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Exam 3-Chapter 10 Personality
Psychology 100 with Muehlenkamp at University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
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Textbook:
Psychology: A Journey (with Practice Exam and Visual Guide)Created: 2010-11-29
Size: 67 flashcards
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Unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior
Theory Stresses:
The influence of unconscious mental processes, “Freudian Slips”, Importance of sexual and aggressive instincts, Victorian Era(=sexually repressed), Enduring effects of early childhood experiences.
Aggressive/Sexual impulses coming out
Take and unacceptable impulse and turn it into something that society appreciates and values. Ex.= an aggressive female becoming a police officer, artists drawing nude portraits, “peeping tom” becoming a photographer for playboy
-Sexist
-Can make anything fit with his theory
-“Blame the Victim”
-Theory lacks testability
-Easier to explain past behavior than it is to predict future behavior
Move towards others
Move against others
Move away from others
Carl Rogers
a person’s subjective perception of oneself and abilities, need to understand this to understand someone’s personality
-Structure of personality
-Sense of self
-Positive Regard
-Unconditional positive Regard
-Conditions of Worth
(18 months)
Beliefs about our abilities
Valuing of yourself and your skills
-Healthy self-esteem achieved when self-concept is congruent with experiences
-Strong push to enhance self-esteem today
-Praise
-Attention
-Approval from others
An attempt to match one’s own behavior to another person’s behavior
-Learn what is acceptable in a society
-Gender stereotypes
Possessing male and female characteristics
-More able to adapt to difficult situations
-Better at coping with difficult situations
-They are able to be instrumental and emotionally express themselves
-Focus on identifying, describing, measuring individual experiences
-People are unique combinations of personality characteristics or attributes (Traits)
Universal traits that can be found in people across many cultures
-Source traits produce surface traits
-Intoversion & Extroversion
-Neuroticism & Emotional Stability
-Psychooticism
-5 universal source traits
Neuroticism
Exroversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Openness to Experience
Outgoingness, Need for stimulation
The Oral Stage
The Anal Stage
The Phallic Stage
Latency
The Genital Stage
About this deck
Textbook:
Psychology: A Journey (with Practice Exam and Visual Guide)Created: 2010-11-29
Size: 67 flashcards
Views: 125
About StudyBlue
Kathy