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The Big Five—Traits of Personality
1. Emotional stability or instability
2. Extraversion or Introversion
3. Open (to new experiences) or Fixed
4. Agreeable or Aloof
5. Conscientiousness or Disorganized
Emotional stability or instability
in other words
a. secure or insecure
b. self satisfied or worried
c. calm vs. anxious
Open (to new experiences) or Fixed
a. imaginative vs. practical
b. variety vs. routine
c. independent vs. conforming
Agreeable or Aloof
a. soft hearted or tough
b. trusting or suspicious
c. helpful or less cooperative
Conscientiousness or Disorganized
a. organized or more haphazard
b. careful or careless
c. disciplined or impulsive
Freud’s two assumptions
- there is an unconscious mind
- mental events are caused (the mind always has a purpose)
Freud’s great contribution
the power of the unconscious.
“Child is father to the man.”
Freud
-childhood influences determine adult personalities
”We are all born polymorphous perverse.”
Freud
-sex is highly motivating
-we will take sex any way we can get it
”Anatomy is destiny.”
Freud
-male--*Oedipus complex
-female—*Electra complex
*we want to have sex with the opposite sex parent and get rid of the same sex parent
Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory: (3 things that are still useful today)
Secondary Gains
Slips
Defense Mechanisms
Secondary Gains
Payoffs; hidden benefits within problems
eg: women hysterically paralyzed (Freud)
-hidden benefits: sympathy and attention, also money
Slips
Mistakes made reveal a deeper truth—unconscious slips
Defense Mechanisms
a necessary compromise in modern life
-conflict within ourselves leads to anxiety leads to defense
types of defense mechanisms
Repression, Denial, Projection, Displacement, Identification, Reaction formation, Regression, Intellectualization, Rationalization,Sublimation
Carl Rogers
-humanist– (belief in potential)
-we are born good: with an actualizing tendency (AT)– to innately strive to become the person that we are meant to be.
Therapeutic Listening
Empathy—feeling with client
Congruence—lack of pretense
Unconditional positive regard
positively regarding the person
not judging or criticizing
person feels nourished and can grow
Not Listening
Advice
Reassurance
Agreement
Invalidation
“Me, too!”
Fully-Functioning Person
The Rogerian Ideal
Repression
motivated forgetting— the most important
Identification
—insecure w/i yourself, so be like someone else
Or w. the aggressor eg. Patty Hearst
Denial
– getting off the hook– not my fault
Projection
—find your faults in other people
Displacement
—express emotion to wrong people or in
wrong place (eg. anger)
Intellectualization
—using the intellect to deny emotion
Regression
—going back to an earlier time period when it was easier to cope
Reaction formation
—doing or showing the opposite of what
you really feel
Sublimation
—channeling impulses into a socially
acceptable fashion
Rationalization
—using excuses, justifications and reasons