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| Unique way in which an individual thinks, acts, and feels throughout life. |
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| Refers to moral and ethicl judgements |
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| Enduring characteristics of a person based on Genetic and Biological influences. |
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| Personality Psychologists |
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| Want to investigate the characteristic behavior of human beings. |
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Perspectives of Pesonality Psychologists:
Psychodynamic
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| Focuses on the role of the unconcious mind in personalty development. |
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Perspectives of Pesonality Psychologists:
Behaviorist |
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| Focuses on the effect of the environment (learning) on personality development. |
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Perspectives of Pesonality Psychologists:
Humanistic
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| Focuses on individual's life experiences and choices in personality development |
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Perspectives of Pesonality Psychologists:
Trait
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| Concerned with the specific characteristics or traits of individuals. |
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| Time of sexual repression. |
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The "mind":
Divided into three parts:
Preconcious mind
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| Memories, info, that is accessible if you want to retrieve it. |
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The "mind":
Divided into three parts:
Concious mind
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The "mind":
Divided into three parts:
Unconcious mind
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| Part of the mind that remains hidden at all times. Surfaces only in dreams and manifests in unexplained behaviors. |
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Psycodynamic Perspective:
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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| Freud believed that the unconcious mind was the most important determining factor in human behavior and personality. |
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Psycodynamic Perspective:
Sigmund Freud Believed human personality has 3 parts:
Ego |
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| Mostly in the concious mind. |
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Psycodynamic Perspective:
Sigmund Freud Believed human personality has 3 parts:
Superego |
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| Partially in the concious mind and partially in the preconscious. |
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Psycodynamic Perspective:
Sigmund Freud Believed human personality has 3 parts:
Id |
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| All in the unconscious mind. |
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-Completely pleasure seeking, amoral, unconcious part of the personality.
-Exists from Birth.
-Contains biological Drives.
-Demanding, illogical, irrational, impulsive
-The pleasure Principal - Desire for immediate gratification with no reguards for the consequences. |
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-Ego develops to deal with the challenges of life-- Provide rational explanation for events allows for inhibition of impulses.
-Rational, logical, cunning.
- The Reality principal- The ego satisfies the needs of the Id onlyif it will not lead to negative consequences.
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-The Conscience- moral watchdog.
-Develops during preschool ages
-Learn rules, morality, ethical behavior.
-Develop pride when doing the right thing.
-Develop guilt when doing the wrong thing. |
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-The Id, and the Superego are in opposition- Creates inner conflict and anxiety.
-The ego has t choose what to do.
-Psycological defense mechanism- To resolve conflict we create unconsiously distortions of reality. |
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
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-Believed that personality development hinged on a child's developing sex drive.
-Stages of Personality development based on which part of the body was associated with pleasurable feelings. |
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
Fixation:
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| Unresolved conflicts during a stage can cause one to get "stuck" |
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
Oral Stage
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Erogeneuos zone is the mouth. From birth to 1-1.5 yrs. old. This stage is Dominated by the Id.
Effects of early or late weaning. |
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
Anal Stage
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From 1.5-3 yrs. old.
Effects of toilet training.
Anal expulsive personalities
Anal retentive personalities |
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
Phallic Stage |
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-3-6 yrs. Erogenous area is genetalia.
-Castration anxiety and penis envy
-Oedipus complex and identification
-Development of the Superego |
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
Latency Stage
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-From 6 to puberty
-Sexual feelings for opposite sex are repressed.
-Boys have "Cooties" and Girls are "yucky" |
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages:
Genital Stage |
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-Puberty onwards
-Sexually attracted to peers. |
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-Broke away from emphasis on sexual behavior and focused more on social environmental influences on personality development.
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| Collective unconscious- memories shared by all members of the human species.- Archetypes |
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Focused on feelings of inferiority and superiority as determinants in personality development
Effects of birth order. |
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Focused on basic anxiety inherent in the helpless child.
Secure upbringing- overcome anxiety
Insecure upbringing- Neurotic personalities |
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| 8 stages of psychosocial development |
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Emphasized the role of learning on personality development.
-EX. Shy person develops "habit" of withdrawal because of strict parents |
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| Learning, expectations, and modeling all play a role in developing personality |
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Bandura's theory of personality:
Reciprocal Determanism |
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| Environment, behavior, and cognitive factors all work together to determine personality. |
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Bandura's theory of personality:
Self efficiancy |
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| Expectations of whether ones's own behavior will accomplish a goal in that circumstance. |
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| Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow |
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| Focuses onaspects of personality that make people uniquely human-- i.e., Feelings and choices. |
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| Self actualization tendancy |
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Need to fulfil one's own potential
Formation of one's self concept:
Real self V. Ideal Self
The "fully Functioning" person |
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| Describe personalities and try to predict behavior based on that personality |
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| Believed traits were wired in the nervous system. |
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Trait Theories
Cattel and the 16pf |
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-surface traits v. source traits
-through statistical methods identified 16 source traits.
-The big five: OCEAN |
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OCEAN: The Five Factor Model
Represent the core description of human personality.
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Openness- willing to try new things.
Conscientiousness- orginization and motivation.
Extraversion- Outgoing Sociable
Agreeableness- Emotional style: Friendly, pleasent.
Neuroticism- Emotional stability or instability: Anxiety |
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