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Sigmund Freud

Sigman Freud says that personality comes from impulse and restraint- EGO, ID, Superego


-Forms during psychosexual development


-Freud is considered the father of modern psychology


One of the first therapists in psychology


-Freud’s students are called Neofreudians

ID

the part of your personality that is more devious



Repression:

-banishing anxiety from consciousness

Regression:

-Retreating to more infantile behavior (ex: whining)

Reaction Formation:

switching unacceptable impulses into the opposite

Projection:

disguising own threatening impulses by attributing to others

Rationalization:

Self-justifying explanations

Displacement:

Discharging pent-up hostile feelings on objects less threatening

Sublimation:

Re-channeling to socially acceptable activities

Carl Jung:

Said that personality is opposing forces -Persona -Shadow -Anima -Animus




A balance becomes the "self"



Denial:

Refusing to admit the unpleasant

Unconscious

A level of consciousness at which thoughts wishes, and feelings are not accessible to conscious awareness

Types of conscious

Personal unc.




Collective unc. (our ancestor’s unconscious and ours) (reveals archetypes)

Jung's Archetypes

Family


Story


Animal

Alfred Adler

Believes personality is the overcoming of inferiority complexes; believed birth order played a role; created Birth Order Theories

Karen Horney

Believes that personality is overcoming basic anxiety;The importance of developing secure relationships

Abraham Maslow

Humanistic; Personality is self-actualization and studied healthy and creative ppl

Carl Rogers

Personality is developed with


Genuineness


Acceptance


Empathy




-Acceptance of self leads to Unconditional Positive Regard

Traits:

Characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel or act; assessed by self-reported inventories or peer reports




These theories were developed by Gorden Allport and he was a neo-FreudianHe said psychoanalysis is focused on hidden motives, just wanted to describe, not explain

Meyers-Briggs Theory

This attempted to sort based on Jung’s personality types using an inventory -Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with 126 questions

Eyesenck's Personalities

Developed Eyesenck


based on Greek ideas of the body Personality & Questionnaire




4 cores: Unstable, stable, Introverted and Extroverted

Big 5 Personalities

-developed by Costa & McRae




Conscientiousness


Agreeableness


Neuroticism


Openness


Extroversion

MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY

(MMPI)


-Assess abnormal personality traits




-weakness: too imperial

Social-Cognitive Perspective

This was created by Albert Bandura; it says that interacting influences of behavior created personality; if two are strong, the other will follow




Environment of anger, hostile thinking and hostile behavior

View of Psychodynamic Theories

Psychodynamic theories view each person as a complex system of diverse sources of psychic energy, each of which pushes the person in a somewhat different direction.

Conflict-

The different sources of energy tend to propel the person in conflicting directions and the behavior prompted by these multiple sources of energy usually cannot satisfy all of the conflicting psychic drives at once.

Determinism-

the belief that people’s behavior is ruled by forces over which the people have little or no control

Primary-Process Thought-

a form of thought that is irrational, instinct-driven and unrealistic; ex: the id.

Pleasure Principal-

Pursuing immediate gratification of urges for pleasure, regardless of the external realities

Reality Principle-

Responding to the real world as it is perceived to be

Secondary-Process Thought

rational, based on reality

Person-Centered Approach

This was created by Carl Rogers and it says that personality strongly emphasizes the self and each person’s perception of self

Social-Learning Theory of Julia Rotter:

Internal Locus of Control- People who believe that the causes of behavioral consequences originate within the individual




External Locus of Control- Behavioral consequences originate outside the individual