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Theories in Personality
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
01/14/2011

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Id
Definition
Animalistic, immoral. Large part of iceberg below the surface. Pleasure principle. Id cannot discriminate between fantasy and reality.
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2 mechanisms of Id
Definition
Simple reflexes and primary process thinking (PPT- fantast fulfilling)
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Ego
Definition
The "I" used by the Id to function in real world. Reality principle, conscious.
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Superego
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Internalized law of the body. Punitive judge of behavior.
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Oral Stage
Definition
0-18 months, taking things in, passive-receptive functioning. theme is "I get".
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Anal Stage
Definition
External conflict- parents want you out of diapers
Internal Conflict- Kid wants to hold in bodily needs
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Phallic Stage
Definition
3-5 years old. Superego is formed, castration anxiety for men/penis envy for women. Oedipal complex
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Latency Period
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5 years old-puberty. All sexuality is repressed, shut down period instead of developmental period.
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Genital Stage
Definition
Puberty to adulthood. Find partners similar to our parents.
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Transference
Definition
Projection from patient about the conflict onto the therapist. Freud thought transference was essential to progress in a therapeutic relationship.
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Resistance
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Unconscious force that holds back patients from revealing info that would help them get better.
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Freud's 2 levels to dreams
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Manifest content-surface content that you remember
Latent content- True meaning that your unconscious does not want you to know
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Hermeneutics
Definition
Finding out the deeper meaning of your dreams through symbols
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Style of life
Definition
Individual ways we about achieving superiority. Unique principles by which your personality functions.
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Social Interest (Adler)
Definition
We naturally want to identify with the group, to contribute to society and group
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Masculine Protest
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Feeling of inadequacy that drives you to overcompensate in some way.
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Will-to-Power
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A translation of masculine protest, a drive to have control and perfection
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Fictional Finalism
Definition
People motivated by their fantasies about their future (not their failures of the past)
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The Creative Self (Adler)
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Core of the personality, 1st cause of everything we do.
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1st born child
Definition
Become neurotic, perverts, criminals, most at risk for problems. Lots of attention when younger but never get back that sense of superiority
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2nd born child
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More well-adjusted, have a built-in or concrete goal to work toward or surpass.
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Youngest child
Definition
Also at-risk because they are often spoiled, social interest may not develop
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Karen Horney's 2 problems in women
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1. Overemphasis on love relationship
2. Lack of self-confidence
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Horney's Theory of Personality
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Basic Anxiety, Basic Evil and Basic Hostility
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Basic Anxiety
Definition
-Comes from child's specific experiences
-Being isolated in a potentially hostile world
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Basic Evil
Definition
-Parental indifference
-Unkept promises
-Rooted in social environment of child
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Basic Hostility
Definition
-What the child feels
-1st response to basic evil (maladaptive)
-Child represses the hostility
-Results in basic anxiety
-Child develops basic mistrust
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Horney's Conception of Self
Definition
Despised Real Self, Real Self, Actual Self, Idealized Self
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Horney's 3 basic orientations
Definition
1st: moving toward others (compliant)
2nd: moving away from others (detached)
3rd: moving against others (aggressive)
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Mcluhan
Definition
"The medium is the message" Medium is an extension, affects our scale, pace and pattern
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Murray's Inference of People's Needs
Definition
1st factor: Needs are revealed in result of behavior
2nd factor: Patterns of behavior
3rd factor: Needs are revealed in attention or response to something
4th factor: expression of emotion (affect)
5th factor: Satisfaction
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David McClelland's Big 3 Motives
Definition
Need for Achievement, Need for Affiliation, Need for Power
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Need For Achievement
Definition
Recurring need to achieve excellence
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Need For Affiliation
Definition
Maintaining personal relationships
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Need For Power
Definition
Have impact on environment and other people
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Eric Erikson
Definition
Crises, tendencies (neuroses and psychoses if imbalanced), 8 psychosocial stages
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Gilligan/Kohlberg Debate
Definition
Note to Self: Look out for!
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Kohlberg's Stage Theory of Moral Development
Definition
Preconventional Morality, Conventional, and Post-Conventional
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Preconventional Morality
Definition
Stage 1: Punishment-Obedience
Stage 2: Personal Reward Orientation
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Conventional Morality
Definition
Stage 3: Gain Social Approval
Stage 4: Maintain Social Order
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Post-Conventional Morality
Definition
Stage 5: Affirms agreed upon human rights
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principles
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Carol Gilligan
Definition
Men: Justice & Rights
Women: Care & Responsibiilty
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Allport's Trait Theory
Definition
Common Traits and Individual Traits, dominated by one single personal disposition
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Functional Autonomy
Definition
-Motives in normal, mature adults are independent of childhood experiences
-Link to internal motivation
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Cattell vs. Allport
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Cattell: basic elements of personality can only be identified through factor analysis. Distinction between structural & motivational aspects of personality
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Factory Analysis
Definition
Incorporating clusters of traits that are correlated.
-Analysis of items to determine what factors you may have.
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Cattell's Traits
Definition
Dynamic Traits, Temperament Traits and Ability Traits
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Personality Big 5
Definition
O-openness
C-conscientiousness
E-extraversion
A-agreeableness
N-neuroticism
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Maslow's 5 Innate Needs
Definition
1. Physiological (food, sex, water)
2. Safety (physical protection and security)
3. Belonging (To love and be loved by others)
4. Esteem (confidence and faith in what you and others can offer to the world)
5. Self-actualization
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Carl Rogers
Definition
Person-centered theory
-positive view on humanity
Positive regard from others, positive self-regard
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Person-Centered Therapy
Definition
Not like psychodynamic therapy at all (no therapist interpretations etc.)
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George Kelly's Cognitive Approach
Definition
The way we anticipate events affects our physiological make-up
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Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS)
Definition
No training to get a response (e.g. food)
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Unconditioned Response (UCR)
Definition
Response that is automatic and unlearned (e.g. salivation)
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Definition
Conditioned through learning to get a response (e.g. bell)
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Conditioned Response (CR)
Definition
e.g. salivation

Note: UCR and CR are the same classical conditioning
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Acquisition
Definition
-During conditioning: Bell + Food= salivation
-After conditioning: Bell=salivation, Bell + no food=salivation

May eventually get no response
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4 Reinforcement Schedules
Definition
Fixed Interval, Variable Interval, Fixed Ratio, Variable Ratio
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Fixed Interval
Definition
pig gets food at fixed times
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Variable Interval
Definition
pig gets food at intermittent times
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Fixed Ratio
Definition
pig sits certain number of times, gets food
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Variable Ratio
Definition
pig sits different # of times, get food different # of times
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Positive Reinforcement
Definition
Reward to encourage positive behavior
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Negative Reinforcement
Definition
Presence of noxious stimulus, removal of negative stimulus.
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Punishment
Definition
For negative behavior, you present something it doesn't like
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Bandura
Definition
Observational Learning (Bobo doll study)
Mirror neurons firing when watching modeled behavior
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Eysenck's 3 Factor Theory of Personality
Definition
Extraversion, psychoticism and neuroticism
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