Personality Semester 1 Lecture 2 Flashcards
Explain Hollanders Model of Personality Structure 1971
A pyramid at the base is our REAL ME OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL CORE, IN the middle is our Typical Responses, and at the top our Role Related behaviour
Explain Psychological Core
Attitudes, values, interests, motives, beliefs, it is the real you, not who you want to be or who others want you to be or who you think you should be. The centre piece of your personality
What is a good analogy
Apple core or Chocolate ice cream
Explain the second tier of Hollanders Pyramid
Typical responses are how you generally respond to the world around you.
Explain Role Related Behaviour
How you act is based on how you perceive the social situation. Teacher, Parent, Pupil
Why should you be careful about typical responses.
Be careful not to assume people are introverted if they are quiet at a party this may just be their behaviour in certain environments.
Explain Role related behaviour with example
It is how you act in certain situations. So I am a pupil on this course but am a parent to my children and a teacher at work. I act differently in each situation
What is a Trait
Unit of Personality. Traits are stable across situations. The person is predisposed to act in certain ways. Typically act a certain way but not ALWAYS
Explain Eysencks view of personality
That personality is genetically determined. Developed the Eysenck Personality Inventory which has 16 independent personality traits which could describe each person. Measures 2 main areas of personality Introversion and Extraversion
What is the Big 5
Costa and McCrae 1992 describe personality by 5 dimensions. Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neurotism.
Why is personality relevant in Sport
To understand and motivate athletes we need to know them psychologically how they respond to different situations
Why is personality important to athletes
To understand their psychological core, their learning styles, and their strengths and how to improve their limitations
What are Jungs four functional types
Thinking and Feeling to enable us to decide and judge. Jung called these RATIONAL.
Sensation and Intuition enable us to gather information and perceive Jung called these Irrational.
Jungs General Attitude Types
Extraverted or INTROVERTED
Jungs 8 psychological types
Extraverted thinking, introverted thinking, extraverted feeling, extraverted feeling, Extraverted sensation, introverted sensation, extraverted intuition and introverted intuition.
