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PSY
personality
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| how to we study personality? (2 ways) | objective and projectively |
| objective: | right and wrong answer; easy to score |
| example of objective technique: | MMPI |
| concern with body functions; obsessed; fake sickness, etc. | hypochondriasis |
| pessimism, hopelessness | depression |
| disregard social norms, emotional shallowness; don't care about others at all | psychopathic deviate |
| delusions; overly-suspicious | paranoia |
| excessive guilt, worry, and anxiety | psychasthenia |
| bizarre thoughts and perceptions | schizophrenia |
| excessive activity, excitement, and impulsiveness | hypomania |
| shyness, insecurity | social introversion |
| CPI | california psychological inventory |
| CPI vs. MMPI | CPI taken on west coast, MMPI taken in midwest |
| Projective techniques: | Rorschach Inkblot test |
| Trait theories: describing personality (2 ppl) | Cattell and McCrae & Costa |
| What did Cattell do? | used factor analysis to sort out 18,000 words to describe someone's personality (got down to 16 source traits) |
| What did McCrae and Costa do? | narrowed Cattell's down to 5 |
| What are the 5 Robust factors? | CANOE: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, oppenness to experience, extroversion |
| Conscientiousness | careful, reliable |
| agreeableness: | good-natured, not selfish |
| neuroticism | emotional stability/worrying |
| openness to experience: | daring, original |
| extroversion: | sociable, talkative |
| Psychoanalytic approach: | messages from the unconscious |
| personality (DEF) | a unique and relatively stable pattern of behavior, thoughts and feelings |
| which researchers are considered Trait Theorists? | McCrae and Costa |
| What is Freud's view of the human mind? | The Mental Iceberg |
| what are the three level's of Freud's Iceberg? | conscious, preconscious and unconscious |
| according to Freud, the Ego tried to protect itself by: | using defense mechanisms |
| what are Freud's 8 defense mechanisms? | repression, rationalization, displacement, projection, regression, sublimation, reaction formation, and intellectualization |
| repression: | forgetting or pushing from consciousness unacceptable impulses |
| rationalization: | coming up with socially acceptable reasons for actions |
| displacement: | redirection of an emotional response from a dangerous to safe object |
| projection: | transfer to others of unacceptable motives |
| regression: | respond to a threatening situation by going to an earlier age |
| sublimation: | impulses channeled into socially acceptable forms of behavior |
| reaction formation: | act in a manner directly opposite to their wishes |
| intellectualization: | trying to use your intellect and cognitive ability to make sense of something that you did wrong |
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