Personality Flashcards
(25 cards)
Type A
Time pressured, easily angered, competitive, ambitious, high risk for heart disease
Type B
Relaxed, easy-going
Id
unconscious instincts
Ego
Negotiate desires and limitations, mediator
Superego
Conscience
Repression
Block out of conscious
Denial
Not accepting truth
Displacement
Directing feelings to another object
Projection
Feelings towards others applied to others towards self
Reaction-Formation
Opposite feeling
Regression
Return to earlier comforting behavior
Rationalization
Come up w/ justification
Sublimation
Channel frustration to different constructive goal
Alfred Alder
Inferiority-failure; superiority-achievement, birth order
Carl Jung
Collective unconscious, complexes
Trait theories criticism
Fail to take in situation, labels only
Examples of trait theories
Eyesenck, Big 5, 16 personalities
Heretibility
Measure of the amount of variation in a trait given a population due to genetics
Somatotype theory
William Sheldon; Endomorph (fat), Mesomorph (muscular), Ectomorph (thin)
Criticism of behaviorist
Fail to recognize important of cognition
Reciprocal Determinism
Bandura; Person, Behavior, Environment combine to reinforce each other
Self-efficacyy
Own ability to get things done
Projective tests
Interpretations, Rorschach inkblot, TAT
Self-report tests
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)
