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How is Personality measured

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  • self report
  • Behaviour
  • Scientific measures of personality
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The big fiver inventory (evidence based personality measures)

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CANOE - Measures the big 5 personality traits

  • Conscientiousness (self-discipline)
  • Agreeableness (cooperative)
  • Neuroticism (Negative emotions)
  • Openness to Experience (curiosity)
  • Extraversion (Energetic)
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Non-evidence based personality measures

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  • Phrenology (shape and size of head to determine personality)
  • Projective tests (how people interpret situations or images)
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Theories of Personality

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(Sigmund Freud)
Components of personality
1. Id - Instinct (Caveman)
2. Ego - achieving the instinct
3. Superego - Ethical behaviour supporting the ego

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Defence mechanisms used by the ego

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  1. Projection (unconscious urge)
  2. Displacement (transferring emotional reaction to a situation)
  3. Repression (unconscious feeling that is seen as unacceptable)
  4. Reaction formation (doing opposite of unconscious urge)
  5. Denial (refuse to admit reality)
  6. Rationalisation (Logical explanation for bad actions/feelings)
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Stages of psychosexual development

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  1. Oral (mouth)
  2. Anal (Anus) (retentive or expulsive)
  3. Phallic (genitals)(Oedipus - boys want their mother)(electra - girls want their dad)
  4. Latency (no sexual drive)
  5. Genital (puberty)
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Trait theory

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traits are central to people’s behaviour

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16 personality factors

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Cattell’s Factor analysis, which create personality and predict behaviours

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Eysenck’s three-dimensional factor

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model of personality based on:
1. Extraversion (outgoing or not)
2. Neuroticism (emotional stability)
3. Psychoticism (autonomy, creativity, aggressiveness)

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Behaviour theory

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focuses on external environment and consequences of behaviour and people’s personality adapts to that

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Humanistic theory

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People have their own free will and create their personality

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Rogerian theory

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individuals are able for self-growth and healing when provided with the right therapy and conditions

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Maslow’s Hierachy of needs

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SELSP
1. Self actualisation (Purpose in life)
2. Esteem needs (respect for self)
3. Love and Belonging needs (social connections)
4. Safety needs (being safe)
5. Physiological needs (fundamentals to survive)

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Social-cognitive theory

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How people learn from their environment

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Self efficacy

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A persons belief that they can perform a task effectively

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Low efficacy

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  1. Avoids difficult tasks
  2. Focus on self doubts
  3. Failure is due to not being able to do the task
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High efficacy

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  1. Approaches difficult task
  2. Focus on how to perform well
  3. Failure is due to lack of trying/study
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Factors that frame self efficacy

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  • Mastering experiences
  • Social persuasion
  • Phycological feedback
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Clinical categories vs personality dimensions

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Clinical psychology - focused on categories
personality dimensions - focused on trait theory

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Advantages of personality dimensional

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  • better information
  • Allows for non-monotonic changes
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Analogue approach under the personality dimensions

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drawing comparisons between two different but similar situations
- contemporary clinical psychologists moving towards dimensional approach

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What are the two factors of how people behave in interactions

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  • personality
  • situation
    high stress situations will increase stress no matter the trait however the personality depends on how much it had already started at
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Characteristics of a psychopath

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  • selfish
  • Manipulative
  • Bold
  • ## low levels of empathy
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Amygdala dysfunction and fear deficits

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  • amygdala activation is reduced (unable to regulate emotions)
  • Deficits in the ability to read sadness and fear
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Attention bottleneck theory
focusing on more than one thing constraints our cognitive performance causing psychopaths
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Measuring psychopathy through Hare Psychopathy Checklist original
- 22 things checked about a person - often used in prison (forensic settings)
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Levenson Self Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP)
- appropriate for non forensic communities - 26 questions of primary and secondary psychopathy
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Primary psychopathy
- selfishness - manipulative
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Secondary psychopathy
- Self defeating lifestyles - extremely impulsive
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Christian and Sellbom's revised LSRP
Found 3 types of psychopathy 1. egocentric 2. Callous 3. Antisocial
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Triarchic Model of Psychopathy (TPM)
They think 1. boldness (born leader to tell others what to do) 2. meanness (Don't care if someone who they don't like gets hurt) 3. Disinhibition (missing things they promised to attend)
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Antisocial Personality disorder (APD)
mental health condition that causes a continuous: - violation of the rights of others - Violation of social norms - lack of empathy
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Altruistic motivation vs Egoistic motivation
altruistic - help out of genuine care Egoistic - help to gain praise, avoid guilt, reduce own discomfort
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Empathy vs distress
empathy - compassion (altruistic helping Distress - uncomfortable (egoistic helping)
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Executive functions def
cognitive processes that enable planning and pursuing goals without distraction from other tasks (Frontal lobe)
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Executive functions are characterised by
Unity - correlations between all EF tasks Diversity - subsets of EF's that correlate higher than others
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Shifting def
Shifting between mental states
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Updating def
updating and working on memory
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inhibition def
Self conscious of power
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Cognitive failures
errors in functioning with certain people receiving them more frequently
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Cognitive failures questionnaire (CFQ)
A set of 25 questions that indicate the frequency of cognitive failures
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CFQ (2.0) Study 1
Included contemporary instances of cognitive failure Studied 3 factors 1. Forgetfulness 2. ability for emotion regulation and planning 3. tidiness and organisation
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Cognitive failures with drivers
- higher likely to crash - Worse performance on useful field of view task
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visual attention
- feature based attention - object based - space based
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preference vs ability
1. Preference (what an individual chooses to do) 2. Ability (what an individual is compelled to do)
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spatial attention
Shifts in the size of attentional breadth (how broad or narrowly someone can direct their attention to stimuli)
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viligance avoidance
Purposely avoiding tasks that require attention
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Intrinsic vs extrinsic emotion regulation
Intrinsic - regulating one's own emotions Extrinsic - regulating another person's emotions
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examples of increasing and decreasing negative emotion for benefit
decrease - Trying to calm someone down - helping a tearful child increase - fire up before a game
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examples of increasing and decreasing positive emotion for benefit
negative emotion - not smiling at funeral Positive emotion - sharing positive news - telling someone a joke
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James Gross's model of emotion regulation
Function: managing and responding to emotions through 5 steps: 1. situation selection (choosing situations to be in) 2. Situation modification (taking action to alter situation) 3. Attention deployment (attention to emotion 4. Cognitive change (Modifying appraisal of reward 5. Response modulation (emotional response)

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