personality psychology 12 ms. rebecca. do now: in your journal: describe your personality with at...
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Personality
Psychology 12Ms. Rebecca
Do Now:
In your journal: Describe your personality with at
least 4 descriptive words.
What is Personality?
My definition: How each individual person feels, thinks, and acts
Why do people care about Personality?
Helps us to achieve goal #3: Predict how different people will act in different life situations.
-If we understand a bit about peoples’ personalities, we can get along better with them.
HOW do people study personality?
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5 different approaches:
1. Trait theory 2. Psychoanalytic theory 3. Learning Theory 4. Humanistic Theory 5. Sociocultural Theory
TODAY….
We are going to focus on the Trait Theory
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What is a trait?
Trait Part of your personality that doesn’t really change. Example: I’m very loud and annoying all the time so that would be a personality trait for me.
Problem
Are traits really unchanging? Maybe I’m ONLY loud and annoying in grade 12 psychology classes!
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Where do traits come from?
A few different ideas about this
Hippocrates- a Greek dr.
Thoiught that traits came from body fluids:
Yellow Potty: Quick temper
Red Blood: Warmth and cheerfulness
Yellow Mucus: Sluggish and cool
Black bile (poo poo): thoughtful
http://legyozod.freeblog.hu/files/Mr_Hankey_the_Christmas_Poo_by_StaceyW.jpg
According to Hippocrates, all of the fluids needed to be balanced
Some sicknesses were thought to be a result of a lack of balance
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How do you fix lack of balance in fluids?
Throw up! Or bleed!
NO scientific evidence to back this up
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Today things are a bit different
Now psychologists give tests and ask people questions to figure out what traits a person has.
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Do traits define a person
Yes according to believers of the trait theory
“A person’s behavior is a product of a person’s combination of traits which are the building blocks of personality” (Gordon Allport).
5 Factor Model
Recently, psychologists have developed a theory that there are 5 basic personality traits:
1. Extroversion 2. Agreeableness 3. Conscientiousness 4. Emotional Stability 5. Openness to Experience
1. Extroversion
Are you talkative, assertive and active?
OR are you quiet, passive and reserved?
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2. Agreeableness
Are you kind, honest, and like-able?
OR are you mean, selfish, and un-trustworthy?
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3. Conscientiousness
Are you organized, reliable and hardworking?
OR are you careless, neglectful and unrealiable?
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4. Emotional Stability-Instability
Can you cope with difficult situations well?
OR do you get nervous, moody, and deal poorly with bad events?
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5. Openness to Experience
Are you imaginative, curious and creative
OR are you shallow, only thinking about yourself and unable to see or try anything new?
http://images.google.co.th/images?hl=en&q=Curious%20George&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Different Levels of the 5 factors
You won’t always be able to define yourself as completely having one trait, such as Extroversion.
There are different degrees of the factors.
For example:
I think that I am pretty emotionally stable, but SOMETIMES I don’t deal well with difficult situations.
So psychologists ask people to rate how much people can identify with certain traits
By circling the trait they identify most with and then drawing a point on a line to show HOW much they identify with it:
Example:
NOT agreeable__________X_Agreeable
So what makes you have certain levels of each of the 5 factors?
Why are some people extroverted, agreeable, and open to new things while others are close minded, mean, and selfish?
Believers of the 5 traits say:
Traits are with you when you are born. They mature as we grow up.
NOT really a product of our environment but the way we express our traits may be affected by our culture. Example: Someone who is an extrovert may keep quiet in a lecture setting.
Why should we care about the 5 factor model?
What is it used for?
It helps psychologists to diagnose psychological problems that need to be fixed.
More research
Is being done on how the 5 factors are connected with the way people interact with their friends and family.
http://images.google.co.th/images?hl=en&q=Curious%20George&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Research also being done
On the links between the 5 factors and psychological disorders like anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide.
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Problems with the Trait Theory
Doesn’t explain exactly where traits come from
Or investigate how people with “bad” traits can change for the better
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Homework
Make picture notecards of the following words:
Personality Trait Introvert Extrovert Agreeableness Conscientiousness Emotional Stability-Instability Openness to Experience 5 Factor Model