Roots of Personality

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What are the problems with psychoanaylsis approach? Theorists never keen to empirically test theory, central constructs can't be operationalised, central hypothesis empirically studied by not supported, no suitable paradigms to test it
What have been the positives of psychoanalysis? Several concepts were successfully operationalized, empirically confirmed, and integrated into mainstream psychology.
What are some of Freud's concepts that are used in other areas? Unconscious motives, transference, defence mechanisms, mental representation of early object relations
What does the behaviourist approach say personality results from? Global learning mechanisms
What does radical behaviourism reject? All mental, non-observable constructs.
According to behaviourism, what shapes personality and what has no role? Environment shapes it, no heretiability
What did Watson (1930) believe? If you gave him a child, he could turn them into anything. He admitted he was going beyond his findings
What is the strength of the behaviourism approach? Belief personality can be indefinitely be shaped by appropriate environments is still current
What are the problems of behaviourism? Newborns show individual differences, learning is personality dependent, some behaviours easier to lean than others, some are more easily explained by mental concepts
What does the information processing paradigm emphasize? Role of individual differences in conscious and unconscious cognitive processes for personality traits
Evolutionary psychology understands behaviour as result of what? And how does individual differences arise? Evolution, and arise due to different success in different enviroments
What is dynamic interactionism approach? Environment influences personality and vice versa. Takes into account role genes
What does behavioural genetics methods assess? Genetic heritability of personality
What methods does the behavioural genetics approach use? Family, twin and adoption studies
Who found high correlations in big 5 scores in monozygotic twins then low in dizygotic? Riemann et al. (1997)
Who found big differences in the similarities in twins that where monozygotic and dizygotic? Loehlin (1989)
What are the three instances of psychoanalysis? Id, ego, superego
Who created percentages for how heritable big 5 traits are? Riemann et al. (1997)
In Eaves et al. (1989), Lehlin and Martin (2001), Waller (1999), and Jang et al. (1996) where the habitability rate of big 5 traits same or different? Varied dramatically. Could have been due to cultural factors
Who found adopted children correlated more with biological parent on all scales than adoptive parents? Loehlin et al. (1985)
Pedersen et al. (1988) and Hershberger et al. (1995) both found... Correlations in monozygotic twins drops when reared apart over together, no effect in dyozygotic
What are the problems when estimating contributions of hertiability and environment; Dominant/recessive genes, interactions between genes, shared and non-shared environments (assumption not always true), assortive mating (similarities)
According to psychoanalysis, what are the two mechanisms responsible for character formation and individual differences? Fixation in psychosexual development, mechanisms of defense
What were the two dimensions of Asendorps and Scherer (1983)? Social desirability and anxiety
What are the various types in Asendorps and Scherer (1983) regarding different levels of the dimensions? Low in both is low anxious, low in anxiety +high social desirability is the represser, high in a low in sd is high anxious, high in both is defensive anxious
What did Asendorps and Scherer (1983) involve? Participants did an association task with taboo words, mimics and physiology was monitored, and did questions using social desirability and anxiousness questionaires
What were the results of Asendrops and Scherer (1983)? Repressers negative verbal mimics, low ancious negative mimics and heartrate, high anxious positive vernal and mimic
What are the assumptions of psychoanalysis? Concept of psychic energy, deterministic, energy provided by sex/aggression instinct, Motive of behaviour is unconcious, expereince and behaviour result of conflict of instances
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