Personality Psychology Flashcards

Flashcards of vocabulary terms from the lecture notes.

Morphogenic Science

Studying single people, promoted by Gordon Allport.

Personal Dispositions

Generalized neuropsychic structure particular to the individual that makes an individual who they are.

Cardinal Disposition

A dominant personal disposition that can be seen in every behavior (unlikely).

Central Disposition

5-10 individual traits around which a person’s life focuses.

Secondary Disposition

Least characteristic and reliable personal disposition that can show up in certain situations.

Motivational Dispositions

Derived from basic needs and drives; intensely felt; initiate actions.

Stylistic Dispositions

Less intense but still motivating, guide our actions.

Proprium

Characteristics that people see as particularly their own How we understand ourselves.

Peripheral Motivations

Motives that aim to reduce a need.

Propriate Strivings

Motives that seek to maintain tension and disequilibrium (helps with growth).

Functional Autonomy

Tendency for some motives to become independent from the original motive responsible for the behavior.

Perseverative Functional Autonomy

Habits that continue in spite of their initial motivator (addictions).

Propriate Functional Autonomy

Self-sustaining motives related to the proprium that support underlying values.

Extrinsic Religious Orientation

Using religion as a means to an end, often utilitarian.

Intrinsic Religious Orientation

Finding life meaning through faith and connecting needs to faith.

Type (Eysenck)

A cluster or primary traits. SUPERFACTOR

Eysenck's Factor E

Extraversion. Extroverts have sociability, impulsiveness and quick wit. Introverts have unsociability and caution.

Eysenck's Factor N

Neuroticism. More prone to anxiety, hysteria, OCD, criminality. Low score means better at handling stress.

Eysenck's Factor P

Psychoticism. Higher scores = psychotic, hostile, self-centered, impulsive.

FFM

Five Factor Model - only the five traits.

FFT

Five Factor Theory - McCrae and Costas theory for assessing personality

CAPS Model

Cognitive-Affective Personality System. Focuses on psychological features of situations and 'if-then' profiles.

Manifest Content

Surface meaning or conscious description of the dream.

Latent Content

The underlying, unconscious meaning of a dream revealed via dream interpretation.

Dreamwork

Exploration of the images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes.

Striving for Success/Superiority (Adler)

One dynamic motivational force behind people's behavior; healthy vs. neurotic.