Which approach to personality emphasizes a desire to achieve higher levels of functioning?

The pattern of enduring characteristics that produce consistency and individually in a given person

Psychodynamic approaches to personality

Based on the idea that personality is primarily unconscious and motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness

Pioneer of psychodynamic approach/psychoanalytic theory

Unconscious forces act as determinants of personality

Relates to an iceberg
Conscious level

Preconscious/subconscious

Unconscious

What you're aware of

Thoughts and perceptions

Preconscious/subconscious

Memories and stored knowledge

A part of the personality that contains the memories, knowledge, beliefs, feelings, urges, drives, and instinct of which the individual is not aware

How we study the unconscious

Freudian slip
Dream analysis
Free association

Clue into what is really going on in the unconscious (generally sexual)

Symbol for what is buried in your unconscious

Freely talking, eventually unconscious thoughts come out

Components of personality

Inborn
Operates on the pleasure principle
No regard for morality, all about you

Operates on the reality principle
Realistic

Conscience, reflection of societal norms and morality, but not realistic

Prevents us from behaving in morally improper way by making us feel guilty if we do wrong

Conflicts or concerns that persist beyond the development period in which they first occur

Freud
Developmental periods that children pass through during which they encounter conflicts between the demands of society and their own sexual urges
Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

0-1
Mouth lips
Weaning off of breast feeding
Smoking, overeating

1- 3 years
Anus
Gratification from expelling and withholding feces; coming to terms with society's controls relating to toilet training
Orderliness/messiness

3-6 years
Genitals
Interest in generals, coming to terms with Oedipal conflict leading to identification with same sex parent
No adult fixation

Children's intense, sexual interest in his or her opposite-sex parents

6-12 years
No erogenous zone
Sexual concerns largely unimportant, develop defense mechanisms
Deviancy, sexual dysfunction

12 to adulthood
Genitals
Reemergence of sexual interests and establishment of mature sexual relationships
Sexually mature and mentally healthy

Process of wanting to be like another person as much as possible, imitating that person's behavior and adopting similar beliefs and values

Repression
Regression
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Displacement
Denial
Projection
Sublimation

Ego pushes the unacceptable or unpleasant thoughts and impulses out of consciousness but maintains them in the unconscious

Give an explanation that makes it okay

Expressing the opposition of how you feel on the inside

Take it out on someone/thing else

Don't want to admit it/feel that way

Put how you feel on someone else
(Cheater accusing their significant other of being the cheater)

Socially acceptable outlet for something unacceptable
Football

Freud theory, unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by distorting reality and concealing the source of the anxiety from themselves

Neo-Freudian psychoanalyst

Psychoanalysts who were trained in traditional Freudian theory but who later rejected some of its major points

3 Neo-Freudian psychoanalysts

Carl jung
Karen horney
Alfred Adler

Carl Jung
Additional layer even deeper than the unconscious
Born with it
An inherited set of ideas, feelings, images, and symbols that are shared with all humans because of our common ancestral past

(Collective unconscious)
According to jung, universal symbolic representations of particular types of people, objects, ideas, or experiences
Universal representations

Which contains reflections of our ancestors relationships with mother figures, is suggested by the prevalence of mothers in art, religion, literature, and mythology

Stressed the important of culture and advocated for woman (no penis envy)

Discussed inferiority complex

Describing adults who have not been able to overcome the feelings of inadequacy they developed as children

Consistent, habitual personality characteristics and behaviors that are displayed across different situations

Allport
Cattell
Eysenck
Personality approach that seeks to identify the basic traits necessary to describe personality

Identified 1000s of personality traits grouping them into 3 groups
Cardinal
Central
Secondary

SINGLE characteristic/most important trait that directs most of a person's activities
Ex- directing all energy toward humanitarian activities

Ex- honesty and sociability
Few important personality traits
An individuals major characteristics
Number from 5-10 in a person

Situational. Only act that way sometimes

16 personality traits. Spectrum that can be high/low

Based on 3 things PEN
Psychoticism- distort reality
Extraversion- sociability; how much you like being around others
Neuroticism- emotional stability

The big 5 personality traits

OCEAN

Openness to experience Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism (emotional stability)

Seeking new experiences
Examples:
Independent vs conforming
Imaginative vs practical

examples
Careful vs careless
Discipline vs impulsive

Like to be around others
Examples
Talkative vs quiet

Adjust behavior to suit others
Sympathetic vs fault finding
Kind vs cold

Trait of being emotional
Stable vs tense
Calm vs anxious

Problem with trait approaches

Even if you find a label, you don't have an explanation of that behavior

Social cognitive approach to personality

Theories that emphasize the influence of a person's cognition- thoughts, feelings, expectations, and values- as well as observation of others behavior, in determining personality

Personality can be modified through learning new behavior patterns

Emphasized observational learning
Self-efficacy

The belief that we can master a situation and produce positive outcomes

Personality cannot be considered without taking the particular context of the situation into account

Cognitive-affective processing system (CAPS)

People's thoughts and emotions about themselves and the world determine how they view, and then react, in particular situations

The component of personality that compasses our positive and negative self-evaluations

Sense of success in forming close bonds with other people

Biological/ Evolutionary approaches to personality

Tellegen- twin studies and genetic evidence for personality
Important components of personality are inherited

Maslow and Rogers
Focused on the conscious
Free will and interaction
Modifiability

The degree to which a person assumes mastery and leadership roles in social situations

Tendency to follow authority

Social potency and traditionalism

Have particularly strong genetic components, whereas achievement and closeness had relatively weak genetic components

Individuals behavior style and characteristic way of responding

Feels vulnerable and sensitive; given to worrying and easily upset

Vivid imagination readily captured by rich experience; relinquishes sense of reality

Feels mistreated and used, that "the world is out to get me"

Shuns the excitement of risk and danger; prefers the safe route even if it's tedious

Psychically aggressive and vindictive; has taste for violence. Is "out to get the world"

Works hard; strives for mastery; puts work and accomplishment ahead of other things

Cautious and plodding; rational and sensible; likes carefully planned events

Prefers emotional intimacy and close ties: turns to other for comfort and help

Humanistic approach to personality

Rogers and Maslow
Theories that emphasize people's intimate goodness and desire to achieve higher levels of functioning

A state of self-fulfillment in which people realize their highest potential in a unique way

The set of beliefs and perceptions people hold about their own abilities, behavior , and personality

Unconditional positive regard

Refers to an attitude of acceptance and respect on the observers part, no matter what a person says or does. Grow and evolve cognitively and emotionally

Conditional positive regard

-Freud
-Emphases unconscious
-Stresses inherited structure of personality while emphasize importance of childhood experience
-Stressed determinism (view that behavior is directed and caused by factors out of ones control)
-Emphasizes the stability of characteristics throughout a person's life

-Allport, Cattell, Eysenck
-Disregards conscious and unconscious
-Approaches vary
-Stresses determinism
-Emphasizes the stability of characteristics throughout a person's life

-Skinner
-Disregards conscious and unconscious
-Focuses on environment
-Stresses determinism
-Stresses that personality remains flexible and resilient throughout ones life

Biological and evolutionary approach

-Disregards conscious and unconscious
-Stresses the innate, inherited determinants of personality
-Stresses determinism
-Emphasizes the stability of characteristic through a person's life

-Maslow and Rogers
-Stresses the conscious more than unconscious
-Stresses interaction between nature and nurture
-Stresses the freedom of individuals to make their own choices
-stresses that personality remains flexible and resilient throughout ones life

Standard measures devised to asses behavior objectively; uses to help people make decisions about their lives and understand more about themselves

Refers to a tests measurement consistency

When they actually measure what they are designed to measure

The average performance of a large sample of individuals that permit the comparison of one person's score on a test with the scores of others who have taken the same test

An individual's tendency to accept concepts personally no matter how vague and generalized they may be

Horoscopes

Types of personality assessments

Self report measure
Projective methods
Behavioral assessment

People are asked questions about their own behaviors and traits

MMPI2

Minnesota Multiphasic personality inventory-2- MMPI2

Widely used self-report test that identifies people with psychological difficulties and is employed to predict some everyday behaviors

A technique used to validate questions in personality tests by studying the responses of people with known diagnoses

Through Freudian perspective, give ambiguous stimulus and say what you see
Rorschach
Thematic Apperception test (TAT)

Test that involves showing a series of symmetrical visual stimuli to people who then are asked what the figures represent to them
Ink blots

Thematic apperception Test (TAT)

Given picture and tell a story from it

Observable and measurable
Direct measures of an individual's behavior designed to describe characteristics indicative of personality

Natural observation

Which of the following approaches to personality emphasizes the role played by self efficiency?

Social Cognitive Perspective Albert Bandura: Emphasized the importance of social learning, or learning through observation. His theory emphasized the role of conscious thoughts including self-efficacy, or our own beliefs in our abilities.

Which approaches to personality emphasize the influence of thoughts feelings expectations and values?

social cognitive approaches to personality Theories that emphasize the influence of a person's cognitions-thoughts, feelings, expectations, and values-as well as observation of others' behavior, in determining personality.

Which approaches to personality are based on the idea that personality is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness or control?

Psychodynamic approaches to personality are based on the idea that personality is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness and over which they have no control.

Which of the following is a strong advantage of the trait approach to personality quizlet?

Which of the following is a strong advantage of the trait approach to personality? It provides a clear, straightforward description of people's behavior patterns. A critique of the humanistic approach is that humanism's assertion that people are good _____.