Personality

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Personality
Do you have one????
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Different Perspectives

• Psychodynamic
• Unconscious, sexual, motivation, conflict
• Humanistic
• Positive growth, realization of potential
• Trait
• Categorize and describe
• Cognitive- Social Learning
• Think, act, and respond to environment

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Freud

• Id
• Unconscious urges and desires
• Pleasure principle
• Libido
• Superego
• Unconscious and Preconscious
• Moral Guardian, Conscience
• Ego
• Conscious and Preconscious
• Reality Principle, Mediator

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Freud-Psychosexual Stages

• Oral Stage (0-18 months)
• Oral pleasure
• Too muchoverly optimistic and dependent adult
• Too littlepessimistic and hostile
• Fixation leads to lack of confidence,
  gullibility, sarcasm and argumentativeness
• Anal Stage (18 months to 3 ½ years)
• Pleasure from toilet training
• Too strictanal retentive, obstinate, stingy,
  excessively orderly
• Too relaxedanal expulsive, messy, disorganized

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Psychosexual Stages

• Phallic Stage (3-6)
• Oedipal or Electra complex
• Castration Anxiety
• Penis Envy
• Fixation leads to vanity and egotism, shyness,
  low self-esteem, and worthlessness
• Latency Stage (6-13)
• No interest in opposite sex or sexual behavior
• Genital Stage (puberty onward)
• Adult sexual behavior

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Defense Mechanisms

• Anxiety

• Repression
• Rationalization
• Displacement
• Projection
• Regression
• Sublimation

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Other Psychodynamics

• Jung
• Collective Unconscious
• Archetypes

• Alder Horney
• Superiority
• Role of gender and socialization

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Humanistic

• Carl Rogers
• Self-Concept
• Unconditional Positive Regard
• Fully functioning person

Self-concept
Experience
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Trait Theory - Allport

• Types of Traits
• Cardinal
• Central
• Secondary
• Functional Autonomy -

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Big Five Traits

• Extroversion
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness/Dependability
• Emotional Stability
• Openness to Experience

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The BIG FIVE
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Personality Assessment

• Clinical Interview
• Objective Tests
• MMPI
• Myers-Briggs
• Projective Tests
• Rorschach Ink Blots
• Thematic Apperception Test

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Meyer-Briggs

• Extrovert
• Sensing
• Thinking
• Judging

• vs. Introversion
• vs. Intuition
• vs. Feeling
• vs. Perceptive

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