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Personality

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A distinctive pattern of behavior, thoughts, motives, and emotions that characterizes an individual over time.

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Habitual ways of behavior, thinking and feeling. Examples: shy, brave, reliable, friendly, hostile, confident and so on. 10- 3

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Biological perspective- Qualities are genetically influenced and remain throughout life. Learning Perspective- People are influenced more by their learning histories and immediate circumstances.

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Cognitive Perspective- Emphasizes perceptions influence on personality. Socio-Cultural Perspective- Traces cultural origins of traits and typical ways of behavior. Psychodynamic Perspective- Search for personality in the dark, unconscious recesses of ones mind.

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Most have 5-10 central traits that reflect a characteristic of behaving, dealing with others, and reacting to new situations. Example: Some see the world as a hostile, dangerous placesome see it as fun.

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More changeable aspects of personality, such as musical preferences, habits, casual opinions and the like.

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Warmth Intellect Emotional StabilityAggressiveness LivelinessDutifulness Social Assertiveness Sensitivity ParanoiaAbstractness IntroversionAnxiety Open-mindednessIndependence PerfectionismTension

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Researchers took Raymond Cattell and Gordon Allports research and theories on personality and came up with Five Dimensions of Personality 10- 10

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Extent to which people are outgoing or shy. Includes such traits as being talkative or silent; sociable or reclusive; adventurous or cautious, eager to be in the limelight or stay in the shadows. 10- 11

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Means negative emotionality. Includes traits such as anxiety, inability to control impulses, tendency to feel negative emotions such as anger, guilt, and resentment. 10- 12

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Neurotic people are worriers, complainers and defeatists. 10- 13

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This personality dimension includes attributes such as trust, kindness, affection, and other pro-social behaviors. 10- 14

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One would be good-natured, gentle and cooperative. If they do not have a high level of agreeableness they can be irritable, headstrong, and/or abrasive. 10- 15

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Degree to which people are responsible. What does it look like: Responsible, persevering and steadfast. If they are not conscientious they would be more quick to give up, fickle, and/or undependable. 10- 16

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The extent to which people are original, imaginative, artistic and/or capable of creative thinking. 10- 17

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Competitive, workaholic, perfectionist 10- 18

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Id: The collection of unconscious urges and desires that continually seek expression. Ego: The part of the personality that mediates between the demands of reality, the id, and superego. Superego: The social and parental standards the individual has internalized. \ 10- 19

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Id: The collection of unconscious urges and desires that continually seek expression. Ego: The part of the personality that mediates between the demands of reality, the id, and superego. Superego: The social and parental standards the individual has internalized. 10- 20

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Source of all energy Functions entirely in unconscious Pleasure principle: The way the id seeks immediate gratification of an instinct. 10- 21

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Operates at all three levels Reality principle: The way in which the ego seeks to satisfy instinctual demands safely and effectively in the real world. 10- 22

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Can keep things in check The superego strives toward perfection, which is unrealistic. Can result in guild feelings 10- 23

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Psychodynamic theories of personality consider behavior to be the result of psychological dynamics within the individual. Often these dynamics are unconscious processes. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 26

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Sigmund Freud Carl Jung Alfred Adler Karen Horney Erik Erikson Prentice Hall 2003 10- 27

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Conscious: Ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are aware. Preconscious: Material that can be easily recalled. Unconscious: All the ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are not and normally cannot become aware. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 28

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Id: The collection of unconscious urges and desires that continually seek expression. Ego: The part of the personality that mediates between the demands of reality, the id, and superego. Superego: The social and parental standards the individual has internalized. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 29

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Source of all energy Functions entirely in unconscious Pleasure principle: The way the id seeks immediate gratification of an instinct. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 30

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Operates at all three levels Reality principle: The way in which the ego seeks to satisfy instinctual demands safely and effectively in the real world. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 31

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Operates at all three levels The superego strives toward perfection, which is unrealistic. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 32

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Ego-ideal: The rules for good behavior and standards of excellence towards which the ego must strive. Conscience: The rules about what behaviors are bad. The conscience uses guilt as punishment for bad behavior. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 34

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Personal unconscious: Contains the individuals repressed thoughts, forgotten experiences, and undeveloped ideas Collective unconscious: The part of the unconscious that is inherited and common to all members of a species Prentice Hall 2003 10- 36

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The thought forms common to all human beings. Archetypes are stored in the collective unconscious. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 37

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Mother: A protective presence Hero: One who overcomes Persona: Our public self Prentice Hall 2003 10- 38

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Extrovert: One who focuses more on social life and the external world instead of his/her own thoughts and feelings. Introvert: One who focuses on his/her own thoughts and feelings. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 39

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Rational: One who regulates his/her actions by thinking and feeling. Irrational: One who bases his/her actions on perceptions, either through the senses or unconscious processes (intuition). Prentice Hall 2003 10- 40

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Freud Stressed the primacy of sexual instincts Development is shaped in childhood Jung Stressed peoples rational & spiritual qualities Development only comes to fruition during middle adulthood Prentice Hall 2003 10- 41

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Compensation: Ones effort to overcome imagined or real personal weaknesses Inferiority complex: Fixation on feelings of personal inferiority that results in emotional and social paralysis Prentice Hall 2003 10- 42

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Freud We are controlled by our environment View of individual: selfish; Eternally in conflict with society Adler We can control our own fate View of individual: striving for perfection; Develops socially constructive goals Prentice Hall 2003 10- 43

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Trust vs. Mistrust (first year of life) Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt (ages 1- 3) Initiative vs. Guilt (ages 3-6) Industry vs. Inferiority (ages 6-13) Identity vs. Role confusion (puberty) Intimacy vs. Isolation (young adulthood) Generativity vs. Stagnation (ages 25-60) Integrity vs. Despair (ages 60 and up) Prentice Hall 2003 10- 44

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Trust Faith in the predictability of the environment Optimism about the future Mistrust Suspicious, fearful, and overly concerned with security Prentice Hall 2003 10- 45

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Autonomy Gain control over bodily functions and coordination Shame & doubt Self-doubt about ability to control body Hostile rejection of all controls (internal & external) Prentice Hall 2003 10- 46

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Initiative Parental support for trying new things leads to joy in exercising initiative and taking on new challenges Guilt Feelings of guilt, unworthiness, and resentment may occur if scolded for exercising initiative Prentice Hall 2003 10- 47

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Industry Learning the skills of personal care, productive work, & independent living Inferiority Failure to learn these skills leads to feelings of mediocrity, inadequacy, and low self-sufficiency Prentice Hall 2003 10- 48

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Identity Integration of ones roles in life into a coherent pattern Role confusion Failure to integrate these roles leads to a lack of personal identity and despair Prentice Hall 2003 10- 49

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Intimacy In order to love another, one must have resolved all earlier crises Isolation Failure at intimacy brings a painful sense of loneliness and incompleteness Prentice Hall 2003 10- 50

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Generativity Experience meaning and joy in all the major activities of life Stagnation Failure to remain productive and creative Life becomes a drab routine Feelings of dullness and resentfulness Prentice Hall 2003 10- 51

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Integrity Acceptance of ones life; A sense that it is complete and satisfactory Little fear of approaching death Despair Despair at the loss of former roles and missed opportunities Fear approaching death Prentice Hall 2003 10- 52

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Any personality theory that asserts the fundamental goodness of people and their striving toward higher levels of functioning. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 53

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Actualizing tendency: The drive of every organism to fulfill its biological potential and become what it is inherently capable of becoming. Self-actualizing tendency: The drive of human beings to fulfill their self- concepts. Fully functioning person: An individual whose self-concept closely resembles his/her inborn potentials. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 54

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Unconditional positive regard: The full acceptance and love of another person regardless of that persons behavior. Conditional positive regard: Acceptance and love that are dependent on behaving in certain ways and fulfilling certain conditions. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 55

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Personality traits: Dimensions or characteristics on which people differ in distinctive ways. Trait theories focus on describing ones current personality with less emphasis on how the personality developed. Prentice Hall 2003 10- 56

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