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Personality
Definitions
People and perspectives
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Personality defined: per sona
What makes us recognizably the same from time to time and from place to place
Patterns of behavior and thinking (Carlson) “...your characteristic pattern of thinking,
feeling, and acting” (Myers). Setting may influence personality, but
strong or rigid personalities are consistent.
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Personality
An individual’s pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that persists across
time and situations
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Personality and psychology
Biology of personality? Personality development? Personal learning styles? Individual differences?
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Trait theories
Personality can best be understood as a pattern of enduring characteristics, called traits.
Allport: Personality word analysis• The five-factor model (“The big five”)• Neuroticism or emotional stability,
extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness
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Factor analysis-based trait theories Cattell and the 16PF
• Source traits and surface traits• Examples: Cool-warm, concrete-abstract,
expedient-conscientious
Eysenck’s three factors• Extraversion• Neuroticism• Psychoticism
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The psychosexual development model of Sigmund Freud Oral, anal, and phallic stages Latency Genital stage Identification: Oedipus and Electra Development vs. fixation Defense mechanisms
• Denial, projection, repression, sublimation, reaction formation
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Criticisms of Freudian psychoanalysis Social conflict, not sexual: Horney and
Adler--Id, ego, and super-ego Development is different Sexual repression and psychological
disorders But: Repression is currently controversial A Christian critique?
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Biological factors
Temperament and heredity Reactivity of brain centers Drug influences
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Humanistic views of personality
Maslow and self-actualization Carl Rogers and RESUPR Self psychology
• Self-concept• Self-esteem• Self-serving bias
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Social-Cognitive theories
Bandura’s reciprocal determinism Locus of control (Rotter) Learned helplessness (Seligman)
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Personality testing
Personality questionnaires and inventories• MMPI-2, 16PF, EPQ• Myers-Briggs?
Projective tests• Thematic Apperception Test• Rorschach Test