Intro

Question 1

Define ‘personality’

Answer 1

An individuals’ characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour, together with the psychological mechanisms, hidden or not, behind those patterns

Question 2

Who came up with our current definition of personality?

Answer 2

Funder in 2019

Question 3

What is the psychological triad?

Answer 3

Feelings, thoughts and actions
Emotions, cognitions and behaviours

Question 4

Name the 5 common approaches to understanding personality

Answer 4

• Humorism
• Self & Identity
• Psychoanalysis
• Self-Actualization
• Big 5

Question 5

Humorism

Answer 5

Galen
–> Said that our personality depends on our biology
–> We depend on the 4 liquids of the body
(blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm)

Question 6

Self & Identity

Answer 6

James
–> Made the critical distinction between the “me” (to understanding of the self as an object of experience) and the “I” (subject of experience)

Question 7

Psychoanalysis

Answer 7

Freud
–> Who we are is determined by what happens in our unconscious mind
(unconscious / preconscious / conscious)

Question 8

Self-Actualization

Answer 8

Maslow
–> We must and are always focused on chasing the best version of ourselves

Question 9

Big 5

Answer 9

Oliver John
–> Traits that allow us to understand individual positionality (who we are) and individual positionality in regards to others (who we are in comparison to others)

Question 10

Biological Approach

Answer 10

Understanding the mind in terms of the body

Question 11

Psychoanalytic Approach

Answer 11

Focusing on the unconscious mind and internal mental conflict

Question 12

Trait

Answer 12

How people differ psychologically

Question 13

Phenomenological

Answer 13

Focusing on people’s conscious experience of the world

Question 14

Humanistic

Answer 14

How conscious awareness produces uniquely human attributes

Question 15

Cross-cultural

Answer 15

How the experience of reality differs across cultures

Question 16

Which is the best approach?

Answer 16

None / a combination
–> the approaches are not mutually exclusive and its good to consider them all

Question 17

One Big Theory

Answer 17

nope!!! we wish, ideally it’d be great but in reality its better to just separate into subsections

Question 18

Social Psychology

Answer 18

looks for causes of behaviour in a situation

Question 19

Personality Psychology

Answer 19

looks for causes of behavior in a person

Question 20

Clinical psychology overlap with personality psych

Answer 20

both study extreme personality pattens but clinical focuses more on treatement ig?