Personality
Individual’s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling
Self Report
Answering a series of questions about yourself that accurately describe your own behavior and mental state
MMPI-2-RF
Researched clinical questionnaires used to analyze personalities and psychological problems
Projective Techniques
Standard designs used to reveal the personality from an individual’s perspecitive.
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Revealing underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the world through the stories they make up about pictures of people
Disadvantages of Self Report
- Validity
- Disclosure
- Desirability
- Debasement
- Negative Impression Management
Trait
A stable disposition to behave in a particular and consistent way
Big Five Dimensions of Personality
- Openness to experience
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
(OCEAN)
Factor Analysis
Statistical technique that identifies groups of things that seem to have something in common with other groups
Examples of Digital Footprints
- Social media posts
- Smartphone data
- Extraverts spend more time messaging others on apps
Changes in Personality can be caused by:
- Brain Damage
- Brain Pathologies
- Pharmaceutical treatments that change brain chemistry
Behavioral Genetics
Correlations between identical twins and fraternal twins
Defense Mechanism
Unconscious coping mechanism that reduces anxiety generated by threats from unacceptable impulses
Types of Defense mechanisms:
- Rationalization (It’s not just you, there are outside factors)
- Reaction Formation (Doing what makes you uncomfortable)
- Projection (Putting desires and thoughts on others)
- Regression (Going back to an early stage)
- Displacement (Putting stress/anger on others)
- Identification (Copying what others do that works for them)
- Sublimation (Channeling negative energy outwards)
Self Actualizing Tendency
Human motive toward realizing our inner potential
Existential Approach
Personality is created by an individual’s ongoing choices and decisions based on reality
Angst
The choosing of remaining in a state of negativity and anxiety
Flow Experience
Activities that challenge your abilities but aren’t too challenging/boring
Social-Cognitive Approach
Views personality based on how they behave and deal with a situation atm
Person-Situation Controversy
Questioning self if behavior is caused more by personality or environment
Personal construals
Personal perspectives and responses of a situation that differs from others
Outcome Expectancies
Predicting the consequence of a future behavior
Locus of control
The belief that you’re the reason for all outcomes that become of you
Self-recognition in mirrors allows:
- Reflexive thinking
- Reflection of self in thoughts, feelings, and actions
