AP Psych 7.1 - Trait & Psychodynamic Theories of Personality

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Personality

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an individual's consistent characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

by adulthood, personality is viewed as relatively consistent

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Five Factor Model of Personality: Openness

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receptive to new ideas, broad in interests, enjoy new challenges

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Personality

an individual's consistent characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

by adulthood, personality is viewed as relatively consistent

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Five Factor Model of Personality: Openness

receptive to new ideas, broad in interests, enjoy new challenges

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Five Factor Model of Personality: Conscientiousness

responsible, organized, detail-orientated, disciplined

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Five Factor Model of Personality: Extraversion

outgoing, assertive, talkative, enjoy socializing and meeting people

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Five Factor Model of Personality: Agreeable

trusting, helpful, cooperative, warm, easy-going, dependable

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Five Factor Model of Personality: Neuroticism

insecure, moody, anxious, emotionally unstable, gets angry/worried/stressed easily

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Factor Analysis

statistical technique used to identify clusters of related info

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MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)

the most widely researched and clinically used personality inventory; contains true/false questions that are scored on a scale used to describe a person's mental processes and how they manage stress

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Advantages of trait theories

gives us terminology to describe behavior

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Disadvantages of trait theories

- overestimates the consistency of behavior from one situation to another (person-situation controversy)

- doesn't explain behavior

- doesn't create a unique description for everyone (like a horoscope) (Barnum Effect)

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Psychodynamic Theories

unconscious drives/impulses drive personality

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Defense Mechanisms

unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt resulting from unconscious conflict

protect the ego

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Denial

refusal to recognize or acknowledge a threatening situation

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Repression

"pushing" threatening or conflicting events or situations out of conscious memory

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Rationalization

making up acceptable excuses for unacceptable behavior

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Projection

placing one's own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts belonged to them and not to oneself

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Reaction Formation

forming an emotional reaction or attitude that is the opposite of one's threatening or unacceptable actual thoughts

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Displacement

expressing feelings that would be threatening if directed at the real target onto a less threatening substitute target

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Regression

falling back on childlike patterns as a way of coping with stressful situations

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Sublimation

turning socially unacceptable urges into socially acceptable behavior

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Projective Tests

participants respond to vague, ambiguous stimuli in ways that may reveal the subject's unconscious needs, feelings, & personality traits & can be analyzed in many different ways

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TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)

tell the story of a picture

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

shown a series of inkblots; respond to what you see