UNIT 7: PERSONALITY

It is how we uniquely adjust to life who are you there are four different ways that we Define or show up personality for different questions that a psychologist will ask somebody to try to determine their personality so we'll talk about that overall researchers have a general consensus in Psychology that personality is fixed so we are born with a certain personality to start out with temperament you guys remember learning about baby temperaments your either like easy or slow to warm up or you're difficult we start out with those temperaments those personalities and that's what's going to grow into our personalities we also know from identical twin studies and adoption studies that you are more like your biological parents than adopted parents even if you've never met a biological parents and identical twins raised apart are more similar than any other sibling that's raised together so personality is a very large biological components but there's other environmental factors to it so what are we ask ourselves when we're trying to determine our personality we have four thoughts number one how do you think what is your cognition what is your thought process number two how do you act what are your behaviors what are you doing number three how do you feel what are your emotions about something and number four how do you process information how do you take a piece of information and then try and think about it to process it overall the processing kind of combines all three of these things how do you think and feel about something and then how are you going to respond to it that's all processing information so we will spend the rest of unit 7 or meet unit on personality today we're going to talk about a certain perspective of personality and then we'll talk about other perspectives of personality Tuesday and Wednesday today is going to be about the psychodynamic Theory of Personality is one of our seven major approaches to psychology do you guys remember which finger it is it's your pinky because remember things happen to you when you're little it's your little finger that are going to then up back what happens about the rest of your life psychodynamic Theory of Personality very very very old not really old it was the lady 1800s cuz I was very new but it was one of our first approaches to psychology the father of psychotherapist is a man named Zigman Freud Freud is a very very special man very interesting man Freud is the father of psychoanalysis or the father of psycho Dynamic approach basically Freud is the first person who ever did the version of Talk therapy so some people picture like therapy as in a person laying down on a couch then there's a guy with glasses fruit started because he saw a patient and this patient was paralyzed he couldn't move his life but nothing was biologically wrong with him there was no actual physiological reason why he should have been paralyzed so Freud talked to him he talked about his traumas all his traumas were uncovered and the man could walk again that is a disorder that we're going to talk about in our last unit so we'll get there but anyways something happens to us where we're like paralyzed or we can lose our vision or lose our hearing this new type of therapy he says that people just need to reveal what's going on in their mind and things will help so he comes up with this idea called the unconscious everybody unconscious is the key word for psychodynamic if you ever ever see the word unconscious in a multiple choice question it is psychodynamic that means if they're asking about something with cognition and you see unconscious it's not cognition it is second Dynamics remember that unconscious think about it if you broke your pinky you would go unconscious I don't know so what is the unconscious mind it is essentially a little pool or Reservoir it's in the back of our minds and this is where we shove every single deep dark thought that we don't want to come to surface every bad thing that you've ever thought of anything that's immoral or illegal or unethical we all have those thoughts and they are just sitting in our unconscious that the reason why we all have problems is because people are seven things down into the unconscious and the unconscious is actually what's controlling all of us so we have to get stuff out of our unconscious we have to talk about stuff that way we won't let the unconscious in the bad thing rule our behaviors so basically Freud said I'm going to let you talk about whatever is coming to mind whatever comes up we're just going to follow your train of thought and we're going to see what pops out of your unconscious that's called free association so the process of free association is the major process of psychodynamic or psychoanalytics Theory where you just let people think you have a chain of thoughts and then once people Express those thoughts and once you get those thought out then it's the goal of a psychoanalysis to then interpret what those thoughts mean so example I want you all right now to write down anything you think of when I say this next bunch of different dream theories out there based on these typo Dynamic approach what is called latent content where we essentially are dreaming of all of the things that are freaking us out in real life and our dreams represent something in real life so there's a bunch of symbols and meanings and our dreams example there was this old psychoanalytic textbook that said if somebody was dreaming about something that equals this there was one that said if you're dreaming about flying a plane that means that you're having intimacy issues with your partner yeah lots of lots of strange explanations unfortunate thing about psychodynamic is we can't prove that there's no like empirical data that we can get from that it's not falsifiable we can't say no you're not dreaming about using crash because you're having intimacy issues that we can't prove that so it's not a big supportive Theory we also have something called Freudian slips is where you say something you think it's an accident but really it's representing your unconscious thoughts so if you were in Middle School in biology and you were reading the word organism and you said orgasm instead Freud would say that's because you have sex on the mind you were thinking about sex so it's slipped out I have a little Freudian slip cartoon if you guys have never seen it over there big fan of this yes let's talk about Roy's Theory of Personality this is a very popular theory that has been used for the past hundred something years it represents the structure of the Mind fruit says that there are three facets of the Mind there are three things going on in mind we have our ID our eagle and our superego we will start out with the ID the end you can remember can stand for inner desires Freud says that every single one of us is born with an ID we all start out with an ID Plus we all start out with an ID everybody as a baby bless you is focused on their ID your it is going to be about instant gratification give me what I want right now it is everything that is immoral anything that is unethical this would be be like controller of your unconscious so these are going to be your sexual drive your desires if anything is maybe not socially acceptable that's all in the end if you imagine like a devil and an angel on your shoulders that it is going to be the devil that's going to be the person telling you to be selfish telling you to do whatever it is that makes you happy or something that's good for you so that it is about your inner desires it doesn't matter about Society it doesn't matter about Norms or social roles or rules or anything it's about you all of us start out with it it's because as a baby you have to be selfish you're just a tiny little lump and you're going to cry because he wants something right you are driven by your desires and your needs to be fed and to be taken care of what we developed later in life is called the superego Eagles going to be the angel on your shoulder this is going to be like little Jimmy Cricket you're conscience inside of your mind this is the thing that says no we shouldn't listen to our ID we shouldn't just run wild and be selfish creatures we should be selfless we should think about morals and we should think about ethics this is your super experience no the devil in the angel you can see that these two will fight each other a lot and these things are going on in your mind so what's happening is you constantly have your ID and your superego fighting each other so we need someone to balance them out that is your ego your ego is going to be your conscience or your conscious sorry not conscience this is your conscious so your conscious thought processes bless you this is what you are aware of what happens is the email is going to be the decider the ego is going to say should we go with it this time should we go with a super ego this time should we balance them out a little bit of something called the reality principle he said that in reality you can always get what you want you cannot just be the in the whole time there has to be an equal balance you have to sometimes be selfish and you have to sometimes be selfless and that is the reality of this world we need to balance our end and our super video otherwise we're going to have a whole bunch of unconscious conflicts our mind is going to constantly be in conflict with itself so this is how we set up our mind all of us have these inside of us we start out with an ID we don't start getting a superego until we start socializing a little bit we start getting a little bit older and then we have to develop that eagle once we get the superego if you guys remember we talked about Piaget's theory right if we look at the end we have in the century motor stage in the pre-operational stage is very ID right that idea of egocentrism you're very focused on yourself that's a very good thing to do then once we get into that concrete operational stage we start developing our superego we start thinking about other people and are you so what's Roy also said is that sometimes the in and the super easy are going to fight too much and the ego is going to get tired the eagle is going to get exhausted from balancing out these two and so sometimes when we're in constant conflict what we as humans do is we resort to something called defense mechanisms when we are faced with anxiety when there's something going wrong with our ID where our ID really wants to win and we're being bad people we then feel anxious about that we do not feel great that something bad is happening so we then try to help alleviate our anxiety we try and help the ego out a little bit Southwest 8 I will give you an examples of those eight and it's also helpful for you mentally to remember them to make up your own examples think about if you can apply it to your life because again we have all used probably every single one of these at some point think about a time when you would have used it if you notice somebody using it because we also have seen someone use all of these for sure so try and really think about that