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- What is the definition of personality
- The science of individual differences
- What is the trait perspective?
- fully focused on describing how people differ from eachother
- What did Allport do when studying trait perspective?
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-He tried to seek out fundamental traits
pLooked in dictionary for all adjectives that described people
-He came up with 18000 different trait words
-He broke the 18000 traits into central trait
-each person had 6 or 7 central traits -
What did Eysenk do within the trait perspective?
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-He did an empyrical test of allports ideas (central traits)
-Gave surveys to people to rank themselves
-came up with 3 dimensions :
A. Intro & extroversion (reserved vs. sociable)
B. Neuroticism (Stability)
C. Psychoticism (connection to reality, to what extent to do day dream?)
WHAAA??? - What do the Big 5 tell us, and what are they?
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They tell us the best description of the way people differ
OCEAN
O-openness to experience
C-conscientiousness related to success
& school
E-extraversion (sociability)
A-agreeableness
N-neuroticism (stability/instability) - How did Freud get info about the unconscious mind?
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1. Day dream analysis... listening to people through latent content (finding symbols) while listening to a person tell a story through a manifest (conscious) content.
*The unconscious mind uses symbols to display things you try to ignore - What is the psychoanalytic theory. Who?
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Freud
the first comprehensive theory
a lot of personality is unconscious -
-What are slips?
-What is free association? -
-Slips: your unconscious mind letting things out
-F.A.:Saying a word to somebody and they say the first thing that comes to mind - describe id ego, super ego, and ego
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Id: pleasure principle
Super: place for norms and rules within society
Ego: reality principle between id and super (pleasing the id but following the super ego) - What is repression?
- A defense mechanism- banishes unacceptable thing from the consciousness
- What is regression?
- A defense mechanism- enacting earlier coping strategies
- What is reaction formation?
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A defense mechanism-
transforming the undesirable impulse to its opposite
EX: want to pull sisters hair out, but tell her shes cutes
EX: a preacher preaches that gay is bad and u preach the same thing when you are actually gay - What is projection?
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A defense mechanism-
Putting you impulse on someone else.
EX: jealousy- Steve wants to ahve sex during long relationship w/ someone else, so if he sees his gf flirting with someone, he assumes she wants to have sex with someone else too - When does the oral stage occur? and what happens during it?
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-Occurs between 0-18 months.(infant)
-finding pleasure through mouth
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When does the anal stage occur?
and what happens during it? -
-Occurs 2-3 years old
-Potty training..needing to control themselves.
*(getting fixated in thsi stag is called anal retentive..makes them neat freaks) - What is the latency stage and when does it occur?
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5-13 years
cognitive and social skills - What is the genital stage and when does it occur?
- puberty onward