Personality and Individuality

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Unit 5

• Personality and Individuality
• By Ty and Naddy

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Different Traits

• Cardinal trait- a trait that is so persuasive
  that the person is almost identified with the
  trait
• One of Tylers cardinal traits is his ways to
  amuse people by acting funny
• Surface trait- characteristic that can be
  observed in certain situations
• Bauder is a real nice guy, but when hes on that
  basketball court hes tough and mean
• Source trait- a characteristic that can be
  considered to be the core of the personality
• One of Naddys main source traits is she is
  carefree and lively

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Matching

• Behaviorism- belief that the proper subject
  matter of psychology is objectively observable
  behavior and nothing else
• Validity- the ability of a test to measure what
  it is intended to measure
• Unconscious- the part of the mind that holds
  mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings
  and memories of which are unaware but that
  strongly influences conscious behaviors
• Self- ones experience or image of oneself
  developed through interactions with others
• Heritability- a measure of the degree to which a
  characteristic is related to genetic, inherited
  factors
• Fully functioning- an individual whose person and
  self coincide

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CompletionMultiple Choice

• Ego- part of personality that is in touch with
  reality
• Id- part of the unconscious personality that
  contains our needs, drives, and instincts, as
  well as repressed material
• Percentile system- a system for ranking test
  scores that indicates the ratio of scores lower
  and higher than a given score
• Reliability-ability of a test to give the same
  results under similar conditions
• Standardized- tests must be administered and
  scored the same way every time

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Defensive Mechanisms

• Definition certain specific means by which the
  ego unconsciously protects itself against
  unpleasant impulses or circumstances
• Examples
• Rationalization- Those test questions didnt
  make sense!
• Repression- I hate you, Dad
• Denial- No, that really didnt happen to me
• Projection- Im not the jealous one, she is!
• Reaction Formation- Here son, I cant have you
  this weekend, but here is 50 bucks, go have some
  fun
• Regression- 16 year old boy WAAAAAHHHH
• Displacement- Grandma, your always in the way
• Sublimation- Im going to work harder in
  practice because she makes me mad

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Theories

• Two-factor- Charles Spearmans theory of
  intelligence that proposes that two factors
  contribute to an individuals intelligence
• Social cognitive- Albert Banduras theory in
  which a person acquires new behavior by watching
  others
• Personal construct- George Kellys theory that
  our processes are psychological channelized by
  the ways in which each of us anticipates events

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Different Tests

• Achievement-an instrument used to measure the
  amount of knowledge a person has learned in a
  given subject or area
• Rorschach Inkblot- developed by Hermann Rorschach
  in which he uses ten cards with ink blots on them
  to elicit emotional responses from people
• Projective- an unstructured test of personality
  in which a person is asked to respond freely,
  giving his or her own interpretation of various
  ambiguous stimuli
• Objective- a forced-choice test designed to study
  personality characteristics in which a person
  must select one of several answers

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People of the Psych

• Carl Jung
• Freuds closest associate
• He distinguished between the personal unconscious
  and the collective unconscious
• He called these
• ideas archetypes

• B.F. Skinner
• He founded the 5 purposes of the personality

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Humanistic Approaches to Personality

• They stress to create and live by personal
  standards and perceptions instead of instinctual
  urges or irrational and destructive instincts
  and/or external causes of behavior

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Short Answer

• Explain the two sources of controversy
  surrounding IQ Testing.
• As genetic relationship increases the similarity
  of IQ also increases
• Environment does in fact impact IQs
• Explain the two basic assumptions of trait
  theories of personalities.
• Every trait applies to all people, for example,
  everyone can be classified as more or less
  dependent
• These descriptions can be quantified, for
  example, we might establish a scale on which an
  extremely dependent person scores one while a
  very independent person scores ten.

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CreditsA Glanzer and Wipf ProductionSound
Animations Natalie WipfBackdrops Natalie
Wipf and Tyler GlanzerInformation at large
Tyler GlanzerStarring Kevin Garnett as
himselfLatrell Sprewell as himselfSam Cassell
as himselfChristian Guzman as himselfB.F.
Skinner as himselfCarl Jung as himselfBaby
smurf as itselfThank you for enjoying our
show.Not responsible for any accidents.
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