Psychology of personality -test one

Biological

Inherited predispositions and physiological processes

Humanistic

Personal responsibility and feelings of self-acceptance

Psychoanalytic personality

Unconscious mind is responsible for important differences in behavior styles

Trait

An individual lies along a contin um of various personality characteristics

Behavior/social learning

Consistent behavior pattern are the result of conditioning and expectations

Cognitive

People process information to explain the differences in behavior

Psychoanalytic approach's explanation

People possess an unconscious desire to self destruct

Trait approach's explanation

Focuses on individual differences and the stability of aggressive behavior

Biological approach's explanation

Genetic predisposition toward aggression

Humanistic approach's explanation

People are basically good, aggression arises when natural growth process is interfered

Behavioral/social approach's explanation

People learn to be aggressive

Cognitive approach's explanation

Certain cues in the environment trigger a network of aggressive thoughts and emotions

Projection

Seeing ones traits in other people

Displacement

Altering the target of an impulse Example someone who hates their dad may shift it to hate authority figures

Isolation

Involves creating a mental gap between threatening cognition and other thoughts by taking a pause in speaking

sublimation

Involves expressing a instinct in a manner in which shows no relation to its original form

Denial

Denying all physical facts of evidence

. Reaction formation

Converting a socially acceptable impulse into it's opposite