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Personality

Personality. Personality. The pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is characteristic of an individual. Psychoanalytic perspective Personality shaped by childhood experiences Humanistic perspective Personality shaped by individual experience Trait perspective

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Personality

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  1. Personality

  2. Personality • The pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is characteristic of an individual. • Psychoanalytic perspective • Personality shaped by childhood experiences • Humanistic perspective • Personality shaped by individual experience • Trait perspective • Personality is the sum of identifiable behavior patterns • Social-cognitive perspective • Personality is shaped by learning, thinking and social influence

  3. Freud: Psychoanalytic theory • Basics of psychoanalytic theory • Focus on the unconscious • Conscious • Preconscious • Unconscious • Importance of childhood experiences

  4. Structure of personality • Id • Superego • Ego

  5. Psychosexual development • Oral stage • Anal stage • Phallic stage • Latency stage • Genital stage • Fixation

  6. Defense mechanisms • Repression • Regression • Reaction formation • Projection • Rationalization • Displacement • Sublimation

  7. Psychoanalytic therapy • Free association • Dream analysis

  8. Limitations of psychoanalytic theory • Personality continues to develop throughout life • Influence of social and cultural dynamics • Modern research • Dreams • Memory repression • Psychoanalytic theory is scientifically untestable

  9. Neo-Freudians: Psychodynamic perspective • Carl Jung - focus on the unconscious • Dimensions of personality • Collective unconscious • Alfred Adler & Karen Horney • Importance of childhood social experiences

  10. Erikson: Psychosocial development • Personality results from the resolution of psychosocial crises that occur throughout development • Trust vs. mistrust (infancy-1 year) • Autonomy vs. shame and doubt (1-2 years) • Initiative vs. guilt (3-5 years) • Competence vs. inferiority (6-adolescence) • Identity vs. role confusion (adolescence-young adult) • Intimacy vs. isolation (20s-40s) • Generativity vs. stagnation (40s-60s) • Integrity vs. despair (60+)

  11. Humanistic perspective • Abraham Maslow - hierarchy of needs • Self-actualizing person • Peak experiences • Carl Rogers - person-centered approach • Self concept • Unconditional positive regard • Empathy, genuineness

  12. Trait perspective • Exploring traits • Factor analysis • Personality inventories

  13. Trait perspective • Big 5 personality factors • Openness • Conscientiousness • Extraversion • Agreeableness • Neuroticism

  14. Trait perspective • Epigenetic theory • Interaction of genes and environment

  15. Social-cognitive perspective • Bandura • Reciprocal determinism Cognitive factors Behavior Environmental factors

  16. Social-cognitive perspective • Personal control • Locus of control • Learned helplessness • Attribution style

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