Chapter 6 Flashcards
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Personality
The unique collection of attitudes, emotions, thoughts, habits, impulses, and behaviors that define how a person typically behaves across situations
Psychoanalytic Approach
Personality is a product of driving forces at conflict with each other and sometimes the unconscious.
Trait Approach
Personality can be described using traits
Social Cognitive Approach
Personality is a product of one’s thoughts and social experiences.
Humanistic Approach
Personality is a product of individual personal choice and free will, with a built-in drive to achieve their maximum potential.
Conscious Level
thoughts, perceptions, and explanations of behaviors of which we are aware.
Preconscious Level
memories that you are not aware of right now, but could easily remember,
Unconscious Level
thoughts, impulses, memories and behaviors outside of awareness.
Id
energy forces we are born with that desires things that makes us feel pleasure or gratification
Ego
energy forces that negotiates between the id and what’s acceptable in society
Superego
moral consciousness understanding of right and wrong
Oral
0-18 months
Anal
18 months -3 years ( anal region)
Phallic
3-6 years (penis for boys and clitoris for girls)
Latency
6-puberty ( focus on play and school)
Genital
Puberty-Adult ( sexual interest)
Fixation
To much or too little satisfaction at a stage results
Results in an immature adult personality
fixation
Oral fixation-
stuck in the oral stage ex: nail biting
Anal-Retentiveness
stuck in the anal stage Ex: overly neat
Anal-Expulsiveness
stuck in the anal stage Ex: overly sloppy
Neo-Freudians
agreed with Freud’s beliefs that unconscious conflicts influences personality development, but disagree that sex and aggression are the main motivating drives
