Chapter 3 Flashcards
(27 cards)
How many levels of personality structure are there?
Three
What are the levels of personality structure?
A psychological core, typical responses, and role-related behavior
Personality is the what of the characteristics that make a person unique?
Sum
What is the most basic level and deepest component to personality?
The psychological core
What does the psychological core include?
Attitudes, values, interests, motives, beliefs about yourself, and self worth
What represents the “real you,” not who you want people to think you are?
Your psychological core
Typical responses are what?
Ways we learn to adjust or usually respond to the environment and are often indicators of your psychological core
What is the most changeable aspect of personality?
Role related behavior
Define psychological core
The most basic and deepest component of personality that involves attitudes and values, interests and motives, and beliefs about self and self worth
Define typical responses
The ways you learn to adjust to the environment or how you usually respond to the world around you
Define role-related behavior
The most changeable aspect of personality that refers to how you act based on what you perceive your social situation to be
Define psychodynamic approach
Focusing on understanding the person as a whole rather than identifying isolated traits or dispositions and emphasizing unconscious determinants of behavior (id, instinctive drives) and how these conflict with more conscious aspects of personality (superego: one’s moral conscious, and ego: the conscious of personality)
Define trait approach
Belief that the fundamental units of personality, its traits, are relatively stable and that the causes of behavior reside in the person
Define situation approach
Idea that behavior is determined largely by the situation or environment
Define maladaptive, or unhealthy, perfectionism
A focus on high standards accompanied by a concern over mistakes and evaluation by others
Define adaptive, or healthy, perfectionism
A focus on high standards but not excessively worrying about making mistakes or about how others evaluate one’s performance
Define interactional approach
Idea that the situation and the person are co-determinants of behavior, that is they are variables that together determine behavior
Define phenomenological approach
Behavior is determined by accounting for both situations and personal characteristics with an emphasis placed on an individual’s subjective experiences and personal views of the world and themselves
Define integrative, or biopsychosocial approach
Emphasis is placed on understanding the whole person by considering the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors
Define situation specific measures
Measures that consider both the personality of the participant and the specific situation (interactional approach)
Define intraindividual approach
Compares how an individual performs on different occasions or in different situations rather than how an individual performs in relation to others
Define projective tests
A psychological test in which words, images, or situations measure more subconscious and deeper aspects of personality by asking the person to project their feelings and thoughts about the materials
Define mental health model
Positive mental health, as assessed by a certain pattern of Profile of Mood States (POMS), is directly related to athletic success and high levels of performance
Define iceberg profile
Profile that reflects positive mental health, specifically, with vigor above the mean of the population, and tension, depression, anger, fatigue, and confusion below the mean of the population
