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12 Personality

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• Personality   A person’s unique long-term pattern of thinking, emotion, and behaviour; the consistency of who you are, have been, and will become  
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• Personality traits   Stable qualities that a person shows in most situations  
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• Character   Personal characteristics that have been judged or evaluated; desirable or undesirable qualities  
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• Personality theory   System of concepts, assumptions, ideas, and principles proposed to explain personality  
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• Trait theories   Attempt to learn what traits make up personality and how they relate to actual behaviour  
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• Psychodynamic theories   Focus on the inner workings of personality, especially internal conflicts and struggles  
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• Behaviouristic and Social Learning theories   Focus on external environment and on effects of conditioning and learning. Attribute difference in personality to socialization, expectations, and mental processes  
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• Humanistic theories   Focus on private, subjective experience and personal growth  
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• Common traits   Characteristics shared by most members of a culture  
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• Individual traits   Define a person’s unique personal qualities  
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• Cardinal traits   So basic that these traits dominate an individual’s whole life, often to the point that the person becomes known specifically for these traits, eg. Freudian, Machiavellian etc.  
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• Central traits   Core qualities of a personality. These are the major characteristics you might use to describe another person. Eg. intelligent, honest, shy, anxious etc.  
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• Secondary traits   Inconsistent or superficial aspects of a person. These traits are sometimes related to attitudes or preferences and often appear only in certain situations or under specific circumstances (e.g., getting anxious when speaking to a group etc.)  
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• Surface traits   Features that make up the visible features of personality  
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• Source traits   Underlying characteristics of a personality  
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• Trait profile   Graph of the scores on several personality traits  
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person-situation debate   is about the relative power of personality traits as compared to situational influences on behaviour.  
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situationists   argued that the situation more strongly influences the person compared to their personality traits, ie., someone who is extremely talkative at one specific party may sometimes be resistant to speak up during class or at a different party.  
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1. Openness to experience   tolerance for new ideas and new ways of doing things, experientially oriented  
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2. Conscientiousness   degree of organisation, preference for goal  
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3. Extraversion   preference for social interaction, activity for activity's sake  
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4. Agreeableness   orientation toward compassion and caring about others, and away from antagonism  
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5. Neuroticism   tendency toward negative emotionality, instability, inability to cope  
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• Conscious   Everything you are aware of at a given moment including thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and memories  
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• Preconscious   Material that can easily be brought into awareness  
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• Unconscious   Holds repressed memories and emotions and the id’s instinctual drives  
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory   The Id  
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory   The Ego  
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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory   The Superego  
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• Neurotic anxiety   Caused by id impulses that the ego can barely control  
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• Moral anxiety   Comes from threats of punishment from the superego  
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• Fixation   Unresolved conflict or emotional hang-up caused by overindulgence or frustration  
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• Oral dependent personality   Gullible, passive, and need lots of attention. Fixations create oral-aggressive adults who like to argue and exploit others  
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• Anal retentive   Stubborn, stingy, orderly, and compulsively clean  
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• Anal expulsive   Disorderly, messy, destructive, or cruel  
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• Oedipus conflict   Boy attracted to mother  
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• Electra conflict   Girl attracted to father  
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• Genital stage   Puberty onwards. Realization of full adult sexuality occurs here; sexual urges re-awaken  
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• Psychological situation   How the person interprets or defines the situation  
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• Expectancy   Anticipation that making a response will lead to a particular reinforcement  
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• Self-efficacy (by Bandura)   Belief in your capacity to produce a desired result  
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• Social reinforcement   Praise, attention, approval, and/or affection from others  
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• Identification   Feeling emotionally connected to admired adults  
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• Imitation   Desire to act like an admired person  
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Humanism   • Approach that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals  
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• Free choice   Ability to choose that is NOT controlled by genetics, learning, or unconscious forces  
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• Self-actualization   Process of fully developing personal potentials  
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• Self   Flexible and changing perception of one’s identity  
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• Self-image   Total subjective perception of your body and personality  
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• Incongruence   Exists when there is a discrepancy between one’s experiences and self-image. The goal was to achieve congruence  
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• Ideal self   Idealized image of oneself (the person one would like to be)  
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• Possible self   Collection of thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and images concerning the person one could become  
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• Positive self-regard   Thinking of oneself as a good, lovable, worthwhile person  
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• Unconditional positive regard   Unshakable love and approval for oneself and others  
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• Interview (personality)   Face-to-face meeting designed to gain information about someone’s personality, current psychological state, or personal history  
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• Direct observation   Assessing behaviour through direct surveillance  
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• Personality questionnaire   Paper-and-pencil measure consisting of questions that reveal personality aspects  
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• Rorschach technique   Contains 10 standardized inkblots (the “inkblot” test)  
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• Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)   Projective device consisting of 20 drawings of various situations; people must make up stories about the drawings  
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