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| Formal systems for assessing how people differ, particularly in their predispositions to respond in certain ways across situations |
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| Seek to identify stable individual differences by analyzing the performances of large groups of people on rating tests/questionnaires |
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| 16 basic personality factors |
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Only 3 trait factors existed
Extroversion
Neuroticism
Psychoticism |
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| Big Five Model of Personality |
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Extroversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Neuroticism
Openness |
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| Term to describe personality traits that dominate an individual's life |
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| Term to describe the 5-10 descriptive traits that you would use to describe someone you know |
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| Less obvious characteristics of an individual's personality that do not always appear in their behavior |
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| Approach to personality development, based largely on Freud, that hold that much of behavior is governed by unconscious forces |
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Portion of personality that motivates people to act in an ideal fashion, in accordance w/the moral customs defined by parents and culture
Makes us feel guilty when our behavior strays from accepted standards |
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| Always act in a proper and ideal fashion as defined by parents and culture |
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| Portion of personality that induces people to act w/reason and deliberation and helps them conform to the requirements of the external world |
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Denial
Repression
Projection
Sublimination
Rationalization
Reaction formation |
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When small children have intense, but unconscious sexual urges that become focused during this stage toward the opposite-sex parent
Boys become erotically attracted to their mother |
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| Girls can become attracted to their father |
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| Movement in psychology and approach to personality that focuses on people's unique capacity for choice, responsibility, and growth |
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| Organized set of perceptions that we hold about our abilities and characteristics |
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| Idea that we value what others think of us and that we constantly seek others' approval, love, and companionship |
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| Expectations/standards that we believe others place on us |
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| Discrepancy between the image we hold of ourselves (self-concept) and the sum of all our experiences |
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| Approach to personality that suggests it is human experiences, and interpretations of those experiences, that determine personality growth and development |
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| Amount of control that a person fells they have over the environment |
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| People who are oriented externally |
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| Internally oriented people |
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| Beliefs we hold about our own ability to perform a task/accomplish a goal |
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| Idea that beliefs, behavior, and the environment interact to shape what is learned from experience |
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| Controversial debate centering on whether people really do behave consistently across situations |
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Degree to which a person monitors a situation closely and changes their behavior accordingly
High self-monitors may not behave consistently across situations |
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