Term | Definition |
Introverts | Imaginative and look inward, more timid and to themselves, gets energy from being with themselves |
Extroverts | Active, self expressive and gain interaction with other people |
Ego | Reason and good sense |
Id | Basic drives |
Defense mechanisms | Methods the ego uses to avoid recognizing ideas/emotions causing personal anxiety |
Repression | Removing anxiety from conscious to unconscious |
Projection | Projecting your faults in other people |
Rationalization | To make good out of a situation |
Displacement | Take anger out of an object less intimidating |
Regression | Returning to an earlier stage of development to deal with stress |
Reaction formation: | Act the opposite of how to feel to keep your true feelings hidden |
Sublimation | Channel basic impulses into socially acceptable behavior
Ex: good student being agressive during football |
Collective unconscious | Store of human concepts shared by all people across cultures made of archetypes (Jung) |
Archetypes | Ideas and images of the accumulated experience in all humans (jung) |
Inferiority complex | Belief that people are motivated by a need to overcome inferiority, feelings of inadequacy, and insecurity (Adler) |
Socialization | Process where people learn the socially desirable behaviors of their particular cultures and adapt them as their own personalities (skinner) |
Self concept | View of one self as n individual (Rogers), key to happiness and healthy adjustment |
Congruence | Consistency between one self concept and ones experience, how you perceive yourself and how you reall are (Rogers) |
Acculturation | Process of adapting to a new culture |
First 3 Personalities | 1. Openness vs. closed: open to try new things, considers new ideas
2. Conscientiousness vs. carelessness: reliable, thorough, responsible
3. Extroversion vs. introversion: gets energized from interaction with other people |
Other 2 personalities | 4. Agreeable vs. disagreeable: east going, sees people's strengths
5. Neuroticism vs. emotional stability: unstable and has a difficulty controlling emotion |
Personality | Result of inner unconscious conflict between drives (psychoanalytic approach) |
3 parts of the mind | I'd, ego, superego |
Psychosexual development | 1. Oral: pleasure through your mouth
2. Anal: pleasure controlling bladder/bowel movement
3. Phallic: desire for the opposite sex parent
4. Latent: sexual termoil (confusion)
5. Genial: adolescence sexual maturity
(Freud) |
Fixation | Something that's not really right, affected from birth (Freud) |
Anal retentive | Have perfectionist personalities |
Anal expulsive | Messy unreliable personalities |
Suppression | Push painful events out of conscious |
Acculturation | Process of adapting to a new or different culture (sociocultural) |
Pattern of acculturation | 1. Complete assimilation: taking anew culture
2. Maintains separation: retain original customs, never totally comfortable
3. Biculturalism: successfully integrating both sets |
Self actualization | Reaching for your potential, search for self atuslization motivates us and determines personality (human approach) , discovering genuine feelings and acting upon them |
Self theory | People constantly shape their personalities (Rogers) |
Behaviorism/ sternly forces | Shape behavior/ personality, environment shapes us through reinforcement, we aren't free because society shaped our goals/ desires (learning approach) (Skinner) |
Social learning | Behavior or personality is based on observational learning and internal factors
- interpretation of what you learn influenced by skills, values, goals (learning approach) |
Self efficiency | Beliefs about your own abilities |
Learning approach | Behavior is personality, personality is learned, don't fully explain differences in personality |
Freud | Id, super ego, ego, in the unconscious, psychosexual stages, defines mechanisms, personalities formed at 5 |
Horney | Womb envy where men are jealous of women, basic anxiety that disturbs or security during childhood |
Erikson | Development based on social relationships, identity vs. role confusion, 8 stages of psychosocial development |
Adler | Basic complex= inferiority, people should have feeling of frailty and incompetence, have to develop style of life, people motivated by fictional finalisms, birth order influenced personality |
Jung | Collective unconscious, archetypes, individuation, extroversion, introversion, why people operated |
Fictional finalisms | Importance of a persons past (Adler) |
Individuation | Stabilizing of personality (Jung) |