Personality Typeology models Flashcards
(27 cards)
Who Is the founder of analytical psychology?
Carl Jung
What did Carl Jung call the total personality?
the psyche
What is meant by life process energy?
opposing forces create energy that motivates our behaviour
What did Carl Jung believe about personality development?
that is occurs throughout life and endpoint is self realisation
What are the 4 main structures in the psyche?
Ego
Personal unconscious
Collective unconscious
archetypes
What is the Ego?
the self
unifying force in psyche
centre of consiousness
What is Personal Unconscious?
contains all personal experiences that have been blocked from awareness repressed ‘unacceptable’ material
How can materials in personal unconscious be brought to consciousness?
through psychoanalysis or hypnosis
What is Collective Unconscious?
consist of innate, inherited and universal instincts that go beyond personal experience
humans born with certain fears and instincts and these are stored here
What are Archetypes?
universal themes or symbols within collective unconscious
influences current experience
What did Jung give as an example of an archetype?
God
What are other common archetypes?
- the persona (mask adopted to deal with people)
- the shadow (repressed material)
- the anima (feminine element in male psyche)
- the animus (masculine element in female psyche)
- the self
What can archetypes influence?
our dreams
What 2 principles does the psyche operate on?
- principle of equivalence
- principle of entropy
What is the principle of equivalence?
as activity increases in one part of the psyche, it decreases in another part
What is the principle of entropy?
the drive to create balanced energies in the psyche
so we express more of ourselves in our behaviour
What 2 personality types were proposed?
extraversion (outgoing)
introversion (hesitant and reflective)
What 4 approaches can be used to see differences been introverts and extroverts?
thinking vs feeling
intuition vs sensation
What test was developed to help measure Jungian personality types?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
developed in WW11
What 2 other functions were added to Jungs original 4 approaches?
judging and perceiving
How many personality types were created?
16 personality types
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
an introspective self report questionnaire
What 4 pairs of opposites are used in scale?
extraversion vs introversion
sensing vs intuition
thinking vs feeling
judging vs feeling
Ihm et al (2017) - students with judging type…
students with judging type achieved better academic performance
