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| A person’s unique long-term pattern of thinking, emotion, and behavior; the consistency of who you are, have been, and will become. |
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| IS PERSONALITY THE SAME AS CHARACTER? |
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| NO: IT IS PERSONA CHARACTERISTICS THAT HAVE BEEN JUDGED OR EVALUATED; DESIRABLE OR UNDESIRABLE QUALITIES |
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| WHAT IS CHARACTER BUILT FROM? |
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| TEMPERAMENT: HEREDITY ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY, INCLUDING SENSITIVITY, MOODS, IRRITABILITY, AND DISTRACTIBILITY |
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| Stable qualities that a person shows in most situations. |
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| Study of inherited behavioral traits. |
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| WHAT ARE PERSONALITY TYPES? |
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| People who have several traits in common. |
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| WHO IS CARL JUNG? OF WHAT DISCIPLINE? WHAT DID HE BELIEVE? |
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Swiss psychiatrist who was a Freudian disciple, believed that we are one of two
personality types:
• Introvert: Shy, reserved, self-centered person whose attention is focused inward.
• Extrovert: Bold, outgoing person whose attention is directed outward |
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| Making up will stories that make one feel better about a bad situation. Follows damage to emotion regions; medial frontal and anterior limbic areas. |
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| ADDED STABLE AND UNSTABLE TO INTRO/EXTROVERT |
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DESCRIBE THE FOLLOWING TERMS:
MELANCHOLIC
CHOLERIC
PHLEGMATIC
SANGUINE |
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• Melancholic (Sad; Gloomy),
• Choleric (Hot-tempered; Irritable),
• Phlegmatic (Sluggish; Calm),
• Sanguine (Cheerful; Hopeful). |
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| WHAT IS THE PERSONALITY THEORY? |
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| : System of concepts, assumptions, ideas and principles proposed to explain personality. Includes four theoretical perspectives: Trait, Psychodynamic, Behavioristic and Social Learning and Humanist. |
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| What are the four theoretical perspectives of this theory? |
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Trait Theory: Attempt to learn what traits make up personality and how they related to actual behavior.
Psychodynamic Theory: Focus on the inner workings of personality especially internal conflicts and struggles.
Behavioristic and Social Learning Theories: Focus on external environment and on effects of conditioning and learning. Attribute difference in personality to: socialization, expectations, mental processes.
Humanist Theory: Focus on private, subjective experience and personal growth. |
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| Characteristics shared by most members of a culture. |
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| what are individual traits? |
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| Define a person’s unique personal; qualities. Which is what personality psychology is usually about. |
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| what are cardinal traits? |
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| So basic that all of a person’s activities can be traced back to the trait. Mother Teresa was reputed to be compassionate. Abraham Lincoln was reputed to be honest. |
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| Core qualities of a personality. |
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| what are secondary traits? |
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| Superficial aspects of a person. (example; musical tastes, political opinions) |
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A few underlying characteristics of a personality.
Uses factor analysis statistics to see which group of traits always go together and whether a
single underlying concept might be there |
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| what are five personality factors? |
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| extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience |
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| what are trait-situation interactions? |
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| when external circumstances influence the expression of personality traits |
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| Freud's original patient, whose illness began at 21 with a severe cough, then developed into a number of symptoms. |
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| What did Freud believe was the key to curing Anna's hysteria? |
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| To recreate the memory of the incident which had first led to the hysteria. |
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| What is Freud's "psyche"? |
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Freud’s term for the personality.
• Id, Ego, Superego |
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| What is Freud's "libido"? |
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| What is Freud's "thanatos?"? |
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