Exam 1
Psychology 01:830:101:03 with Kilianski at Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
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Personality
A unique (distinctiveness) set of consistent (stable) emotional, cognitive, and behavioral dispositions or tendencies
5 Factor Model
Used to guide all research this model only used the five traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, extraversion, neuroticism
Theory
describes mechanisms and processes by which things happen
Openness to Experience
willingness to embrace novelty, imaginative
Extraversion
Outgoing, social nature
Neuroticism
Nervousness, expressing negativity, anger, envy, guilt, depression, anxiety
Conscientiousness
reliable, showing great concern, thoroughness, thinking before acting
Agreeableness
agreeable, flexible with decisions,
Factor Analysis
What goes together
Factor Analytic
Objective tells researcher qualities of each
Sigmund Freud
- behavior driven primarily by unconscious forces
- challenged prevailing ideas of time (human beings acted based on reason and logic)
important or profound change occurred by age 6
- traits transcend situations
What are the three personality components?
ID, EGO, SUPEREGO
ID
present at birth, concerned with drive satisfaction, provides the motive power; follows the pleasure principle, immediate gratification (immoral), Propels people to act
Ego
end of first year of live, Rational thought; controls & channels id; follows the reality principle (unconscious)
Superego
Emerges at about age 5-6, internalized parental control, much like a rigid punitive, excessively strict conscience (moral)
Psychoanalytic Theory
All living unconsciously conflicting lives
Libido
Life sustaining , the sexual life energy that drives the id, anything associated with bodily pleasure, urination, defecation, oral pleasure
Thanatos
The self-destructive Death instinct of the id; transformed into aggression toward others, unconscious urge to kill ourselves
The Conscious
Consists of things you are currently aware of, constantly changing
The Preconscious
Consists of things in long term memory that influence behavior, could be retrieved if desired, not currently occurring in mind but can bring them back, small percent of mind
The Unconscious
Consists of things you're unaware of but that influence you, the primary personality component, cannot get to own unconscious mind, reflected through slips of the tongue, humor, dreams
Freudian Theory Psycho-sexual Stages
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
Oral (0-1 year)
-Libido Gratification comes from oral exploration
- either excessive or inadequate gratification results in fixation at the oral stage
Oral Personality:
Fixation may result in overeating, under-eating, alcoholism, smoking, dependent personality
Anal Stage (1-3 years)
-Pleasure and libido satisfaction from expelling and withholding feces
-either excessive or inadequate gratification results in fixation at anal stage
Anal personality:
Problems in anal stage lead to either excessive orderliness or excessive messiness
Phallic Stage (3-6 years)
-Freud believed sex-role identification occurred and superego emerged
-mechanisms included Boys: castration anxiety (Oedipal Complex) Girls: penis envy (Electra Complex)
Phallic Personality: sex role identification problems: homosexuality, vanity, etc
Latency Stage (6- puberty)
- a time of focus on achievement and mastery of skills
-libido channeled into mastery activities
- Freud though little of interest happened here
Genital Stage (From puberty)
-The time of mature personality, intimacy with others
-Libido satisfied by adult- type monogamous heterosexuality
Defense Mechanisms (all unconscious)
-Methods for dealing with unconscious conflict that distort reality
Repression
Relegating anxiety- causing thoughts to the unconscious, remaining completely unaware of them
Ex: Parents as sexual beings
Projection
Attributing one's undesirable traits or actions on others, so they become the problem instead of you
Ex: A man with unconscious homosexual desires avoids gays because they thing anyone who is gay will try and seduce him
Rationalization
Creating intellectually- acceptable arguments for thoughts or behavior to hide the actual anxiety- causing impulses
Ex: I patronized prostitutes only because I'm a writer who needs varied experiences to make my novels real.
Regression
Reverting to the comfort of behaviors of an earlier stage of development in order to cope
Ex: Children who crawl around the floor and produce baby talk when a new baby enters the family
Displacement
Substituting a less-threatening object for the actual target of the forbidden impulse.
Ex: A child angry at his parents might tease and insult her younger sibling instead-- a person like the parent in some ways, but more psychologically acceptable as a target
Reaction Formation
Forbidden unconscious urge is experienced consciously as its exact opposite
Ex: A man with unconscious homosexual yearning becomes a homophobic "gay basher"
Sublimation
The most mature mechanism, redirecting anxiety- causing impulses into socially acceptable actions.
Ex: Instead of pursing gratification of sexual urges, authoring a literary masterpiece
Problems with Freud's Theory
-Not testable, not scientific
-No evidence for penis envy, castration anxiety, the latency period
-biased against females
- relies on to many constructs
About this deck
By: Malvika Brahmbhatt
Created: 2012-02-19
Size: 36 flashcards
Views: 55
Created: 2012-02-19
Size: 36 flashcards
Views: 55
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