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Define Personality

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A characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations

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Define trait

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a characteristic of an individual, describing a habitual way of behaving, thinking, or feeling

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Idiographic approach:

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Creating detailed descriptions of a specific person’s unique personality characteristics in an attempt to understand that person better

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What is a Nomothetic approach?

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Examining personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure

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What is the main legacy from Freud?

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He started psychotherapy (talk therapy) and a large amount of mental processes being subconcious

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What is the unconscious mind?

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A vast and powerful but inaccessible part of your consciousness, operating without your
conscious endorsement or will to influence and guide your behaviors

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What is the conscious mind?

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Your current awareness, containing everything you are aware of right now

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What is the Id?

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Represents a collection of basic biological drives, including those directed toward sex and aggression

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What is Libido?

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Operates on the pleasure principle: do what feels good

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What is the superego?

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Comprised of our values and moral standards

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What is the ego?

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The decision maker, frequently under tension,
trying to reconcile the opposing urges of the idand superego

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What did Freud believe about personality and anxiety?

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“Personality” emerges from the interplay of the id, superego, and ego
-Anxiety is produced when the components are imbalanced (e.g., when the id and superego are in conflict)

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According to Freud, what are defense mechanisms?

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Unconscious strategies the The ego uses to keep the Id’s impulses out of conscious awareness and balance the competing demands of pleasure, reality, and morality

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Define Denial

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when people refuse to admit something unpleasant is happening, that they have a
problem, or that they are feeling a forbidden emotion (defense mechansim)

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What is reaction formation?

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Behaving in a way that is exactly the opposite
of one’s true feelings (defense mechanism)
eg. Expressing feelings of purity when experiencing unconscious feelings about sex

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What is rationalization?

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creating false but plausible excuses to justify
unacceptable feelings or behaviors

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Define repression

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Keeping distressing desires or wishes from
conscious awareness by burying it in the unconscious

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What is projection?

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seeing one’s own traits in other people, especially if seeing that threatening trait in
others helps the individual to avoid recognizing it in their self

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What is displacement?

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Altering the target of one’s urges
* e.g. Angry at boss: come home and yell at children instead

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What is identification?

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Alleviate concerns about self-worth by unconsciously assuming the characteristics of
another person
* Can be good too!
* E.g., identification with one’s parents
results in the formation of the
superego

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What is sublimation?

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Transforming unacceptable impulses into
socially acceptable or even pro-social alternatives. (like turning aggression into playing sports)

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What is the purpose of defense mechanism?

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protect self esteem

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What is a realistic idea of projection?

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Attributing qualities you (or fear you) possess to others

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What is the false consensus effect?

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Overestimating how many people share your
traits, opinions, preferences, and motivations
similar to projection

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More specifically Freud thinks personality comes from...
* Interplay of Id/Ego/Superego * Contents of Id/Ego/Superego * Which defense mechanisms your ego employs
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How did personality develop according to Freud?
many of the problems that people have with their personalities (e.g., the defense mechanisms they particularly like to employ) are due to unresolved issues from growing up
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At each developmental stage, the ________ manifests in particular areas of the body, characterized by certain ____________ conflicts that need to be resolved
libido; psychological
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What are Freud's psychosexual stages?
oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
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What are the three characteristics of each psychosexual stage?
Physical, Psychological, and an adult character type
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What is the physical focus?
where the child’s energy is concentrated and their gratification obtained
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What is the psychological theme in the psychosexual stages?
this is related to both the physical focus and the demands being made on the child by the outside world as he/she develops
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What is the adult character type?
in the first three stages this adult character type is related to being fixated or stuck at that stage
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Define fixation in Freuds Psychosexual theory.
a pre-occupation with obtaining the pleasure associated with a particular stage * Part of your psychological functioning doesn’t advance past that stage * Results in rigid personality types or unhealthy habits
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when does the oral stage take place?
0-18 months
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aspects of the oral stage
Physical pleasure focus: Actions of the mouth—Sucking, chewing, swallowing * Psychological theme: basic dependence & trust * “Oral character”
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What are the two types of Oral Character?
* Oral Sadistic: envy (wanting more), manipulation of others (using the mouth to hurt), and suspiciousness * Oral Dependent: dependence, indulgence, entitlement, immaturity
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When does the anal stage take place?
18-36 months
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Aspects of anal stage
* Physical: Bowel elimination & control * Psychological: sense of control & competence
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What are the two types of Anal character?
Anal retentive: Creates rigidity, inflexibility, stinginess: An obsession with cleanliness, order and control Anal Expulsive: Problem with “letting it out” - sloppiness and/or a general disregard for order
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When does the Phallic stage take place?
3-6 years of age
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What are the physical and psychological aspects of the phallic stage?
Physical: curiosity about one’s own body and others bodies (parents, siblings peers) Psychological: Stage is necessary for moral identity and superego formation—identification with parents; internalization of parents values
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What does the phallic stage create?
Penis envy: girls wonder why they don't have a penis Castration anxiety: Boys wonder how girls lost their penis -oedipus complex?
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What is the oedipus complex?
Erotic attachment to the parent of opposite sex and feel some hostility to same-sex parent
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Why is castration anxiety such a big part of the oedipus complex?
-Boys are distressed that their mother doesn’t have a penis and assume that their father cut it off -They fear that their father will cut off their penis too
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When does the oedipus complex end
When the child gives up on their opposite sex parent and identifies with the same sex parent
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How does phallic character show itself in men
In men, someone who is vain or over-ambitious – they continue to be too focused on their self and self-pleasure
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How does phallic character show itself in women
In women, someone who is overly dominant over men or unusually seductive – argued to be rooted in continued penis envy
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What is the latent period?
The sexual and aggressive drives are less active and there is little in the way of psychosexual conflict. People associate with their own sex
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When does the latent period take place?
6-puberty
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When does the genital period take place?
puberty onward
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What is the physical focus of the genital period?
Physical focus is on the genitals and partnered intercourse
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What is the psychological focus of the genital period?
maturity and the creation of life (intimacy)
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The genital personality is not fixated at an earlier stage: This is the person who has worked it all out. True or false?
True!
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What are the critisms of Freud's psychosexual theory?
* Lack of testability (not falsifiable) * Drawing universal principles from the experiences of a few atypical patients * Basing theories of personality development on retrospective accounts of adults * Too much emphasis on parental influence? * Sexist (women = penis envy)
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What is Phrenology
Franz Joseph Gall thought bumps on the head = IQ *Gall focused his attention upon the detailed configuration of the human head
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What is the basis of the myers briggs test?
Based on Carl Jung’s writings: he argued that people have preferences about how they use their mental capacities. Took his 4 type categories and broke them down into pieces
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What are the four "type categories" used by Carl Jung?
* Introverts vs. Extroverts * Perceivers vs. Sensors * Thinkers vs. Feelers * People who prefer judging or intuition
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What are the problems with the Myers briggs test?
* Lack of reliability * Lack of validity * Traits do not fall into categories * Incomplete description of personality
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What is the point the myers briggs test is missing when compared to the big five personality traits?
Neuroticsm
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What is the Forer/Barnum effect?
The tendency to see ourselves in vague or general statements (results are usually positive)
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How to avoid the barnum effect?
*Beware of all-purpose descriptions that could apply to anyone *Beware of your own selective perceptions *Resist flattery and emotional reasoning
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Trait theory stems from...
Behaviorism
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Who was Gordon Allport
One of the most influential psychologists in the empirical study of personality
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What is a personality trait?
A person’s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
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What are central traits?
aspects of personality that reflect a characteristic way of behaving, dealing with others, and reacting to new situations
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What are secondary traits?
changeable aspects of personality
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How did Allport study personality?
Factor alalysis
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How many key personality traits did Raymond Cattel come up with?
16
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What were Eyesnek's three key factors and what did he call them?
-psychoticsm -extraversion -neuroticism SUPERFACTORS
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What is psychoticism?
Vulnerability to breaks from reality or for rule breaking, and aggression -more drug friendly, care less about hygiene and structure
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What is extraversion
Tendency to be out-going. Energized by social interaction
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Define Neuroticism
Negative emotionality
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Eyesneck viewed the PEN model as being biological...
* Extraversion: level of arousal * Neuroticism: activation thresholds in sympathetic NS (fight of flight) * Psychoticism: testosterone Levels
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What are the big five?
Openness to experience Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism
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What is openness to experience
* Interested in trying new things, curiosity, imagination * Associated with liberal (rather than conservative) political attitudes
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What is conscientiousness?
* Disciplined, well-organized, punctual, dependable * Associated with positive health- related behaviors, longevity, and high levels of achievement (higher GPAs)
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What is extraversion?
* Outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, assertive, gregarious * Linked with more happiness
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What is aggreeableness
Sympathetic, trusting, cooperative, modest * Associated with empathy
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What is Neuroticsm?
Anxious, self-conscious, moodiness * Associated with divorce
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What is the H factor in HEXACO
honesty-humility
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What is the problem with personality?
We all act different in different senarios
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The personality is AT MOST r=
0.3 (not really correlated)
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Who came up with social-cognitive theories?
Walter Mischel, Albert Bandura
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Situations and social learning?
People display different behaviors in different contexts
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Social-cognitive theorists believe...
* Central personality traits are acquired from learning history and expectations/beliefs * Acknowledgement that people can have a core set of traits and their behavior can vary across situations
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What is a state?
A temporary physical or psychological engagement that influences behavior
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Stable parts of our personality are called ...
Traits or disposition
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parts of ourselves that change are ...
states
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What is traits self-esteem?
a more stable quality that describes people’s general self-evaluations
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What is state self-esteem
refers to how people feel in the moment, how they feel right now
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Four aspects of situations that influence how personality traits are expressed:
-location -association -activities -subjective states
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What is reciprocal determinsm?
Describes the interaction and mutual influence of behavior, internal personal factors, and environmental factors; “personalities” are based on these interactions
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Further about reciprocal determinsim...
* The two-way interaction between aspects of the environment and aspects of the individual in the shaping of personality traits * Personality is not something “inside” the person, but rather exists “between” the person (their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors) and the environment
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internal personal factors
interaction of individuals and environments
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What is culture?
A program of shared rules that governs the behavior of members of a community or society and a set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community
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What is our WEIRD world
western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic
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One study discovered that WEIRD and non WEird people are actually quite
alike
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are we more or less likely to assume we have our countries stereotypical behavior
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