Title: Personality
1Personality
- Part Two- Theories from
- Humanistic
- Trait
- Social Cognitive
2Humanistic Perspective
- importance of self and fulfillment of potential
3- Personality how you feel about yourself, how
you are meeting your goals
4- Free will
- Self-awareness
- Psychological growth
- Focus on healthy personality
- Individuals conscious, subjective opinion of
self is most important
5Carl Rogers
- Self-conceptset of perceptions you hold about
yourself
6Positive Regard
- Positive regardsense of being loved and valued
by other people--can be conditional or
unconditional
7Conditional Positive Regard
- I love you when you are doing what I approve of-
if not, I will withdraw my love
8Unconditional Positive Regard
- I love you no matter what you say or do
- I still might be mad, but you know I love you-
you can tell me anything
9Abraham Maslow
- Hierarchy of Needs influences behavior- striving
for self actualization
10Morality, Lack of Prejudice
Self-Esteem, Confidence and Respect
Significant Other, Family and Friends
Economic and Physical security (Health and Job)
Food, Water, Oxygen, Etc
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12Evaluating Humanism
- Difficult to test or validate scientifically
- Too optimistic, minimizing some of the more
destructive aspects of human nature
13Social Cognitive- Bandura
- understanding personality involves considering
the situation and thoughts before, during, and
after an event
14- The importance of
- observational learning,
- conscious cognitive processes,
- social experience,
- Self-efficacy
- Reciprocal determinism in personality
15Self-efficacy
- Belief that people have about their ability to
meet demands of a specific situation (successful
or not)
16Reciprocal determinism
- Model that explains personality as the result of
behavioral, cognitive, and environmental
interactions
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18Evaluation of Social Cognitive Perspective
- May not reflect the complexity of human
interactions - Ignores the influences of unconscious, emotions,
and conflicts
19Trait Theory
- Description and measurement of personality
differences
20- Traitrelatively stable predisposition to behave
in a certain way
21Five Factor Model
- Factorsusually rated from low to high
- Conscientiousness
- Agreeableness
- Neuroticism
- Openness to experience
- Extraversion
22The Big Five Traits
23The Big Five Traits
24The Big Five Traits
25The Big Five Traits
26The Big Five Traits
27The Five-Factor Model of Personality
28Evaluation of Trait Perspective
- Doesnt explain why how personality
(description only) - Doesnt address motives, unconscious, or beliefs
about self affect personality development
29Psychological Tests
- Test is useful if it achieves two basic goals
- Accurately and consistently reflects a persons
characteristics - Predicts future psychological functioning or
behavior
30Self-Report Inventory
- Standardized questions about his or her behavior
and feelings - The answers are then compared to established norms
31MMPI
- Most widely used self-report inventory
- Originally designed to assess mental health and
detect psychological symptoms
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34- Has over 500 questions to which person must reply
True or False - Includes lying scales
35Strengths of Self-Reports
- Standardizedeach person receives same
instructions and responds to same questions
36- Use of established norms results are compared to
previously established norms and are not
subjectively evaluated
37Weaknesses of Self-Reports
- Evidence that people can fake responses to look
better (or worse) - Tests contain hundreds of items and become
tedious - People may not be good judges of their own
behavior
38Psychodynamic Testing
- Projective Tests
- Personality tests that provide ambiguous stimuli
to trigger projection of ones inner thoughts and
feelings
39Psychoanalytical Approach Accessing the
Unconscious Mind
- Rorschach Inkblot Test
- A set of 10 inkblots, without any discernable
patterns or images, are presented to a patient.
Subjects simply identify what they think the
inkblot looks like, and researchers interpret
those identifications as personality
characteristics.
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41- Black ink. A roughly triangular shape, point
down, suggesting a broad, fox like face with
prominent ears. Naughty bits a pair of breasts
(rounded projections at top of blot) a vertical
female figure, her torso partly visible through a
gauzy dress (along center line). The first blot
is easy. How fast you answer is taken as an
indication of how well you cope with new
situations. The best reaction is to give one of
the most common responses immediately. Good
answers are bat, butterfly, moth, and (in center
of blot) a female figure. Mask, jack-o'-lantern,
and animal face are common responses too, but in
some interpretation schemes they suggest
paranoia. A bad response is any that says
something untoward about the central female
figure. "She" is often judged to be a projection
of your own self-image. Avoid the obvious comment
that the figure has two breasts but no head. If
you don't give more than one answer for Plate I,
many psychologists will drop a hint--tell you to
look closer.
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43- Black and red ink. Two dark-gray splotches
suggesting dancing figures. Red splotches at top
of each figure and at bottom center. Naughty
bits penis (upper center, black ink) vagina
(the red area at bottom center). It is
important to see this blot as two human figures
usually females or clowns. If you don't, it's
seen as a sign that you have trouble relating to
people. You may give other responses as well,
such as cave entrance (the triangular white space
between the two figures) and butterfly (the red
"vagina," bottom center). Should you mention
the penis and vagina? Not necessarily. Every
Rorsehach plate has at least one obvious
representation of sexual anatomy. You're not
expected to mention them all. In some
interpretation schemes, mentioning more than four
sex images in the ten plates is diagnostic of
schizophrenia. The trouble is, subjects who took
Psychology 101 often assume they should detail
every possible sex response, so allowances must
be made. Most Rorschach workers believe the sex
images should play a part in the interpretation
of responses even when not mentioned. You may not
say that the lower red area looks like a vagina,
but psychologists assume that what you do say
will show how you feel about women. Nix on
"crab" stick with "butterfly."
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45- Black and red ink. Two obvious .figures (black
ink) facing each other. Butterfly-shaped red blot
between the figures an elongated red blot behind
each figure's head. Naughty bits penises and
breasts (at anatomically appropriate positions
for each figure). This is the blot that
supposedly can determine sexual preference. Most
people see the two human figures. Both figures
have prominent "breasts" and an equally prominent
"penis." If you don't volunteer the gender of the
figures, you'll be asked to specify it. By the
traditional interpretation, seeing the figures as
male is a heterosexual response (for test
subjects of both sexes). Describing the figures
as female or acknowledging the androgynous nature
of the blot is supposed to be a homosexual
response. Does it work? Not really--many
straights describe the figures as women, and not
all gays give a gay response. A 1971 study at
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York showed the
traditionally heterosexual response (two male
figures) to be declining in popularity. The
splotches of red ink are usually perceived
separately. Common responses are "bow-tie" or
"ribbon" (inner red area) and a stomach and
esophagus (outer red areas).
46 Plate V
47- Black ink. A simple, bat like shape. Naughty
bits two penises (the "ears" or "antennae").
Rorschach himself thought this was the easiest
blot to interpret. It is a bat or a butterfly,
period. You don't want to mention anything else.
Seeing the projections on the ends of the bat
wings as crocodile heads signifies hostility.
Seeing the paired butterfly antennae or feet as
scissors or pliers signifies a castration
complex. Schizophrenics sometimes see moving
people in this blot. Many psychologists take
particular note of the number of responses given
to this plate. If you mention more images here
than in either Plate IV or VI, it is suggestive
of schizophrenia.
48Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
- Slightly less ambiguous that the inkblot
- uses real pictures of objects or people
- participant is asked to say what is going on in
the picture, what has happened just before the
event depicted and what will happen afterwards. - Like the inkblot, because the scene is ambiguous,
the individual will project onto the scene
something of themself and in this way their
'inner' or hidden self will be revealed. - The validity of projective tests is very
difficult to assess and therefore they must be
used with extreme caution.
49Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
- what is going on in the picture?
- what has happened just before the event depicted?
- what will happen next?
50- what is going on in the picture?
- what has happened just before the event depicted?
- what will happen next?
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)