wk 3 cprofdev

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

It is the development of the organized pattern of behaviors and attitudes that makes a person distinctive

Personality

makes a person unique, and it is recognizable soon after birth.

temperament

the set of genetically determined traits that determine the child's approach to the world

environment

comes from adaptive patterns related to a child's specific environment.

character

set of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral patterns learned from experience that determines how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.

stage 1

infancy, basic trust or mistrust

Stage 2: Toddlerhood

well parented, tantrums, stubbornness and negatism

Stage 3: Pre-school

"play age"

uses imagination, broaden skills through active play and fantasy; dependent excessively on adults

Stage 4: School age

industry vs inferiority

Stage 5: Adolescence

Learning Identity or Identity

maturity starts to develop

Personality Disorder

Difficulty Dealing with other people, inflexible, rigid and unable to respond to the changes, difficulties in participating in social activities.

Northern Europe and Uniter State Countries

Individualistic culture

Asian, African, Central, and South American Countries

Community-Centered Cultures

Idiographic View

assumes that each person has a unique psychological structure and that some traits are possessed by only one person

Nomothetic View

emphasizes comparability among individuals. This viewpoint sees traits as having the same psychological meaning to everyone.

Freud's Theory

Psychosexual Development People are basically hedonistic. They are driven to seek pleasure by gratifying the id

Tripartite Theory

id, ego, superego

trait approach to personality

This means that traits should remain consistent across situations and over time but may vary between individuals.

Eysenck's Personality Theory

personality based on biological factors

Extraverts

sociable and crave excitement and change, and thus can become bored easily.

Introverts

are quiet and reserved.

Neuroticism

person's nervous system will generally be less reactive to stressful situations, remaining calm and levelheaded.

Psychoticism

lacks empathy, cruel, a loner, aggressive and troublesome.

Cattell's 16PF Trait Theory

disagreed with Eysenck's view

Allport's Trait Theory

the internal cognitive and motivational processes that influence behavior.

Authoritarian Personality

prejudice is the result of an individual's personality trait.