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define
Personality
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a set of physiological traits and mechanisms that are organized and enduring, that influence interactions with the environment
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Clues through which personality is revealed
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- thoughts (beliefs, values, expectations)
- feelings (emotions, passions)
- behaviors (actions, what you do)
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Distinctiveness
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how individuals vary
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Consistency
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the idea that people behave similarly accross situations
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describe
Genetic Factors
personality
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genes are an indirect influence on certain prsonality traits, but the environment influences how these traits play out in our lives
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describe
Molecular Genetic Studies
personality
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investigations that allow researchers to pinpoint genes associated with specific personality traits
Two assumptions:
1. genes code for proteins that influence neurotransmitters
2. the functioning of neurotransmitters is associated with personality traits
associations between novelty thinking and genes influencing dopamine
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describe
Shared Environmental Factors
personality
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experiences that make members with in a family more alike
- little or no role in adult personality
- role in childhood personality which dissipates overtime
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describe
Nonshared Environmental Factors
personallity
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experiences that make members within a family less alike
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define
Trait
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a relatively stable dispostion to behave in a particular and consistent way
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Factor Analysis
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statistical procedure based on correlation to determine similar and dissimilar traits, thereby defining overarching factors
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What is the purpose of trait theories?
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trait theories describe individual differences in personality rather than explain their causes
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Self-Report Inventories
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personality tests that ask individuals to answer questions about their own traits
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Strengths of Self-Report Inventories
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- more objective and precise estimates
- allows comparisons between data generated by many respondents
- can determine relaibility and valididty
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Weaknesses of Self-Report Inventories
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- deliberate deception
- social desirability bias
- response sets
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Basis of the Five Factor Model
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- uses a lexical approach
- uses implicit personality theories
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The Big Five
hint: OCEAN
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- openness to experience
- conscientiousness
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- neuroticism
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describe
Openness to Experience
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- curiosity, flexibility, imaginative, deep thinker, creative
- more tolerant of ambiguity, less prejudice, liberal, hobbyful
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describe
Conscientiousness
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- reliable, disciplined, punctual, diligent, well-organized
- live longer, better job performance
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describe
Extraversion
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- outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, assertive, gregarious
- happier, more optimistic, popular, better dating lives
also known as “positive emotionality”
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describe
Agreeableness
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- cooperative, considerate, trusting, modest, sympathetic
- less divorce and better health
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describe
Neuroticism
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- tense, anxious, hostile, insecure, vulnerable, self-conscious
- interpret same events as stressful, have larger reactions
- worse health
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Cultural Changes and Additions to the big Five
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Big Six: addition of wicked/stupid
Hexaco: “honesty-humility”
4 Factor: based on Chinese language, need social and interpersonal traits + added in “Chinese tradition” factor
Study from Bolivia – found two dimensions
Pro sociality
Industriousness
Big Three: fearfulness, extroversion, neuroticism
Big Two (??): extroversion/dominance and agreeableness/love
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Individualism
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individualist cultures tend to focus on themselves and personal goals, leading to higher self-esteem
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Collectivism
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collectivitst cultures tend to focus on relations with others, causing personality to be less predictive of behavior
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Strengths of the Big Five
1. describes differences between people
2. can predict behaviors and out comes
3. can be used to design tailored interventions
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Cosmetic Psychopharmacology
- drugs and medication can change our personality to be more "desirable"
- conflicts with the fact that negative emotions exist for survival
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Mean Level Change
examines if a group of people experience an increase or decrease on trait dimensions overtime
| due to bio or social/historical processes
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emotional stability...
increases overtime!
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openness to experience...
inverse U shape!
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agreeableness...
increases overtime!
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conscientiousness...
increases overtime~
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social vitality and social dominance..
decrease, increase
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when do the largest changes in personality occur?
early adulthood!
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Rank-Order Consistency
the degree to which individual differences change overtime
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- people maintain their relative positions along traits in comparison to others
- high degree of consistency
- stability is lowest in adolescense
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Findings + Walter Mischel Person Situation Controversy
- people exhibit less consistency accross situations than assumed
1. people behave differently in different situations
2. people's responses are based on perceived potential for reinforcement, working towards the desired outcome
| some traits (intel) are stable, others shift with the situation (extrove
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Personality in Small Snippets of Time
situational factors are more predictive
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Personality Overtime
more consistency, personality is more apparent in decisions
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Physiognomy
detecting people's personality traits from their facial features
- largely falsified yet still relevant
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William Sheldon and Body Type
he was yapping saying you could get personality from body type
- mesomorph: muscular and bold
- ectomorph: skinny and introvert
- endomorph
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Stuctured Personality Tests
- pen and paper, responses are fixed
- easy to administer and score
- researchers can collect lots of data
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Rationally/THeoretically Constructed Tests
- begin with a clear cut conceptualization of a trait, write Qs in a way to assess the conceptualization
- not very valid
- ex. MBTI
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Projective Tests
a test in which participants are asked to interpret or make sense of ambiguous stimuli
- Projective hypothesis: people will "project" their personality in their explanations
- the interpretation will "reveal" something about their mental state
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Strengths of Projective Tests
may be a useful way of gathering information about unconscious wishes, desires, and fantasies
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Disadvantages of Projective Tests
difficult to score, uncertain valididty and relaibility
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Thematic Apperception Test
people are presented with an ambiguous stimulus, asked to describe it
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is TAT valid?
- not known to be reliable or valid
- moderately valid for measuring perceptions of others
- moderatley valid for measuring achievement
- not so good for mental illness
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Rorschach Inkblot
a test where people are presented with ten symmetrical inkblots, and examiners score for numerous characteristics associated with personality traits
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Are rorschach tests valid?
- test-retest reliability anf interrater reliability is problematic
- little evidence it detects features of mental disorders
- not adjusted to people rigging their answers
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P. T. Barnum Effect
the tendency of people to accept high base rate descriptions (those that apply to almost everyone) as accurate
- based on our subjectie judgement of accuracy
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Why do we still use projective tests?
illusory correlations, representativeness heuristic, overall human error
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Human Figure Drawings
subject draws a human, personality assessment based on the drawing
- not valid or reliable
- some people just suck at art
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Free Will
idea that people are self-determined, and hold responsibility for their choices and their consequences
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Determinism
| plus two types!
the belief that all events are caused by preceding factors, and that we have no real ability to make choices
1. genetic determinism
2. environmental determinism
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Behaviorists
scientific psychology should only study observable behavior, which is learned through conditiong
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RAdical Behaviorists
believe that behavior is fully determined by environmental stimuli through conditioning/learning
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Personality
| according to behaviorists
Personality is a collection of response tendencies that are tied to various stimulus sensations
- response tendencies: stable and consistent patterns of behavior
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Scientific Eval of Behaviorists
- disregards influence of thoughts
- why would we have such large cortexes if our thoughts are just byproducts
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Social Learning Theory
we are self-organizing, proactive, self-reflecting, and self-regulating - not just rats and pigeons
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REciprocal Determinism
internal mental events, external environmental events, and overt behavior all influence one another
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Observational Learning
| in developing personality
we can acquire habits from teachers and parents
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Scientific Eval of Social Learning
implies a role of shared enviros in personality development, which has been largely disproven
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Three Core Assumptions of Psychoanalytic Theory
1. psychic deeterminism
2. symbolic meaning
3. unconscious motivation
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Psychic Determinism
all events are caused by what happened before them, nothing happens by accident - reasons can be uncovered through the unconscious
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Levels of Consciousness
1. conscious
2. preconscious
3. unconscious
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Two Basic Instincts
| freud
1. Libido - life instincts
2. Thanatos - death instinct
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Symbolic Meaning
no action, no matter how small, is meaningless - they are all symbolic of something else
| knowing freud they're symbolic of sex.
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Psychoanalytic Personality Theory
people are coping with their instincts within the constraints for civilized society
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Structure of Personality
| freud
one part creates urges, another holds societal expectations, another tries to satisfy urges
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Id
| reservoir of psychic energy
the most primitive part of the mind which creates drives and urges following the pleasure principle and primary process thinking
| entirely unconscious, develops in infancy
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Pleasure Principle
wanting immediate gratification
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Primary Process Thinking
doesn't hold logical rules of conscious thoughts or reality anchors
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Wish Fulfillment
if urges are unvailable, an image is temporarily satisfied - occurs within dreams
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Superego
| sense or morality
our moral compass - internalizes ideals, values, and morals of society to an extremely high standards - uses guilt to reinforce right and wrong
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Ego
| constrains Id to reality
understands that Id is in conflict with reality (reality principle), and delays gratification until it can problem solve or find an appropriate outlet to obtain satisfaction (secondary process thinking)
| develops in first 2-3 yeaers
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Conflict
| freud
life is a constant negotiation of opposing impulses, causing anxiety which leads us to employ defense mechanisms
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Anxiety
| + 3 types
unpleasant state that something is wrong
1. objective anxiety
2. neurotic anxiety
3. moral anxiety
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Objective Anxiety
in response to a real external threat
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Neurotic Anxiety
when the ego is overwhelmed by id
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Moral Anxiety
conflict between ego and superego
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Defense Mechanisms
unconscious maneuvers intended to minimize anxiety
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Repression
| defense mech
keeping traumatic memories hidden in the nconscious
| motivated forgetting
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Denial
| defense mech
convinving oneself something didn't happen or isn't as bad as it really is
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Displacement
| defense mech
redirecting emotions fromone source to another target
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Rationalization
| defense mech
generating logical/acceptable reasons for poor behavior
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Reaction Formation
| **defense mech**
displaying the exact opposite behavior
| internalized homophobia
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Regression
| defense mech
reverting to immature patterns
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Projection
| defense mech
projecting thooughts and feelings onto others
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Sublimination
| defense mech
converting unacceptable desires into acceptable behaviors
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Psychosexual Stages of Development
the foundation for personality is set at 5 years old, as we past through five states. in the first three we have to resolve a specific conflict related to sexual gratification
1. oral stage
2. anal stage
3. phallic stage
4. latency stage
5. genital stage
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Oral Stage
| birth to 18 months
- main sense of pleasure is mouth, lips, tongue
- conflict is weaning, withdrawing from bottle
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Anal Stage
| 18 months to 3y
- pleasure is from dispelling and retaining feces
- conflict is the ability to have self control
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Phallic Stage
| 3 - 5y
- child discovers they do or don't have a penis - "penis envy" in girls
- oedipal or electra conflict: hatred toward same sex parents and secual attraction to opposite sex
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Latency Stage
| 6y - puberty
- little psych development, learning and acquiring skills
- sexual impulses submerged into the unconscious
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Genital Stage
| puberty onwards
- focus on romantic relationships
- ability to form relationships is hindred if previous confllicts havent been settled
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What happens if people don't resolve a conflict in one of Freud's stages?
results in them having a specific personality type
- stuck at oral: dependent, impatient, demanding
- stuck at anal: excessive neatness, rule-following, stinginess, stubborness
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Issues with Freud's Theories
1. Unfalsifiable
2. Not generalizable
3. Not predictive
4. unconscious (?)
5. Flawed assumption of shared enviro influence
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Neo-Freudians
two differences:
1. less emphasis on sexuality, more emphasis on social drives
2. more optimistic about the prospectis of personality growth
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Alfred Alder
believed that the principle motivation in human personality is striving for superirority through the cration of a distinctive lifestyle
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Inferiority Complex
feelings of low seld esteem that leads to overcompensation
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Carl Jung
believed our personality was partially formed by the collective unconscious, which contains multiple archetypes
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Collective Unconscious
comprised of the memories that ancestors have passed down throughout generations
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Archetypes
cross-culturally universal symbols souch as the mother, the goddess, the hero, etc.
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Karen Horney
believed "penis envy" was misguided, and women's sense of inferiority stems from an excessie dependency on men which is ingrained by society
| impact of culture on growth and development
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Humanism
theoretical orientation emphasizing unique qualities of people, especially free will and the potential for growth
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Phenomenological Approach
using subjective experiencs to understand behavior
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Abraham Maslow...
emphasized the importance of focusing on the poisitve qualities of people
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Personality according to needs Hierarchy
personality is shaped by our current state and history of needs satisfaction
- those who've always had a need are better equipped to deal with its loss
- those who've been deprived act differently when needs are fulfilled
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Self-Actualization
the drive towards creativity and fulfilling our potential, the final goal of development
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Peak Experience
a transpersonal and ecstatic state, marked by felings of euphoria, harmonization, deep meanings, and interconnectedness
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characterisitics of self actualized peopel
creative, spontaneous, accepting, self confident, focus on real-world problems
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Conditions for skipping needs
1. lower needs have been met previously
2. belief that you have the potential/capacity to meet lower needs
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Criticisms of MAslow
1. not testable, little empirical evidence
2. doen't really fit into evolutionary POV
3. little evidence for a hierarchy/specific order
4. may be gender bias
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other thingies abt maslow
| send help im so sleepy
- fulfillment impacts well-being independently
- societal factors impact basic needs and negative feelings
- individual facotrs impact pos and neg feelings
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Carl Rogers
believed that people are intrinsically good
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Fully Functioning Person
someone who is on the way to self-acutalization, sees htemselves accurately, self-accepting, trusts themselves
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Three Keys to Personality
| Carl Rogers
1. self-concept
2. need for positive regard
3. conditions of worth
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Conditions of Worth
- self expectations for appropriate/inappropriate behavior + accomplishments
- internalized parental and societal expectations
- personality largely stems from differences in conditions of worth others impose onto us
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Real Self
how a person is in reality
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What leads to tension?
| acarl rogers
a discepancy between ideal self and real self leads to incongruence
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Unconditional Love
parental love no matter what the child does
- leads to congruent self perception
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Conditional Love
love is dependent on how the child acts
- leads to incongruent self-perception
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Scientific Eval of Carl Rogers
- aggression may be a pa rt of genetics
- people who decreaseincongruence aren't necessarily the one swho improve
Psych 102
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