Personality Traits
Qualities that are stable and a person shows them in most situations.
What are personality traits?
Adult responsibilities/roles can create pressure for some patterns of personality change.
What is the Maturity Principle?
Objective, projective, implicit, and behavior/performance tests.
What are personality tests?
This theory explains personality in terms of UNCONSCIOUS psychological processes.
What is psychodynamic theory?
This female psychoanalyst emphasized cultural influences on our personality development.
Who was Karen Horney?
Consistency, stability, and individual differences.
What are the 3 criteria that make a trait?
This begins during infancy and becomes more stable as we age.
What is temperament?
This type of personality test has a standard set of questions, and the responses are scored.
What are objective tests?
This visual model of psychodynamic theory illustrates the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind.
What is the Iceberg Model?
One of Karen Horney's 3 personality types that involves moving AGAINST other people.
What is Hostile Type?
Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What is the Big 5 or Five Factor model?
This negative trait emerges by the time a child is 3 and remains stable throughout adulthood.
What is agression?
This type of personality test is based on the idea tha thoughts, feelings, and motives exist OUTSIDE of our conscious awareness.
What are projective tests?
This defense mechanism is the refusal to recognize or acknowledge a threatening situation.
What is the denial?
Horney's concept that says there is tension between a person's real self and their idealized self.
This Big-5 trait is characterized by fantasy, openness to feelings, and openness to different values.
What is openness?
This trait increases with age, peaks at ages 18-20, and becomes less with age.
What is sensation-seeking?
This type of test is based on the idea that people form automatic associations between concepts, based on their previous life experiences.
What are implicit tests?
This defense mechanism is an unconscious denial of something that causes anxiety.
What is repression?
This female psychoanalyst believed that the mother-daughter relationship is essentially different from the mother-son relationship.
Who is Nancy Chodorow?
Narcissism, psychopathy, and machiavellianism together, form this theory.
What is dark triad?
This psychological trait becomes LESS from a woman's 40s thru 50s and is NOT related to menopause.
What is femininity?
This type of test relies on direct observations of a person's behavior.
What are Behavior & Performance tests?
This defense mechanism involves retreating to an earlier stage of life when there was no anxiety.
What is regression?
What is Object Relations Theory?