- Distinguish between personality types and traits.
B) Traits
One durable characteristic of a person.
- Distinguish between personality types and traits.
A) personality
A particular pattern of behavior and thinking that prevails across time and situations, and differentiates one person from another.
- Distinguish between personality types and traits.
C) Types
Collections of traits that are said to her together in some individuals.
- Explain research to identify personality traits by Allport and Cartell and the 5 factor model.
A) Allport
Interested in determining the basic traits to describe all personality types. He identified 18,000 English adjectives that could describe an individual’s personality.
- Explain research to identify personality traits by Allport and Cartell and the 5 factor model.
B) Cartell
Narrowed Allport’s list down to 16 core personality traits by using factor analysis. Correlations. He created the 16PF questionnaire with this.
- Explain research to identify personality traits by Allport and Cartell and the 5 factor model.
C) 5 Factor Model
Personality researchers have concluded that five personality dimensions best to capture all personality types. Ocean.
- Explain research to identify personality traits by Allport and Cartell and the 5 factor model.
D) Ocean
Openness to experience, consensus mess, extroversion, agreeableness, eroticism.
- Explain the psychological approach to personality.
A) what is personality affected by?
Personality is affected by the interaction between genetics and environment. We can’t easily separate them.
- Explain the psychological approach to personality.
B) The big five and genetics
The preliminary finding is that the big five I strongly affected by genetics
- Explain the psychological approach to personality.
C) Julian Rotler
Julian Rottler believed that based on experience, people decide to believe that what happens to them either is or is not controlled by their own efforts. This is called their locus of control.
- Explain the psychological approach to personality.
C) I. Internal locus of control.
Belief that an individual can control his/her actions and results.
- Explain the psychological approach to personality.
C) ii. External locus of control
Belief that circumstances are beyond the control of the individual.
- Explain the psychological approach to personality.
D) Self-Efficiency:
An individual’s belief about their ability to perform a specific task.
- Summarize the psychodynamic theory of personality.
A) psychodynamic:
General term for psychological theories as emphasize the relationship between the conscious and unconscious, and the interaction among the various drives/forces with in a person.
- Summarize the psychodynamic theory of personality.
B) influences
It also specifies the peoples personalities are influenced by the defence mechanisms that they used to keep unacceptable motives and thoughts/sex/aggression from their conscious awareness.
- Summarize the psychodynamic theory of personality.
C) types of defenses
Immature he defense: distorts reality the most and leads to the most ineffective behaviors for example projection, displacement.
Intermediate offenses involve less distortion of reality and leads to somewhat more effective behaviors, for example repression.
Mature defense involves the least reality distortion and is associated with the most adaptive coping mechanisms for example: humour.
- Summarize heuristic approach and the study of personality’s contributions to Maslaw and Rogers.
A) Maslaw.
Maslaw believes that a person’s behavior stems from a motivation to reach his/her potential. However he thought people must first satisfy their lower level needs before focusing on higher levels.
