Human science Word Scramble
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What is Personality | Personality is a particular pattern of behaviour and thinking prevailing across time and situations that differentiates one person from another |
Personality types | are different categories into which personality characteristics can be assigned based on factors such as developmental experiences |
Personality traits | is an enduring personal characteristic that reveals itself in a particular pattern of behaviour in a variety of situations. this implies consistency |
Cardinal trait | this is the trait that dominates and shapes a persons behaviour |
Central Trait | this is a general charachteristic found in some degree in every person |
Secondary Trait | these are characteristics seen only in certain circumstances(such as particluar likes or dislikes that a very close friend may know) |
Source Traits | Cornerstones on which every personality is build |
Eysenck : 3 factors | Extoversion,neuroticism and psychoticism |
Costa, McCrae and Dye: 5 factors (super factors) | Neuroticism,extroversion,openness,agreeableness and conscientiousness |
Social congnitive theory on personality | the idea that both consequences of behaviour and an individuals beliefs about those consequences determine personality |
observational learning | Bandura role modelling creates personality |
Reciprocal determinism and self-efficacy | Behaviour, environmental variables and cognitive variables interact to determine personality |
Situationism | is a view of personality that regards behaviour as mostly a function of the situation, not of internal traits. we create our own situations |
Locus of control | is an individuals beliefs that the consequences of his or her actions are controlled by internal or by external variables |
psychodynamic approach to personality | id, ego and superego - freud |
Humanistic approach | Theory developed by maslow is really a theory of motivation based on needs and Carl Rogers condition of worth how we see ourselves is the central to personality development |
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