Personality Psych

Apophenia (Extreme Openness)

Tendency to Identify perceptual or casual patterns where none exist

Asorption (Fantasy)

Openness to absorbing/self-altering experiences

Awe (openness and aetheticism)

a mix of ecstasy and fear

Flow

regarded as the optimal human experience. ex. being in the zone

Insight

new, more effective interpretation appears in the mind. It often leads to sudden understanding or realization about oneself or a situation.

Intellect

typical or perceived intellectual behavior, intellectual confidence

Intelligence (G-Factor)

Maximal intellectual behavior

G-Factor

general ability to solve problems and predict many life outcomes

Intellect (I/O)

casual learning → structured, logical, and critical thinking that emphasizes reason, problem-solving, and intellectual engagement

Openness

Associational learning → seeing unexpected patterns, forming novel connections, embracing fantasy, art, beauty, and experiences

Id

unconscious, primal drives (pleasure principle)

Ego

Rational part of the psyche; mediated between id and superego (reality principle)

Superego

moral conscience; internalized societal rules

Libido

life drive (Eros), primarily sexual energy

Thanatos

Death drive; instinct toward aggression and self - destruction

Unconscious

Hidden drives and repressed conflicts influencing behavior

Individuation

Process of integrating conscious with unconscious, achieving self-unity and wholeness

Conceptualization of Psyche

personal unconscious (unique experiences) and collective unconscious (shared, ancestral memory), archetypes (uniersal symbols and patterns like hero, great mother, trickster)

Jonah Complex

Fear of achieving full potential; self sabotage

Self Actualized People

open, creative, accepting, altruistic, and fully engaged in life

Hedonic Theory

Presence of pleasure, absence of displeasure, satisfaction of life (intrinsic goods - aroused/pleasant)

Objective theories (Eudaimonic)

larger lists of intrinsic good, human nature to grow/develope (positive emotion)

desire satisfaction theories of wellbeing

people want different things, and getting what you want makes you happy

Value fulfillment theory

value ideals persistent goal (characteristic adaptatioin) people desire at least for its own sake, meaning it is intrinsically valued, not purely instrimental

Advantages of value fulfillment theory

Personalization

Less reliance on traits

Conflic and integration focus (realize conflicts between values and learn how to integrate)

Cultural and life story context (flexibility)

Compromise and adaptation

Psychodynamic (modernly)

keeps ideas of uncounscious conflict blocking fulfillment while emphasizing the role of conscious processes and interpersonal relationships in shaping personality and wellbeing.

Existentialist (Modernly)

Meaning-making is crucial - facing big things like conflict and freedom push people to fund personal meaning

Humanistic (modernly)

Growth, authenticity, and fulfilling potential in positive psychology. Idea that humans have a natural drive towards growth.

maladaptive traits

extreme versions of normal personality traits that become extremely dysfunctional

2 alternatives to personality disorders

self-and-other modeling disorders

interpersonal disorders

Self-motivational dysfunction

A person is unable to set or pursue meaningful life goals, leading to chronic aimlessness.

Affect dysfunction

A person has extreme emotional swings that disrupt their ability to maintain relationships.

Behavioral dysfunction

 A person repeatedly behaves aggressively in social settings, pushing others away even when seeking closeness.

Perceptual distortion of the self

A person sees themselves as either completely worthless or unrealistically grandiose, fluctuating between extremes.

perceptual distortion of the other person

A person inaccurately perceives others as consistently hostile or rejecting, even when they are not.