs. mastery of the goal
| * Failure is problematic if goal is enhanced self-esteem
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Fostering self-esteem
* Unconditional acceptance and love
* Clear guidelines for behaviour
* Reinforcement of compliance
* Freedom to make decisions and express opinions within guidelines
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Need for Positive Regard
• Innate need for acceptance, sympathy, love
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Unconditional Positive Regard
• Independent of behaviour
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Conditional Positive Regard
* Dependent upon behaviour
| * Creates ‘conditions of worth’
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Positive self-regard
• Experience of being understood & valued gives us freedom to grow
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Lack of unconditional positive regard
•Creates ‘conditions of worth’
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Fully functioning persons
• Self-determined, sense of inner freedom, accept inner & outer experiences as they are
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Self-verification
* Motivated to confirm self-concept
* Better recall for more consistent self-descriptions
* Seek out self-confirming relationships
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Self-enhancement
* Strong tendency to gain & preserve positive self-image
* Contributes to psychological well-being
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Individualistic culture have stronger_________ achievement and collectivist have stronger __________ achievement
personal. Social
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Gender schemas
Males
• Achievement, strength, self sufficiency
• Individualistic
* Females
* Helpfulness, kindness, self competencies
* Collectivist
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Evaluating Humanistic Theories
* Too much reliance on self-reports • Not scientific?
* How define self-actualization tendency?
* Contribution to psychotherapy approaches
* Characteristics of therapist
* Discrepancies between perceived self & ideal self
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Factor analysis
* Find correlations among behaviours
* Reflect basic dimension or trait
* Each dimension reflects a ‘continuum’ of behaviour
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Eysenck original theory
| • Only 2 dimensions needed
1. Introversion-Extraversion
| 2. Stability-Instability
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The Five Factor Model
| • Universally found
1. Openness
2. Conscientiousness
3. Extraversion
4. Agreeableness
5. Neuroticism
• Variations on factors create diversity in personalities
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5 Factor Model & Eysenck’s 2 factor Model Good at predicting behaviour
across broad range
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Cattel’s 16 Factors Predict behaviour more
specifically
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Brains of extreme introverts =
over-aroused
• Minimize stimulation
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Brains of extreme extroverts =
under-aroused
• Seek to maximize stimulation
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Stability - instability show differences in
autonomic nervous system arousal
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Novelty seeking
• Related to levels of dopamine
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Traits & Behaviour Show
stability & change
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Traits
| • Some, e.g., Introversion-extroversion, emotionality, activity level tend to remain
stable over time
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Certain thought patterns remain stable
• E.g., optimism-pessimism
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Behaviour Shows little
stability across situations
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Predicting behaviour from personality traits?
• Difficult because of 3 factors:
1. Traits interact with other traits
2. ‘Importance’ of trait influences consistency
3. Variation in ‘self-monitoring’
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Self-monitors
* High = attentive to situational cues
* Low = attentive to internal beliefs
* Extreme = very differently in different situations
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Evaluating Trait Approach
| • Pros
Focused attention on value of identifying & measuring personality dispositions
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Evaluating Trait Approach
Cons
* ‘Describes’ structure of personality & individual differences
* Cannot explain underlying psychological mechanisms
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Albert Bandura
Behaviour not explained by ‘external’ or ‘internal’ factors alone
- reciprocal determinism
- social learning and self-efficacy:
Beliefs about ability to perform task based on intention to set and reach goals
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Reciprocal Determinism
* Individual & behaviour & environment are linked
| * Influential pattern of 2-way causal links
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Reciprocal determine contains
Environment, person, behaviour, all interacting
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Julian Rotter: Expectancy, Reinforcement Value, & Locus of Control
• Expectancy & Reinforcement
- Behaviour governed by 2 factors (Rotter)
• Expectancy
- Likelihood of consequences given behaviour
• Reinforcement
- How much we desire or dread consequences
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Social Cognitive Theories
Locus of Control
• Generalized expectancy
• Applies to many aspects of world view
Internal and external
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Internal locus
• Events under personal control
* Self-determined
* Seek out information; becoming involved
* Sense of personal effectiveness
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External locus
• Luck, chance, powerful others
* Less resistant to social pressures
* Give into ‘powerful’ others
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What influences self-efficacy?
- performance experiences (previous succes and failures)
- observational learning (see behaviour and consequences similar to models)
- emotional arousal (arousal = enthusiasm)
- verbal persuasion (encouraging messages revised form others)
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Self-Efficacy & Goal Setting
| • Want to know what to do? Then set:
* Specific & measurable goals
* Performance not outcome goals
* Difficult but realistic goals
* Positive not negative goals
* Short-range & long-range goals
* Definite time spans for achievement
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Consistency Paradox
Level of consistency in behaviour is low
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Cognitive Affective Personality System (CAPS)
Interplay between personality characteristics and situation
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Evaluating Social Cognitive Theories
* Advanced understanding of internal & external factors
* Puts insights from other perspectives into cognitive- behavioural concepts
* Explains inconsistency of behaviour as a stable structure which reacts differently to particular situations
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Personality Assessment through Interviews
* Structured set of standardized questions
| * Note other behaviours - appearance, speech patterns etc.
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Drawbacks to interviews
* Characteristics of interviewer can affect answers
| * Dependence on co-operation, honesty of interviewee
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Behavioural Assessment
* Need explicit coding system
* Aim is not solely to ‘describe’ behaviour
* Specific behaviour, frequency, specific situations, under what conditions
- interjudge reliability
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Interjudge reliability
* High level of agreement
| * among observers
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Remote behavioural sampling
* Sample behaviour at random times over period of days, weeks etc.
* Allows for data collection of behaviour that may otherwise not be revealed
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Personality Scales
* Objective measures
| * Use standard questions & agreed upon scoring key
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Pros and cons to personality scales
Advantage:
• Collect large amount of data
Disadvantages:
• Validity of answers (truthfully answered?)
• Validity scales
•Used to detect a ‘pattern’ in responses
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Personality scales items: 2 ways to develop
Rational and empirical
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Rational
* Based on conception of trait
* Item seems ‘relevant’ to the trait
* NEO-PI (Costa & McCrae)
* Big 5 personality traits
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Empirical
* Answered by differing groups
| * Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory revised = MMPI-2
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MMPI-2
* 10 clinical scales
* 3 validity scales
* Configuration pattern of scales
* Measure personality deviations
* Aspects of personality in people who do not display disorders
* Screening device in industrial, military settings
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Jeffrey Dahmer’s MMPI
| profile
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• Convicted mass murderer
• Reflects his severe psychological disturbance
• Is consistent with his pattern
of unrestrained and vicious
victimization of others
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Projective tests
* Presented with ambiguous stimulus
* Interpretation = ‘projection’ of inner needs, feelings, ways of viewing the world
- thematic apperception test
- inkblots
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Rorschach Inkblots
• 10 inkblots
• Categorized according to ‘types’ of objects seen
• Different examiners - different
interpretations?
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Thematic Apperception Test
* Ambiguous illustrations/ photos
* Asked to ‘tell a story’
* ‘themes’ are analyzed
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Personality Theory Provides
framework
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Personality assessment proves
‘Tools’
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Who uses what tools provided by assessments ?
* Psychodynamic = projective techniques
* Humanistic = self-report measures
* Social-cognitive = behavioural assessments
* Biological = physiological measurements
* Trait theorists = inventories (MMPI, NEO-PI)
