Who’s gotPERSONALITY?

Name the different theories of personality.

1. Psychoanalysis2. Trait Theory3. Humanistic Theory4. Social-Cognitive5. Behaviorism/

Which theory is most focused on our unconscious desires and motives, childhood sexuality, and traumatic experiences?

Psychoanalysis

Name 4 theorists most closely associated with psychoanalysis.

Sigmund Freud Alfred Adler (inferiority complex) Karen Horney (women, no penis envy) Carl Jung…

Who argued that there is a store/reservoir of shared human experiences? What is this called?

Carl Jung Collective Unconscious

Name the psychosexual stages. Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital

Any conflicts that are unresolved during one of these psychosexual stages can lock in their “pleasure seeking energies” at that stage. This is called…

fixation

If you become fixated at the oral stage, what behaviors might you exhibit as an adult?

Overeating, smoking, biting nails…anything to do with your mouth

If you become fixated at the anal stage, what behaviors might you exhibit as an adult?

Super neat (anal retentive), super messy (anal expulsive)

If you become fixated at the latency stage, what behaviors might you exhibit as an adult?

Poor social skills

Freud would argue that a person who is dominated by their basic needs and need instant gratification (now…I want it now!) are dominated by what part of their personality?

Id

This part of your personality works in reality

Ego

You feel very guilty after cheating on your AP English test so you confess to your teacher. What part of your personality helped you do this?

Superego If you had a weak superego, you

wouldn’t feel guilty

During what psychosexual stage are boys in love with their mothers? What is this called?

Phallic Oedipus Complex

Tactics our ego uses to reduce anxiety by distorting reality are called…

Defense mechanisms

Your boyfriend broke up with you and you scream at your best friend even though she did nothing wrong. What defense mechanism?

Displacement

Your dad leaves your family for another woman. You begin to sleep with a night light. What defense mechanism?

Regression

You steal $20 from your sister’s drawer. You totally deserve it more than she does because you do more chores around the house. What defense mechanism?

Rationalization

You tell everyone how disrespectful your brother is even thought it’s you who cusses out your brother at least once a week. What defense mechanism?

Projection

You are overly nice to the girl who spread rumors about you and you really despise her. What defense mechanism?

Reaction formation

Children who witness their parent’s murder often remember it. This contradicts what defense mechanism?

Repression

Name 3 ways that psychoanalysts try to tap into the unconscious.

Free association Hypnosis Dream analysis Projective tests

Name 2 types of projective tests (presented vague stimuli & say what you think it represents)

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Rorschach Inkblot Test

What perspective argues that the more you are loved, accepted, and your needs are met, the more successful & developed person you’ll likely be?

Humanistic

What 2 theorists are most closely associated with the Humanist Perspective?

Carl Rogers Abraham Maslow

Maslow said our main goal, after all of our physiological, psychological, and self esteem needs are met, is to achieve our fullest potential called…

Self-actualization

Your thoughts & feelings about who you are is known as…

Self-concept Try to have a positive one…you’ll see

the world in a more positive light

Total acceptance toward another person that allows him/her to achieve the best, take risks, accept who we are is called…

Unconditional positive regard

According to Carl Rogers, what 3 things do all individuals need in order to grow into healthy adults?

Genuine (open w/ your feelings, true to who you are)

Acceptance (unconditional positive regard)

Empathy

What theory of personality argues that most people describe themselves by their main characteristics?

Trait Theory

What theorist is most closely associated with trait theory?

Gordon Allport Cardinal traits (dominate) Central traits (main characteristics) Secondary traits (situational)

Questionnaires designed to gauge your feelings & behaviors and assess your personality traits is called…

Personality inventory

What is the most widely administered personality inventory?

MMPI Also, Myers-Briggs is really popular

(based on Carl Jung)

Name the Big Five Personality Factors. Conscientiousness Agreeableness Neuroticism Openness Extraversion Know what each includes!

Who proposed the Social-Cognitive Perspective of Personality?

Albert Bandura

The Social-Cognitive Perspective focuses on the interaction between what 3 things?

Traits Thinking (hmm…cognitive) Environment (hello…social)

You think that it’s only luck that determines if you are going to get an A on the test today. You don’t have any control over what questions I’m going to ask, what the FRQ is going to be on so why study? This is the idea that chance determines your fate also called…

External locus of control

You think that you are in control of your own successes, failures, and your fate. This is an example of…

Internal locus of control

I can’t believe I wore 2 mismatching earrings today! Everyone is going to be staring at me!

Spotlight Effect

You fully take credit when you are successful but blame others when you fail.

Self-serving bias

In what type of society is the group more important that you as an individual?

Collectivist