Chapter 11 Psych Notes

What is personality?

An individual’s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

what is the psychoanalytic perspective on personality?

emphasizes the importance of unconscious processes and the influence of early childhood experiences. It’s separated into three categories

how do we process info on 3 levels?

• Id-processed in an unconscious, irrational/impulsive part of personality

• Superego-preconscious moralistic/judgmental part of personality

• Ego-conscious, rational part of personality

which steps are in psychosexual stages of development?

oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

what are psychosexual stages?

age-related developmental periods in which the child’s sexual impulses are focused on different body areas and are expressed through the activities associated with those areas.

what is humanistic psychology?

the view of personality that emphasizes the inherent goodness of people, human potential, self-actualization, the self-concept, and healthy personality development

what is unconditional positive regard?

the view of personality that emphasizes the inherent goodness of people, human potential, self-actualization, the self-concept, and healthy personality development.

what is conditional positive regard?

the sense that the child is valued and loved only when they behave in a way that is acceptable to others.

what is the social cognitive perspective on personality?

The idea that a person’s conscious thought processes in different situations strongly influence their actions is one important characteristic.

what is a trait?

a relatively stable, enduring predisposition to consistently behave in a certain way.

surface traits are….

easily inferred from observable behaviors

source traits are…

the broad, basic traits that are hypothesized to be universal and relatively few in number.

16 Personality Test:

16 traits that person’s score represents a balance between 2 extremes

Hans Eysnacks’ Theory

• This is a 4 factor theory

• Introverted-Extroverted

• Neuroticism-Emotional stability

• Creates 2 x 2 square of personality

HEXACO Model of Personality

(H)onesty–humility, (E)motionality, e(X)traversion, (A)greeableness, (C)onscientiousness, and (O)penness to experience.

what can the HEXACO model do?

• Accounts for “dark triad”-cluster of traits that characterize people who are

more likely than others to cause harm and create societal problems

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• As well as “light triad” – cluster of traits that value the worth of every person