Chapter 12 Personality Part 1

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Personality

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An individuals characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors

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Sigmund Freud

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Founder of Clinical Psychology

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Psychodynamic Theories

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View Personality with a focus on the unconscious and the importance of childhood experience

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions

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Free Association

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a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarassing

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Topographic

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Iceberg Analogy:

Conscious

Pre Conscious

Unconscious

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Id

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The Pleasure Principle

Example: Newborn infant crys out for satisfaction, caring nothing for the world's conditions and demands

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Ego

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The Reality Principle

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Superego

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Above Self

Conscience

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Oral Stage

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(0-18 months) Pleasure centers on the mouth--sucking,biting,chewing

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Anal Stage

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(18-36 months) focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control

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Phallic Stage

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(3-6 years) Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings

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Latency Stage

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(6 to puberty) A phase of dormant sexual feelings

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Genital

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(Puberty On) Maturation of Sexual Interests

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Regression

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Retreating to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated.

Example: A little boy reverts to the oral comfort of thumb sucking in the car on the way to his first day of school

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Reaction Formation

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Switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites

Example: Repressing angry feelings, a person displays exaggerated friendliness.

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Projection

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Disguising one's own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.

Example: The thief thinks everyone is a thief

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Rationalization

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Offering self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for one's actions.

Example: A habitual drinker says she drinks with her friends "just to be sociable"

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Displacement

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Shifting sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person.

Example: A little girl kicks the family dog after her mother sends her to the room

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Denial

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Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities

Example: A partner denies evidence of his loved one's affair.

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Trait

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An enduring quality that makes a person tend to act a certain way.

Examples: Honest, Shy, Hard-Working

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Trait Theory Of Personality

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We are made up of a collection of traits, behavioral predispositions that can be identified and measured, traits that differ from person to person.

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Sheldon's Theory: Body Type and Personality

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Endomorph

Ectomorph

Mesomorph

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Five Factor Theory

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1. Extraversion

2. Agreeableness

3. Conscientiousness

4.Emotional Stability

5. Openness to Experience

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Self Actualization

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One of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential