Theories
The perspective that focuses on the effect of the environment on behavior.
What is Behaviorist Perspective?
This carries feelings, memories, and thoughts that are hard to retrieve because they are below the surface of our awareness.
What is the unconscious mind?
What is a Trait?
These type of assessments tend to use yes/no or scale responses to specific questions, in order to assess personality.
What are personality inventories?
Defense mechanisms protect this from anxiety. **
What is the ego?
This perspective believes unconscious mental forces shape personality.
What is the Psychodynamic perspective?
This part of the perosnality is the moral center and contains the conscience.
What is the superego?
Vlaue judgemnts of a person's moral and ethical behavior. (e.g. Sam is a good guy.)*
What is character?
These assessments interpret ambiguous stimuli to assess how one projects aspects of their personality .
What are projective tests?
Behavioral characteristics we are born with which is the basis upon which our personality is built. *
What is Temperament?
This perspective focuses on the role of people's conscious life choices and experience on the development of personality.
What is the Humanistic perspective?
This is the reality principle that comes up with a plan to quiet the id but satisfy the superego. (mediator)
What is the ego?
Someone who orders the same dish every time they eat at their favorite restaurant might score low on this.*
What is openness?
This test helps people understand their communication preferences and how they interact with others.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
The infleunce of believing your sucess is determed by outside factors (not in your control).
What is external locus of control?
This perspective focuses on describing characteristics that makeup the personality, in order to predict future behavior.
What is the Trait Perspective?
These two parts of personality are in conflict.
What is id and superego?
Personality is comprised of ________ and ________.*
What are traits and character?
This motivates you to succeed inc gallenging tasks because of the belief that success is within your personal control.
What is internal locus of control?
This theory focuses more on analyzing a person’s actual personality, rather than how the personality develops.
What is Trait theory?
These occur when there is a threat to the ego and function protect the ego from anxiety or stress by distorting reality.
What are defense mechanisms?
The 5 components of the OCEAN model.
What is Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism?
This is the projective personality test in which an individual must interpret ambiguous ink blots. It is believed to “uncover” unconscious desires and urges. **
What is the Rorschach test?
We feel internal peace and harmony when our _______ and _________ are aligned, but when they are mismatched, we feel anxiety, sometimes neurotic behavior. *
What is the real self and ideal self?