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On your turkey or a piece of paper

On your turkey or a piece of paper. 1. What characteristics define you? 2. How are you different from others 3. What is most important to you 4. How did you develop your personality?. Complete this test. http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/ LittleBig5B.htm

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On your turkey or a piece of paper

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  1. On your turkey or a piece of paper 1. What characteristics define you? 2. How are you different from others 3. What is most important to you 4. How did you develop your personality?

  2. Complete this test • http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/LittleBig5B.htm • Link is on my webpage make sure you rate it!

  3. Describe your personality

  4. Personality

  5. Definition of personality • A. Organization of an individual’s distinguishing characteristics, traits, or habits B. Includes the individual’s unique way of 1. Thinking 2. Feeling 3. Behaving 4. Experiencing the environment

  6. Tasks 1. analyze groups 2. understand individuals 3. study the personality process 4. develop theories

  7. A. Basic tools 1. Observation 2. interview 3. peer rating 4. self report personality tests

  8. Objective tests • - individual answers questions with response options • Examples-

  9. Projective tests • - individual answers questions with no response restrictions • Examples-

  10. How accurate are personality tests?

  11. Barnum principle • Listing general traits so that almost everyone who reads them thinks that the traits apply specifically to him or her. • ( the traits are so general that they apply to everyone)

  12. Validity VS Reliability Validity • measures what it is supposed to measure Reliability • a person’s score on a test at one point should be the similar to the score obtained by the same person on a similar test

  13. Are the SAT’s valid and reliable?

  14. Assignment Google personality tests Complete 2 personality tests On a piece of paper • Identify the test( name and explanation) • identify if the tests were projective or objective, • Is the test valid and reliable- explain

  15. Answer two of the following • If you were an article of clothing- what would you be • If you were a natural scene- what would you be • If you were a means of conveyance- what would you be • If you were a plant- what would you be • If you were a food item- what would you be?

  16. Make your own test • 3 projective questions • 3 objective questions • 10 people must answer them by Friday, December 2 • ( get your relatives to do this!)

  17. Overview of Theories • Psychoanalytic - we are who we are because of our childhood - we are ruled by our unconscious

  18. Humanism • We have the freedom to grow and choose our own destiny

  19. Social Cognitive Theories • Personality is shaped by the environment, cognitive personal factors, and behaviors. These things interact and influence how we evaluate, interpret, organize and apply information

  20. Learning/Behaviorists • We are controlled by rewards and punishments

  21. Trait theories • Personality is analyzed by measuring, identifying, and classifying similarities and differences in personality characteristics or traits

  22. Psychoanalytic Theory We are who we based on our childhood experiences and our unconscious mind

  23. Instinctual Energy • Life Instinct self preservation • Death Instinct • Leads us to aggression and destruction • Write 2 examples of each

  24. Levels of consciousness • Conscious thought • Thoughts that we are aware of • Preconscious thought • Thoughts that we are not immediately aware of but can retrieve at will • Unconscious thought • Thoughts wishes and desires that we cannot voluntarily access

  25. Freudian Slips- • Mistakes we make when talking which reflect our unconscious thoughts

  26. Ways of understanding the mind • Free Association • Free flowing uncensored talk to provide clues to unconscious thought

  27. Dream interpretation • based on the assumption that dreams have meaning that provide clues to the unconscious mind • Manifest content- actual images • Latent content- what they mean

  28. Common themes Death- Birth- Running away- Being in a car Failing

  29. Tuesday’s quiz Projective vs objective tests Validity and reilability Barnum principle Freud’s psychoanalytic focus - unconscious, preconscious, conscious thought Life and death instinct

  30. Do this now… • Read page 436 and highlight • Rewrite highlighted information on top of page

  31. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnMGCUH-lLY

  32. Personality structures • Id- • Demands immediate gratification • Operates on the pleasure principle • If it is not satisfied you feel like you are missing out on things in life

  33. Ego • Rational buffer between the id and the super ego • Operates on the reality principle

  34. Super Ego- • Incorporates morals, values and standards • If it is not satisfied, you feel guilty

  35. Defense Mechanisms • Defending the ego from experiencing anxiety about failing in its task

  36. Displacement • Taking your feelings out on someone or something less threatening • Examples…

  37. Repression • Blocking out unacceptable feelings or experiences and pushing them into the unconscious

  38. Reaction Formation • Substituting unacceptable behaviors, thoughts or feelings with acceptable ones

  39. Regression • Going back to an earlier less mature state • ex

  40. Projection • Inner personal feeling are placed onto someone else • ex

  41. Rationalizing • Covering up the true reason for doing things with excuses and incorrect explanations

  42. Intellectualizing • Separating thought from feeling so feelings are not overwhelming

  43. Complete defense mechanism I have used…

  44. Demonstrate your understanding of defense mechanisms by… • Preparing a role play for 3 different defense mechanisms • You will be asked to act out one of the defense mechanisms for the class

  45. How will you be graded? • 5 points completed worksheet • 5 points for being prepared when called on • 5 points for properly demonstrating your defense mechanism - extra credit will be given for humor

  46. Psycho sexual stages of development A. Biologically determined stages driven from birth by sexual instinct B. Different zones of the body become sources of pleasure during different stages

  47. Mal adaptive behavior in adults results from unresolved conflicts that originate at any of the stages D. At any time in these stages, a conflict could cause fixation-

  48. Oral Stage (birth – 18 months) • - Sexual pleasure focuses on sucking, biting and chewing • fixation is linked to excessive drinking, gum chewing, biting nails, pencil chewing , excessive eating

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