{"id":3911,"date":"2018-07-22T17:59:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2018-07-22T19:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T23:03:44","slug":"personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/introduction-to-psychology\/personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Personality <\/u><\/strong>\u00ad Relatively stable and enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions \u2022 Assessing Personality:<\/p>\n

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Interviews\n
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Structured<\/strong>\u00ad every person gets same set of predetermined questions<\/li>\n
Unstructured<\/strong>\u00ad interviewer is free to ask different question of each person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Not as useful for researcher<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Give you a lot of information about that person<\/p>\n
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Advantage\u00ad deeper information \u2022 Disadvantage\u00ad can\u2019t compare to others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Observation<\/strong>\u00ad draw inferences from their behavior\n
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Needs to be methodical and use operational definitions<\/li>\n
Objective tests\/Inventories<\/strong>\u00ad standardized questionnaires that require written responses: MC\/TF<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Minnesota Multiphastic Personality Inventory\u00ad<\/strong> MMPI\u00ad<\/p>\n
most widely researched\/clinically used for self\u00adreport personality tests<\/p>\n
(550 items)<\/p>\n
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Hypochondrias<\/strong>\u00ad extreme body\/health concerns<\/li>\n
Depression<\/strong>\u00ad sadness, lack of self worth<\/li>\n
Hysteria<\/strong>\u00ad physical complaints to avoid responsibility<\/li>\n
Psychopathic Deviate<\/strong>\u00ad complete and extreme disregard for social\/moral rule o They know they are wrong, don\u2019t care<\/li>\n
Masculine\u00adFeminine<\/strong>\u00ad how well you accept extreme stereotypes\/gender roles<\/li>\n
Paranoia<\/strong>\u00ad OCD thoughts and behaviors<\/li>\n
Schizophrenia<\/strong>\u00ad lack of connection between thoughts and emotions<\/li>\n
Hypomania<\/strong>\u00ad over excitable, over activity<\/li>\n
Social Introversion<\/strong>\u00ad socially withdrawn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa MMPI has 3 scales to identify response sets<\/p>\n
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Lie score<\/strong>\u00ad indicates you are lying in order to make yourself look good\/socially acceptable<\/li>\n
Validity score<\/strong>\u00ad indicates a careless or random response pattern<\/li>\n
Correction Score<\/strong>\u00ad indicates the examinee is either trying to \u201cfake good\u201d or \u201cfake bad\u201d (mental health)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Empirical method for item inclusion<\/strong>\u00ad items were chose not based on theory, but based on their ability to discriminate among different psychiatric and normal populations (groups not theory)<\/p>\n
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Projective tests of personality<\/strong>\u00ad these tests include ambiguous stimuli that are intended to get a wide range of responses from examinees that must be interpreted<\/li>\n
Roschach Inkblot test<\/strong>\u00ad 10 bilaterally symmetrical inkblots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Scoring is very complex<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Disagreement over what parts of examines responses are most important<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Look for commonalities<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Lacks reliability and validity<\/p>\n
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Thematic Apperception Test<\/strong>\u00adTAT\u00ad 31 ambiguous pictures, ~10 are presented to examinee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Asked to make up a story to explain the picture<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Difficult of administer and interpret<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Lack reliability and validity<\/p>\n
\u00a0Theories of Personality: <\/u><\/p>\n
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Trait<\/strong>\u00ad a relatively stable\/consistent characteristic that can be used to describe someone o Early Trait Theories\n
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Gordon Alport<\/strong>\u00ad best way to understand personality was to study an individual and arrange their personality traits into a hierarchy with most important on top<\/li>\n
Raymond Catell<\/strong>\u00ad condensed list of traits to 30\u00ad35 traits using factor analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Factor analysis<\/strong>\u00ad statistical procedure for determining the most basic units or factors in a large array of data<\/p>\n
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Hans Eysneck<\/strong>\u00ad personality is a relationship between 3 traits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Extroversion\u00adIntroversion<\/strong><\/p>\n
\uf0fa Neuroticism<\/strong>\u00ad how much you control you have over emotional state<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Psychotism<\/strong>\u00ad how much in touch with reality you are<\/p>\n
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The \u201cBig Five\u201d Model<\/strong>\u00ad Costat\u00adMcCrae\u00ad most influential today\n
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Extraversion\/Surgency<\/strong>\u00ad talkative, energetic, assertive<\/li>\n
Agreeableness<\/strong>\u00ad sympathetic to needs to other people, kind, affectionate<\/li>\n
Conscientiousness<\/strong>\u00ad organized, thorough, planful, dependable (intellect or culture)<\/li>\n
neuroticism<\/strong>\u00ad tense, moody, anxious<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Sometimes reversed and called Emotional stability<\/p>\n
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Criticisms of trait theories:\n
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Lack of explanation<\/strong>\u00ad theories describe people but don\u2019t tell you why they are that way\/the development<\/li>\n
Stability Vs change<\/strong>\u00ad personality is relatively stable after 30, but theorists haven\u2019t told us which characteristics are stable and which are transient<\/li>\n
Situational determinants<\/strong>\u00ad some researchers believe you just cannon predict what people can do in any given situation\u00ad traits are meaningless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
Freud\u2019s Psychoanalytic Theory o Levels of consciousness<\/strong>\u00ad awareness of our own personality\n
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Conscious<\/strong>\u00ad thoughts\/motives person is currently aware of or is remembering right now (WM)<\/li>\n
Preconscious<\/strong>\u00ad thoughts\/motives that one can become aware of easily (long term memory)<\/li>\n
Unconscious<\/strong>\u00ad thoughts\/motives that lie beyond a person\u2019s normal awareness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Can be made available through psychoanalysis<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Can\u2019t become easily aware of having these<\/p>\n
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Personality structure\n
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The ID<\/strong>\u00ad most primitive part of personality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Pleasure principle\u00ad maximize pleasure, minimize pain \uf0a7 Superego<\/strong>\u00ad standards of right\/wrong, morality principle, conscience \uf0fa 2 parts:<\/p>\n
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Conscience<\/strong>\u00ad punitive, negative and critical part<\/li>\n
Ego Ideal<\/strong>\u00ad positive aspirations, more abstract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0Psychosexual Stages of Development \u00ad Freud<\/h2>\n
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Oral stage<\/strong>\u00ad birth to 12\u00ad18 months o Autoerotic<\/strong>\u00ad Babies spend a lot of time sucking their thumbs and fingers\n
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Fixation<\/strong>\u00ad idea that you are frustrated in some way at a particular level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa You have either been under\/overindulged in a particular stage<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Remain somewhat obsessed with pleasures of that stage<\/p>\n
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Regression<\/strong>\u00ad idea that you move past a particular stage of development then something traumatic happens then you regress back to pleasure of an earlier stage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa EX\u00ad mom has new baby and older child wants bottle back<\/p>\n
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Anal Stage<\/strong>\u00ad 12\u00ad18 months to 3 years o Child is occupied with retaining and\/or expelling feces\n
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Battles of the toilet bowl\u00ad toilet training o Anal expulsive<\/strong> (disorganized)\u00ad fight back by deliberately soiling themselves o Anal compulsive\/retentive<\/strong> (structured)\u00ad kids whose parents over praised them during this stage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
Phallic Stage<\/strong>\u00ad 3\u00ad6 years\u00adsource of pleasure is genitalia o Boy\u2019s Oedipal Crisis\u00ad experimenting with penis\n
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Freud says that sometimes during this stage, a young boy wants to have sex with mom but knows that his father has sex with mom and dad would be very<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
angry and cut off penis leading to Castration anxiety o Castration anxiety<\/strong>\u00ad formation of superego<\/p>\n
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Overcomes fear of father cutting off penis by spending time with his father and forms his superego to keep feelings at bay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Girl electra complex<\/strong>\u00ad feels incomplete because she doesn\u2019t have a penis\n
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Wants to sexually posses her father<\/li>\n
Penis envy\u00ad weaker superego (no castration anxiety)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
Latency stage<\/strong>\u00ad 6 to puberty\u00ad \u201cputting down\u201d urges\/impulses o Repression of sexual urges<\/li>\n
Genital stage<\/strong>\u00ad puberty onward\u00ad reawakening of sexual impulses<\/li>\n
Criticisms of Freud\u2019s Psychoanalytic theories o A lot of these are difficult to test<\/strong>\u00ad not good science\n
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Overemphasis on biology and unconscious forces<\/strong>\u00ad not enough societal and cultural forces<\/li>\n
Inadequate evidence<\/strong><\/li>\n
Sexism<\/strong>\u00ad Freud\u2019s theories were very sexist<\/li>\n
Lack of cross\u00adcultural support<\/strong>\u00ad don\u2019t\u2019 see a lot of these concepts in non\u00adWestern society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0Non\u00adFreudian Theorists<\/h2>\n
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Adler\u2019s Individual Psychology<\/strong>\u00adeach of us born into world with a sense of inferiority reinforced by our infancies o Striving for superiority\n
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Inferiority Complex<\/strong>\u00ad feelings of inferiority develop from early childhood experiences of helplessness\/incompetence<\/li>\n
Birth Order\n
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First born<\/strong>\u00ad important until other siblings arrive, King of the Hill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Often have greatest number of problems as they get olderdepression, anxiety<\/p>\n
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Middle born<\/strong>\u00ad dethrone first born, get a lot of attention from parents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa High need for superiority they attain through healthy competition<\/p>\n
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Youngest<\/strong>\u00ad least amount of power<\/li>\n
Only child<\/strong>\u00ad tend to spend a lot of time around adults which can lead to higher intellectual ability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa May be timid, passive, withdrawn<\/p>\n
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Carl Jung\u2019s Analytic Psychology<\/strong>\u00ad thought there was more to unconscious that Freud theorized o Freud\/Eros\u00ad impulses to build and create VS Thanantos\u00ad impulses to destruct, decay o Fears, behaviors, thoughts children and adults exhibit are remarkably similar across time and culture\n
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Collective unconscious<\/strong>\u00ad inherited unconsciousness all humans share o Archetypes<\/strong>\u00ad \u201cstock characters\u201d, images or patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior\n
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Reside in collective unconsciousness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\uf0fa Animus<\/strong>\u00ad masculine side of female<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Anima<\/strong>\u00ad feminine side of male<\/p>\n
\uf0fa Shadow<\/strong>\u00ad unconscious dark side, dark part of who we are<\/p>\n
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Horney\u2019s Feminine Psychology<\/strong>\u00ad big influence of feminism of 1970s, thought Freud was incredibly sexist o Countered Freud\u2019s Penis envy with Womb envy<\/strong>\u00ad man\u2019s envy of woman\u2019s ability to bear children\n
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Said that it wasn\u2019t biology and genital structure, but a societal\/cultural explanation of gender differences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a0Humanistic Theories<\/h2>\n
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Carl Rogers<\/strong>\u00ad most important aspect of personality is SELF\n
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Self<\/strong>\u00ad part of experience that a person comes to identify early in life as I or Me o Self\u00adconcepts<\/strong>\u00ad all the information and beliefs individuals have about their own nature, qualities, and behavior<\/li>\n
Poor Mental health occurred when there was a difference between our self\u00adconcepts and our actual life experiences\n
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Anorexia EX o Unconditional positive regard<\/strong>\u00ad positive behavior towards a person with no contingencies attached<\/li>\n
\u201cI like you\u2026period\u201d EX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
Abraham Maslow<\/strong>\u00ad focused on people\u2019s roads to self actualization<\/strong>\u00ad complete understanding of self<\/li>\n
Criticism:\n
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Na\u00efve assumptions<\/strong>\u00ad not everyone is striving to be best they can<\/li>\n
Poor testability and inadequate evidence<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Narrowness<\/strong>\u00ad describe different aspects of personality without explaining how it develops or came to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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