Approaches to Personality
Personality is based on how a person thinks
What is Social Cognitive Approaches?
Imaginative vs. down - to - earth
Likes variety vs. likes routine
Independent vs. conforming
What is Openness to experience?
Refusing to acknowledge source of anxiety
What is denial?
Born between about 1980 and 1995
What are millennials?
In psychodynamic theory, the component of personality that is completely submerged in the unconscious and operates according to the pleasure principle
What is id?
Personality can be described by the individuals characteristics
What is Trait approaches?
Worried vs. calm
Insecure vs. secure
Self - pitying vs. self - satisfied
What is Neuroticism?
Creating a seemingly logical reason or excuse for behavior that might otherwise be shameful
What is rationalization?
Name for people born between 1945 and 1964
What is a baby boomer or old fart?
Last from birth to approximately 18 months
What is the oral stage?
Personality is based on the tendency to fulfill potential through personal growth
What is Humanistic Approaches?
Softhearted vs. ruthless
Trusting vs. suspicious
Helpful vs. uncooperative
What is Agreeableness?
Excluding source of anxiety from awareness
What is repression?
Over inflated self - esteem
What is a narcissist?
In psychodynamic theory, the component of personality that reflects the internalization of societal and parental standards of conduct
What is superego?
Personality is based on unconscious wishes that create conflict between the id, ego, and super ego
What is Psychodynamic Theory?
Social vs. retiring
Fun - loving vs. sober
Affectionate vs. reserved
What is Extraversion?
Channeling socially unacceptable impulses into constructive, even admirable, behavior
What is sublimation?
High probability of rejection
What is a possibility of having low self - esteem?
In psychodynamic theory, the component of personality that tries to satisfy the wishes of the id while being responsive to the superego.
What is ego?
Members tend to emphasize individuality and freedom of self-expression
What is individualist cultures?
Organized vs. disorganized
Careful vs. careless
Self - disciplined vs. weak - willed
What is Conscientiousness?
Attributing unacceptable qualities of the self to someone else
What is projection?
Name for people born after 1995 and 2004
What is Generation Z?
Freuds psychodynamic theory that has been largely abandoned.
What doesn't use todays accepted scientific method?