Chapter 13: Theories of Personality

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Theories of Personality
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Personality The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave.
Psychodynamic Perspective -Sigmund Freud -People change over time. -Past experiences shape who we are. -We are not always aware of why we do the things we do.
Preconscious Mind -Sigmund Freud -Information is available but not currently conscious
Conscious Mind -Sigmund Freud -Level aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions.
Unconscious Mind -Sigmund Freud -Level in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness are kept.
Id -Focused on immediate gratification and survival -Present at birth
Superego -Contains the conscience, provides sense of right and wrong.
Ego -The "I" caught in the middle. -Reality principle: satisfaction of the demands of the id only when negative consequences will not result.
Examples of Defense Mechanisms -Denial -Repression -Rationalization -Projection -Reaction Formation -Displacement -Regression -Identification -Compensation -Sublimation
Erogenous Zone -Area of the body that produces pleasurable feelings, becomes important and can become the source of conflicts.
Fixation -Disorder in which the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, resulting in personality traits and behavior associated with that earlier stage.
Electra Complex -Girls fighting for affection from their fathers with their mothers becoming their rivals.
Latency Stage -Sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways.
Carl Jung -Developed a theory including both a personal and a collective unconscious -Collective unconscious: the memories shared by all members of the human species.
Alfred Adler -Proposed the driving force behind all human endeavors, emotions, and thoughts was the seeking of superiority -Birth order
Karen Horney -Developed a theory based on basic anxiety; replacing the concept of penis envy with "womb" envy.
Erik Erikson -Developed theory based on social rather than sexual relationships, covering the entire life span.
Self-Efficacy -An individual's perception of how effective a behavior will be in any particular circumstance (not the same as self-esteem)
Bandura's Reciprocal Determinsim Explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics, and behavior can interact to determine future behavior
Rotter's Social Learning THoery -Based on principle of motivation.
Self-actualization Tendency -The striving to fulfill one's innate capacities and capabilities.
Self-concept -The image of oneself that develops from interactions with important, significant people in one's life.
Gordon Allport -Traits found in personality. -200 traits; wired into the nervous system.
Raymond Cattell -Surface Traits: aspects of personality that can easily be seen by other people in the outward actions of a person -Source Traits: the more basic traits that underlie the surface traits, forming the core of personality. -Identified 16 source traits with a computer method called factor analysis -16PF
Five-Factor Moder -Openness: try new things. -Conscientiousness: thoughtfulness of others. -Extraversion: intro-/extroverts -Agreeableness: emotional style of a person. -Neuroticism: emotional stability/instability.
Behavioral Assessments -Behaviorist assumes personality is merely habitually learned responses to stimuli.
Interview -Personality assessment in which professional asks questions of the client and allows client to answer, either in an unstructured or semistructured interview.
Personality Inventory Paper-and-pencil or computerized test that consists of statements that require a specific, standardized response from the person taking test.
MMPI-2-RF Designed to detect abnormal behavior or thinking patterns in personality
Projective Tests -Personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the client to respond with whatever comes to mind.

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