Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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- Neo Psychoanalytical
- Karen Horney
- Feminist approach to Freud
- Female penis envy: Product of
social/cultural influences
- Neuroticism
- Unhappy people trying to form relationships
- They tend to emit their insecurities
onto other people - not attractive
- They deal with this by: Moving Toward,
Away From or Against people
- Away: Asocial, socially indifferent
- Toward: Clingy, seeking acceptance
- Against: Forceful, bossy
- Strengths
- Considers social
- Limitations
- Untested
- Limited in content: Basically just Neurotic
- Psychoanalytical
- Freud
- Strengths
- Strongly influenced psychology
- Therapy can treat people
- Limitations
- Based off clinical case studies
- Abnormality
- Doesnt apply to most
- Cant be tested
- Personality is the result of:
- Defense mechanisms
- Repression
- Projection
- Rationalisation
- Psychosexual stages of development
- Oral, Anal, Phallic etc.
- Internal/Subconscious
conflict with the ID,
EGO, SUPEREGO
- Humanistic
- Maslow
- heirachy
- Strengths
- Focus human
achievement rather
than disorder
- Widely accepted
- Structured Heirachy
- Limitations
- Disregards culture
- Unscientific
- Rogers
- Self Congruence
- Consistency in IDEA of self and REALITY
- Anxiety comes from
distorting experiences
that threaten sonsistency
- Psychotherapy: Client centred
Supportive not reconstructive
- Strengths
- Consideres human potential not disorder
- Limitations
- Focused on personal
differences
- Thinking rationally
- Behaviourist
- Types & Traits
- Allport
- Dictionaries
- 4000 ways to describe
perosnality
- Refined to 171
- 3 categories
- Cardinal: Deep,
influences behaviour,
thoughts, feelings
- Central: Not so deep
- Secondary: Superficial (STATE)
- Strengths
- Descriptive
- Clear
- Structured Heirachy
- Limitations
- Some traits arent solely indipendant
- Some traits are very similar
- Descriptive not explantory
- Cultural consideration
- Didnt use factor analysis
- Cattell
- Refined 171 to 16
- 16 traits were the source of
all human personality
- 16 factor personality test
- Adventurous - Shy
Outgoing - Reserved
- Strengths
- Used factor analysis
- Test used for job interviews etc.
- Limitations
- Some traits are similar/ not independent of each other
- McCrae & Costa
- Refined 16 to 5
- 5: The roots of all human personality
- Big Five Personality test
- Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Nearoticism
- Took me 5 minutes to spell Conscientiousness -.-
- Strengths
- Common test
- Functional: Predicts behaviour
- Limitations
- Over simplified
- Neuroticism isn't a common trait
- Descriptive not explanitory
- Factors influence each other
- Psychosocial
- Albert Bandura
- Triadic Reciprocal Model
- Interaction between...
- Enviro
- Behaviour
- Psychological processes
- Defines personality
- Strengths
- Positive
- Self empowering
- Curing personality disroders
- Limitations
- Therapy can cause
people to become
overconfident in
themselves
- Very ambiguous results
- Biological
- Contemporary
- genes
- Nervous system makeup
- Neurotransmitters
- Hormones
- Testosterone
- Sex drive
- Estrogen
- Emotional stability
- Strengths
- Can be scientifically proven
- Limitations
- Doesnt account for social/cultural environmental influences
- Nature not nurture
- Historical
- Phrenology (shape of head)
- Body Types
- Endomurph
- Physionomy (shape of face)
- Bodily fluids
- Took physical traits and
associated them with
personality traits
- Strengths
- Was the first consideration of personality traits
- Limitations
- Has been proven wrong
- Made loose connections to suit hypotheses
- GENERAL PERSONALITY
- DISORDERS
- Unique, relatively consistent
PATTERN of BEHAVIOUR,
THOUGHTS & FEELINGS
- How you handle situations
- Sense of humour
- Expectations of others