Personality Chapter 11

1. Personality Chapter 11 Sang, Anya, Spencer, Samijo, Somchay and Simon

2. Measuring Personality Sang

3. Measuring Personality 1. Personality Inventories • MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)

4. 2. Projective Techniques • Rorschach Inkblot Test

10. 2) TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)

12. Questions • MMPI is a projective technique. T/F • Is TAT an objective tool for evaluating personality? Y/N

13. Personality Traits Anya

15. Four Basic Types of Personality • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7mEh53rTc0

16. Big Five • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvYlZDniKM

17. Id, Ego and Superego&Genes, Traits And Personality Spencer Tahan

18. Textbook Definition • Id – Is the part of the mind containing the drives present at birth; it is the source of our bodily needs, wants, desires, and impulses, particularly our sexual and aggressive drives. • Ego – Is the component of personality, developed through contact with the external world, that enables us to deal with life’s practical demands. • Superego – The mental system that reflects the internalization of cultural rules, mainly learned as parents exercise their authority.

19. Definition in plain English • Id – The quote “Patience is a virtue” would never work here. • Ego – Without this we would be in chaos. • Superego – It’s what makes us feel anxious or guilty whenever we do something negative, but also rewards us with pride and self rewards when we do something positive.

20. Anxiety • Everyone hates it, so why does it happen to us? • Ego and Superego govern each other, when Ego is about to do something foolish, Superego jumps in and makes us have the sensation of anxiety. Which then makes the Ego try to defend itself by using Repression, Repression is best defined as Forceful Forgetting.

21. Genes, Traits, and Personality • Genes are half of what make us who we are, the other %50 comes from real life experiences and other minor factors. • Researchers found a way to measure how closely genes are related to how similar you are to other people. How they experimented this was using Twins, both Identical and Fraternal Twins. • They found out that identical twins were much more similar in personality than when compared with fraternal twins.

22. Outside Experiences • How do outside experiences influence us, they can be major such as living in the USA compared to living in a 3rd world country. Or minor such as wearing different clothes. • Identical twins who were split apart at birth to different adoptive homes, even though were in completely different outside experiences, still grew up to have very similar personalities.

23. Traits in the Brain • The most basic way to differentiate people is by lumping then in 2 columns, Extroverts, and Introverts. Extroverts need higher stimulation to the Reticular Formation because it is not as sensitive as an Introvert. While Introverts need less stimulation, ie reading or being alone because their Reticular Formation is much more sensitive.

24. Questions • Do fraternal or identical twins have more in common? • What causes us to be either extraverts or introverts?

25. Defense Mechanismsand Psychosexual Stages Samijo

26. Defense Mechanisms Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUPR9Kjk9Go

27. PSYCHOSEXUAL STAGES 5 5 to 13 13+

28. Questions • Which defense mechanism was displayed in the video when the guy held back from doing something violent? • What stage are you in while in the age group of 3 to 5 years old?

29. Social Cognitive Psychology Simon

30. Social-cognitive Approach • How people think about situations and respond to them.

31. Person-Situation Controversy • Behavior is often caused more by responding to situations than by personality. • Is there no personality? Is behavior simply the result of responses to situations? • Psychologists look for similar behavior in similar types of situations.

32. Personal Constructs • Experience happens “in the eye of the beholder”. • The way people see a situation determines how people will respond to it. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2EirLJqghA&feature=related

33. Goals and Expectations • Behavior in a situation is influenced by our goals and “outcome expectancies”. • People act a certain way to get things in the near future. • The way people feel about things is defined as their “lotus of control”. (internal and external)

34. Questions • What personal constructs may you have? • How do goals affect your participation?

35. Self Actualization, Existential approach and Self-Concept Somchay

36. Maslow hierarchy of needs

37. Self-actualization tendency • Human needs • Realizing Inner potential • True nature and capabilities

38. Existential approach • Life meaning • Death • Angst • Defense mechanism

39. Self-concept • Self narrative • Attributes of self • Children self-concept • Adult self-concept • Self verification

40. Self-esteem • Significant others (Brown,1993.) • Comparison (James, 1890) pg. 357 • Low self-esteem • High self-esteem • Self-serving bias • Narcissim

41. Men’s marathon 2008 Olympics Weight lifting 1952 Olympics

42. Questions • What is angst? • What is the difference between people living their lives around their true nature vs. those who don’t?

43. In Conclusion… • Measuring personality – tests that define a person’s personality • Personality traits – terms that define how individuals behave • Id, ego and superego – the main components of a persons personality • Defense mechanisms – the minds unconscious ways of dealing with anxiety • Social Cognitive Psychology – how people think and respond to situations • Humanistic-Existential Approach – how we view ourselves