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Personality. Defining and Measuring Personality. “Who am I?” – what makes a personal quality part of your personality? characteristic, enduring pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. My observations of you. Results from personality testing. Assessing Personality.
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Defining and Measuring Personality • “Who am I?” – what makes a personal quality part of your personality? • characteristic,enduringpattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
My observations of you Results from personality testing
Assessing Personality Rorschach Inkblot Test TAT
Assessing Personality Objective measures (examples from your text?)
Different perspectives on personality • psychoanalytic • biological / trait • humanistic • social-cognitive
The Psychoanalytic Perspective • Psychoanalysis • Background • Freud’s theory in a nutshell -- thoughts and actions are driven by unconscious motives and conflicts
Psychoanalysis • Free Association • Interpretation of dreams and “slips”
Freud’s Personality Theories • Personality Structure • Personality Development
Personality Structure Mediator: Ego Internalized ideals: Superego Unconsciouspsychic energy: Id
Personality Development • Psychosexual Stages • stages of development: pleasure-seeking energies focus on erogenous zones (i.e., oral, anal, phallic…) • Oedipus Complex
Fixation • Freud’s belief that we can get “stuck” at an earlier stage (where conflicts were unresolved)… • Nail-biting, etc.? • Don’t be so “anal”
Defense Mechanisms • The Ego’s methods of reducing anxiety – by unconsciously distorting reality • Repression • Regression • Displacement (“mechanisms of defense” exercise)
What can we say about Freud? • Scientific? • Impact • Psychology & madness • Everyday language • Why? • Sex • Turn-of-the-century science • Applicable
Biological / Trait perspective We’ve discussed this perspective a lot already this semester… Examples…?
Humanistic Perspective • Background • Major theorists: • Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) -- self-actualization (the motivation to fulfill one’s potential) • Carl Rogers (1902-1987) -- growth and fulfillment of individuals -- requires: • genuineness • acceptance - unconditional positive regard • empathy
Humanistic Perspective • Recognizes the impact of culture on personality • Individualism vs. Collectivism
Internal personal/ cognitive factors (enjoy high-risk activities) Environmental factors (rock-climbing friends) Behavior (learning to rock climb) Social-Cognitive Perspective • Reciprocal Determinism • the interacting influences between personality, behavioral, & environmental factors
Social-Cognitive Perspective • Personal Control • our sense of how well we control our environments • Locus of control scale (handout – if we have time) • External Locus of Control -- the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate • Internal Locus of Control -- the perception that one controls one’s own fate
Uncontrollable bad events Perceived lack of control Generalized helpless behavior Social-Cognitive Perspective – Learned Helplessness • Learned Helplessness
The Four Perspectives on Personality Perspective Behavior Springs From Assessment Techniques Evaluation Psychoanalytic Unconscious conflicts Projective tests aimed at A speculative, hard-to-test between pleasure-seeking revealing unconscious theory with enormous cul- impulses and social restraints motivations tural impact Trait Expressing biologically (a)Personality inventories A descriptive approach crit- influenced dispositions, such that assess the strengths icized as sometimes under- as extraversion or introversion of different traits estimating the variability (b)Peer ratings of behavior of behavior from situation patterns to situation Humanistic Processing conscious feelings (a)Questionnaire A humane theory that about oneself in the light of assessments reinvigorated contemporary one’s experiences (b)Empathic interviews interest in the self; criticized as subjective and sometimes naively self-centered and optimistic Social-cognitive Reciprocal influences between (a)Questionnaire assessments Art interactive theory that in- people and their situation, of people’s feelings of control tegrates research on learning, colored by perceptions of (b) Observations of people’s cognition, and social behavior, control behavior in particular criticized as underestimating situations the importance of emotions and enduring traits Personality- Summary