Personality and Early Theories of Personality
What is personality?
Cultures that place an emphasis on group cohesion, connectedness, and group membership.
What is collectivist culture?
Bodily arousal, expressive behaviors, conscious experiment.
What makes an emotion?
An experiment in which More than ⅓ of the time, college students answered incorrectly just to go along with the group
What is Asch's experiments (line test)?
Tendency to underestimate the impact of a situation and over estimate personal deposition
What is fundamental attribution error?
One of Freud's psychosexual stages that occurs from birth to 1 year and the erogenous zone is the mouth.
What is oral stage?
Someone who seeks simulation because of relatively low brain arousal
What is an extravert?
Arousal + Emotion occur together.
What is Cannon-Bard theory?
Tendency to believe that people get what they deserve
What is the just world phenomenon?
You're assigned to a group project for a class. You and the group get to discussing and agree that you think the class is boring, however, after more discussion the group's feelings escalate to "This is the worst class ever!" and "This class sucks!". What is this example demonstrating?
Freud's three components of personality
What are Id, Ego, and Superego?
The most basic goal in Maslow's hierarchy of needs
What are physiological needs?
Facial muscles trigger corresponding feelings like fear, anger, or happiness.
What is the facial feedback effect?
perception of out-group members as more similar to one another
What is out group homogeneity?
when other people are present, a person is less likely to help another in need
what is the bystander effect?
Theory of personality that says that behavior is an interaction between our conscious and unconscious mind
What is Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality?
Behavior, personality traits, and environment all influence each other.
What is reciprocal determinism?
Believe they are in control and take responsibility for their own actions VS blaming external forces for their own circumstances
What is internal vs external locus of control?
Unselfish concern for the welfare of others
what is altruism?
Love that has passion and commitment?
Regression, Reaction Formation, Projection, Rationalization, Displacement, and Denial are __
What are defense mechanism?
What are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism?
Changing the stressor directly VS ignoring or avoiding the stressor
What is Problem-focused coping VS Emotion-focused coping?
tendency for individuals to form interpersonal relations with those who are close by
what is the proximity effect?
What is the difference between social loafing and social facilitation?
Social loafing is doing WORSE when in a group or others are around, and social facilitation is doing BETTER when others are around.