Personality

Question 1

An individual’s unique and relatively stable patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings

Answer 1

Peronsonality

Question 2

What are the theoretical approaches that help to explain how our personality develops?

Answer 2

-Psychoanalytic
-Trait

Question 3

A method developed by Freud in which the attempt is to bring repressed unconscious material into the consciousness

Answer 3

Psychoanalysis

Question 4

One’s current thoughts; what ever is being thought or experienced in the present moment

Answer 4

Conscious level

Question 5

Contains memories not currently in use but can be accessed in the need arises.
-Memory bank
-The archive

Answer 5

Preconscious level

Question 6

Forms the bulk of the mind; are the thoughts, desires, and impulses that on is unaware of

Answer 6

Unconscious level

Question 7

Portion of personality concerned with immediate gratification of basic needs.
-Operates using pleasure principle (if it feels good, do it)
-Occurs in the unconscious level

Answer 7

Id

Question 8

Portion of personality concerned with managing the impulses with reality.
-Operates using reality principle (consider the consequences)
-Occurs partially on conscious and preconscious levels

Answer 8

Ego

Question 9

Portion of personality representing the conscience.
-Occurs on all three levels

Answer 9

Superego

Question 10

An innate sequence of stages through which all humans pass. At each stage, pleasure is focused on a different region of the body.
-These stages determine our overall personality

Answer 10

Psychosexual stages of development

Question 11

The psychic energy that powers all mental activity. An instinctual for residing in the id that focuses on pleasure

Answer 11

Libido

Question 12

Excessive investment of psychic energy resulting in various psychological complexes/ disorders

Answer 12

Fixation

Question 13

Pleasure is centered around the mouth through oral activities.
-Feeding, thumb sucking, and babbling
-birth - 2 years

Answer 13

Oral stage

Question 14

1. Reduce tension through oral activity
   -Smokers or overeaters
2. hostile and verbally abusive to others
   -Sarcastic people and bullies

Answer 14

1. Oral repetitive personality
2. Oral aggressive personality

Question 15

Pleasure is centered around elimination
-Child learns to respond to the demands of society; exerting bladder and bowel control
- 2 - 4 years

Answer 15

Anal stage

Question 16

1. Stingy, favor order and tidiness
   -Stubborn and perfectionists
2. Lack of self control
   -Generally messy and careless

Answer 16

1. Anal retentive personality
2. Anal expulsive personality

Question 17

Pleasure source is the genitals
-child learns to recognize the difference between males and females
- 4 - 7 years

Answer 17

Phallic stage

Question 18

1. Boys fear that if they anger their father’s he will cut off their penis; Think they need to eliminate the father
2. Girls are envious that they do not have a penis, girls want to get rid of mother

Answer 18

1. Oedipus complex (castration anxiety)
2. Electra complex (penis envy)

Question 19

Pleasure is focused on developing new skill, knowledge, socializing
-Libido is repressed, no conflict
- 7 - 12 years

Answer 19

Latency stage

Question 20

Pleasure is sexual gratification
-Repressed need awakened and focuses on others instead of self
-12 years and up
-Adult capacity to combine lust and affection

Answer 20

Genital stage

Question 21

Personality theorists who accept portions of Freud’s theory, but reject or modify portions

Answer 21

Neo-freudian

Question 22

Shared Freud’s view of the importance of the unconscious but saw an area Freud missed
-Analytic

Answer 22

Carl Jung

Question 23

Portion of personality that all humans share
-Experiences are part of our biological heredity that humans have acquired since we originated

Answer 23

Collective unconsiousness

Question 24

The inherited images our collective unconsciousness holds that shapes our perception of the world

Answer 24

Archtype

Question 25

Theories on personality that focus on identifying the key dimensions along which people differ

Answer 25

Trait approach

Question 26

Specific dimensions along which people differ in consistent, stable, and unique ways. -Both over time and across situation which is the reason they are measurable

Answer 26

Personality trait

Question 27

Two key focuses of personality traits: 1. Evaluation of the person not just description through their mental and moral qualities 2.0 The core of an individual's disposition that is apparent from infancy -Seeming to be their nature

Answer 27

1. Character 2. Temperment

Question 28

Establishes over 4500 different traits people display and classified them in to 3 categories

Answer 28

Allport's trait theory

Question 29

Trait that dominates an individual's entire personality, typically rare since many traits are working at once -"Christ like"

Answer 29

Cardinal traits

Question 30

Basic building blocks of an individual's personality -"pessimistic, funny"

Answer 30

Central traits

Question 31

Traits that are only present under certain conditions and are more superficial qualities -Food preference, religious preference

Answer 31

Secondary traits

Question 32

McCrae et al theory of personality dimensions in which an individual's personality is places into themes

Answer 32

Big Five Factors

Question 33

What makes up the big five factor

Answer 33

O: openness C: conscientious E: extraversion A: agreeableness N: neuroticism