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Personality Theory & Assessment

Personality Theory & Assessment. Introductory Psychology Chapter 13 Dr. Greg Cook. Outline. Personality : a person’s characteristic patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Psychoanalytic Theories Humanistic Theories Trait Theories Social-Cognitive Theories Personality Assessment.

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Personality Theory & Assessment

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  1. Personality Theory &Assessment Introductory Psychology Chapter 13 Dr. Greg Cook

  2. Outline Personality: a person’s characteristic patterns of behaving, thinking, and feeling. • Psychoanalytic Theories • Humanistic Theories • Trait Theories • Social-Cognitive Theories • Personality Assessment

  3. Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalytic Theory • Born Austria, 1856 • Died London, 1939 Lived at the center of WWI, WWII. Witnessed unimaginable human horrors. Conclusion: the role of society (and religion) is to help socialize humans, help them tame their “inner evil.” Freud often criticized for over-emphasizing aggression and sex as basic human motivations.

  4. Freud: a Short History • Trained as a physician (neurologist) • Worked in science lab comparing brains • Later began his own clinical practice treating neurological disorders • Case: hysterical paralysis • Demonstrated the power of the unconscious mind

  5. 3 Parts of Personality • ID unconscious, biological • Life instinct “Libido” • Death instinct “Thanatos” • EGO learned • SUPEREGO learned, “identification” Perpetual state of inner conflict . . . ever argue with yourself?

  6. The Iceberg Metaphor Click: http://wilderdom.com/personality/L8-3TopographyMindIceberg.html Click: http://encarta.msn.com/media_461543697/The_Mind_as_an_Iceberg.html

  7. Defense Mechanisms • Mostly unconscious, distort reality • See examples, p. 459 • Can be pathological if used to extremes

  8. Stages of Psychosexual Development • See p. 460

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