Personality

1
Personality
2
Criminal Personality Profiling

• PsychPortalgtActivePsychPersonality

3
Trait Personality Theory

• PsychPortalgtVideoPersonality

4
Personality and self-esteem

• PsychPortalgtActivePsychPersonality
• Assessing Self-Esteem

5
Personality and genetics

• Do genes make us happy?
• Movie IVTK3

6
Personality and the brain

• Are our personality traits fixed or can we
  change?
• How a degenerative brain disease effects our
  personality
• Movie IVTK3
• What does this case suggest regarding brain-mind
  connections?

7
Freuds Personality Structure

• What are Freuds three main parts of your
  personality?
• Give an example of each.
• What kinds of problems might a person have if he
  or she was dominated by either the id or superego?

8

• Our sense of morality and right and wrong comes
  from what part of our personality according to
  Freud?

9

• What ego defense mechanisms are there? Example?
• Reaction formation
• Projection
• Rationalization
• Displacement

10

• You cheated on your income taxes, but you feel
  that is ok because everyone does it..
• What ego defense mechanism are you using?

11
Projective tests

• What are examples of projective tests?
• When would each be used?
• What are some problems with projective tests?

12

• Bill is depressed and having strange, inaccurate
  thoughts.
• What test would be most accurate to diagnose his
  condition?
• MMPI

13
How does reciprocal determinism affect
personality?

• What is reciprocal determinism?
• The cause and result form a cycle and determine
  each other
• Example using Banduras 3 factors
• Behavior (Personality)
• Internal personal factors (Thoughts)
• Environmental factors

14

• Janet has an internal locus of control.
• What does that tell you?
• What comments might you expect from her?
• Bill has an external locus of control
• What comments might you expect from him?

15

• Twee did poorly on an exam, what would she say if
  she had
• An internal locus of control
• An external locus of control
• A self-serving bias?

16

• Betty is in a hostile marriage with a very
  controlling husband. She has been beaten several
  times and has given up hope that she would even
  get out of the marriage.
• What has she developed?
• Learned helplessness