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Title: Personality


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Chapter 10
  • Personality

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Personality
  • Personality Psychological qualities that bring
    continuity to an individuals behavior in
    different situations and at different times
  • Theories help understand the causes of
    similarities and differences among people

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Psychodynamic Theory
  • Psychoanalytic theory focuses on early
    childhood experiences, unconscious
    motives/conflicts, and methods used to cope with
    sexual aggressive urges

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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Unconscious thoughts, memories, desires well
    below the surface of conscious awareness, but
    still exert great influence on behavior
  • Sexual aggressive impulses major source of
    conflict
  • Ambiguous social norms inconsistent messages
    about what is appropriate
  • Thwarted more often than other urges

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Drives and Instincts
  • Eros (life instincts) drives people towards
    acts that are life giving
  • Libido (energy behind eros) drives people to
    experience sensual pleasure
  • Thanatos (death instincts) drives people toward
    aggressive and destructive behaviors

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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory
Id
Primitive, unconscious portion of personality
houses most basic drives and stores repressed
memories
Superego
Ego
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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory
Id
Minds storehouse of values, moral attitudes
learned from parents and society same as common
notion of conscience
Superego
Ego
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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory
Id
Conscious, rational part of personality charged
with keeping peace between superego and id
Superego
Ego
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Freuds Model of the Mind
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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Psychosexual stages Successive, developmental
    periods with a characteristic sexual focus that
    leave their mark on adult personality

Oral Stage
Anal Stage
Phallic Stage
Latency
Genital Stage
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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Ego defense mechanisms Largely unconscious
    mental strategies employed to reduce the
    experience of anxiety or guilt
  • Repression keeping distressing thought/feelings
    in the unconscious
  • Projection attributing ones own thoughts,
    feelings, or motives to another
  • Regression reversion to immature patterns of
    behavior
  • Denial arguing against an anxiety by stating
    that it doesnt exist
  • Undoing attempt to take back thoughts/
    behaviors that are unacceptable

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More Defense Mechanisms
  • Displacement diverting emotional feelings from
    their original source to a substitute target
  • Reaction Formation acting in a way opposite of
    ones true feelings
  • Sublimation acting out unacceptable impulses in
    a socially acceptable way
  • Rationalization creating false, but plausible
    excuses to justify unacceptable behavior

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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Projective tests Personality assessment
    instruments based on Freuds concept of
    projecting hidden motives, interests, conflicts
  • Rorschach inkblot technique
  • Sentence completion
  • Free association
  • Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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Rorschach Inkblot
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Thematic Apperception Test
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Freuds Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Psychic determinism Freuds assumption that all
    mental and behavioral reactions are caused by
    unconscious traumas desires or conflicts
  • Nothing is accidental

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Carl Jung Extending the Unconscious
  • Believed that Freud overemphasized sexuality at
    the expense of other unconscious needs and
    desires
  • Disputed the structure of the unconscious
  • Personal unconscious Portion of the unconscious
    corresponding roughly to Freuds id
  • Collective unconscious Jungs addition to the
    unconscious, involving a reservoir for
    instinctive memories including the archetypes,
    which exist in all people

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Carl Jung Extending the Unconscious
  • Archetypes

Animus
The male archetype
Anima
The female archetype
Shadow
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Carl Jung Extending the Unconscious
Animus
Archetype representing the destructive and
aggressive tendencies we dont want to recognize
in ourselves
Anima
Shadow
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Humanistic Theories
  • Third Force
  • Focus on mental capabilities that set humans
    apart
  • Innate drive to grow and fulfill potential
  • How people view the world and respond
  • Humanistic Theories include
  • Gordon Allports trait theory
  • Abraham Maslows self-actualizing personality
  • Carl Rogers fully functioning person

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Gordon Allport and the Beginnings of Humanistic
  • Traits Stable personality characteristics that
    are presumed to exist within the individual and
    guide his or her thoughts and actions under
    various conditions
  • Central traits form the basis of personality
  • Secondary traits include preferences and
    attitudes
  • Cardinal traits define peoples lives

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Abraham Maslow and the Healthy Personality
  • Self-actualizing personalities Healthy
    individuals who have met their basic needs and
    are free to be creative and fulfill their
    potentials

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Carl Rogerss Fully Functioning Person
  • Fully functioning person Term for a healthy,
    self-actualizing individual, who has a
    self-concept that is both positive and congruent
    with reality

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Carl Rogerss Fully Functioning Person
  • Phenomenal field Our psychological reality,
    composed of ones perceptions and feelings
  • Unconditional positive regard Love or caring
    without conditions attached

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Evaluating Humanistic Theories
  • Positive psychology Movement within psychology
    focusing on the desirable aspects of human
    functioning, as opposed to an emphasis on
    psychopathology

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Social-Cognitive Theories
  • More scientific driven by expectations, too
  • Based on principles of learning (Bandura)
  • Observational learning Process of learning new
    responses by watching the behavior of others
  • Personality is a collection of learned behavior
    patterns (skills, attitudes, beliefs, fears)
  • Reciprocal determinism Process in which the
    person, situation and environment mutually
    influence each other

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Reciprocal Determinism
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What Persistent Patterns are Found in Personality?
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Patterns in Personality
  • The Big Five (McCrae) - handout
  • Type Clusters of traits that are not only
    central to a persons personality but are found
    with essentially the same pattern in many people
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Person-situation controversy Theoretical
    dispute concerning the relative contribution of
    personality factors and situational factors in
    controlling behavior (criticizes trait theory)

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Assessing Traits
  • NEO-PI (Big Five Inventory)
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
    (MMPI-2)
  • Must be valid and reliable!!!
  • Measure what it is supposed to and be consistent!

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What Theories Do People Use to Understand Each
Other?
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Implicit Personality Theories
  • Implicit personality theories Assumptions about
    personality that are held by people to simplify
    the task of understanding others
  • Fundamental attribution error Assumption that
    another persons behavior (especially undesirable
    behavior) is the result of a flaw in the
    personality, rather than in the situation
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