theories of personality

chapter 1 to 3

personality

originates from the latin word persona, which refers to a theatrical mask worn by actors in roman drama

a theory

it is a set of related assumptions used to formulate testable hypotheses

true

true or false

a theory is broader than a hypothesis

true

true or false

one theory can generate multiple hypotheses. while a theory is a set of assumption, a hypothesis is a specific educated guess or prediction that can be tested (it is waiting to be tested)

false

true or false

one theory cannot generate multiple hypotheses. while a theory is a set of assumption, a hypothesis is a specific educated guess or prediction that can be tested (it is waiting to be tested)

psychodynamic

Personality is influenced by unconscious motives and past experiences we’re often not aware of.

behaviorism

Personality is your behavior and is repeated through conditioning and reinforcement.

Humanistic-Existential

personality is shaped by how we create meaning and make choices in an uncertain world

Dispositional/Trait

Personality is made up of consistent traits that influence behavior across situations.

Biological-Evolutionary

Personality has a biological basis and evolved because certain traits were adaptive

cognitive

Personality is shaped by how we think, interpret experiences, and process information.

may 6, 1856 in moravia

when and where was sigmund freud born

20 years

how many age gap did his parents have

a loving and protective mom and a authoritarian dad

what type of mom and dad did he have

superiority feeling

what type of feeling did sigmund freud have growing up

left him with germs of guilt because of his ill wishes

what did sigmund freud’s younger brother who died made him feel

fame

what was sigmund freud’s primary goal

he believed he could be a researcher later one which woukd make him famous

why did sigmund freud go to med school

due to limited opportunities as a jew and elderly fathers funds

why did sigmund freud work in a private practice

it was rebuffed as it was common knowledge among physicians he also lied in his auto biography and said that the physicians were close minded

when freud presented his paper about male hysteria in imperial society of physicians of vienna why was it rebuffed

he believed that sexual conflicts were the primary cause of all neurosis

seduction theory, during his middle age what did he believe

he claimed majority of his woan patients were seduced, raped/assulted in childhood

seduction theory

what did he claim about his woman patients

he belived that sex contaminates mind and body, wife too fertile, doesnt like wearing condoms

frueds sex life

he died in 1923, had 33 operations for mouth cancer cause he was smoking 20 cigs daily he was 83.

when did sigmund freud died and what was the reason

the unconscious

contains drives, urges, instincts mostly sexual and aggressive in nature that are beyond our awareness but nevertheless motivate most of our words, feelings and actions

repression

blocking out of anxiety ridden experiences into the unconscious as a defense against the pain or anxiety

phylogenetic endowment

consists of inherited experiences that lie beyond an individual’s personal experience

conscious perception

transitory period, free from anxiety

unconsciousness

passed the primary sensor, distorted

preconscious

contains images that are not in awareness but that can become conscious either quite easily or with some level of difficutly

conscious perception outer, unconscious

consciousness contains images from: