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Personality

Personality. Psychology Ms. Currey. 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?.

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Personality

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  1. Personality Psychology Ms. Currey

  2. Do Now: • In your journal: • Describe your personality with at least 4 descriptive words.

  3. What is Personality? • My definition: How each individual person feels, thinks, and acts

  4. 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.

  5. HOW do people study personality? http://www.patricialin.com/images/confused.bmp

  6. 4 different approaches: • 1. Trait theory • 2. Psychoanalytic theory • 3. Humanistic Theory • 4. Social Cognitive Theory

  7. TODAY…. • We are going to focus on the Trait Theory http://www.fpsrantings.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/no-personality.jpg

  8. 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.

  9. Problem • Are traits really unchanging? Maybe I’m ONLY loud and annoying in psychology classes! http://www.clown-ministry.com/images/forever-darling-lucille-ball.jpg

  10. Where do traits come from? • A few different ideas about this

  11. Hippocrates- a Greek dr. • Thought 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

  12. According to Hippocrates, all of the fluids needed to be balanced • Some sicknesses were thought to be a result of a lack of balance http://www.cctexas.com/images/g17/GlassesOfWater.jpg

  13. How do you fix lack of balance in fluids? • Throw up! • Or bleed! • NO scientific evidence to back this up http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/throw_up.jpg

  14. Today things are a bit different • Now psychologists give tests and ask people questions to figure out what traits a person has. http://www.junkscience.com/JSJ_Course/jsjudocourse/test3.jpg

  15. 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).

  16. 5 Factor Model • Recently, psychologists have developed a theory that there are 5 basic personality traits: CANOE! • 1. Conscientiousness • 2. Agreeableness • 3. Neuroticism: Emotional Stability • 4. Openness to Experience • 5. Extroversion

  17. 1. Extroversion • Are you talkative, assertive and active? • OR are you quiet, passive and reserved? http://www.frumster.com/img/Forum/ExtrovertIntrovert.jpg

  18. 2. Agreeableness • Are you kind, honest, and like-able? • OR are you mean, selfish, and un-trustworthy? http://ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/images/uploads_img/kindness_day.jpg

  19. 3. Conscientiousness • Are you organized, reliable and hardworking? • OR are you careless, neglectful and unrealiable? http://www.organizingla.com/organizingla_blog/images/2007/09/30/get_organized.jpg

  20. 4.Neuroticism: Emotional Stability-Instability • Can you cope with difficult situations well? • OR do you get nervous, moody, and deal poorly with bad events? http://www.tc.gc.ca/TDC/publication/tp13959e/images/coping.jpg

  21. 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

  22. 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.

  23. For example: • I think that I am pretty emotionally stable, but SOMETIMES I don’t deal well with difficult situations.

  24. 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

  25. 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?

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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

  29. Research also being done • On the links between the 5 factors and psychological disorders like anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide. http://www.drmcbee.com/images/disorders_eye.jpg

  30. Problems with the Trait Theory • Doesn’t explain exactly where traits come from

  31. Or investigate how people with “bad” traits can change for the better http://images.google.co.th/imgres?imgurl=http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/QUESTION.jpg&imgrefurl=http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratsq4r.html&h=874&w=750&sz=196&hl=en&start=7&um=1&usg=__c2NZ9Z0hGnaQ-UCRU-HV4eumn3s=&tbnid=Bu_MUiY0O2zW5M:&tbnh=146&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dquestion%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

  32. How do we measure our traits? Projective Tests: people project unconscious motives onto an image by telling a story.

  33. Objective Test (more valid and reliable) • Most common: MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) version 2. • You get to take it! Yay! • http://www.hypnoticmp3.com/articles/mmpr2-online-test.shtml

  34. Analyze your score! • Record your T-score results for the following traits: • 1. Social Introversion • 2. Need for Affection • 3. Hypocondriasis • 4. Anxiety • 5. Amorality • 6. Hostility • 7. Low Motivation • 8. Explosive Behavior • 9. Multiple Fears • 10. Shyness Before you leave, show your scores to Ms. Currey and she will tell you where you fit according to the big 5 traits. SAVE YOUR RESULTS!!!!!!

  35. Homework: • Read pp 343-350 in your textbook. • As you read, think about the following: What are some of the flaws of the trait theory?

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