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General Psychology

General Psychology. Chapter 12: Personality. Personality?. Personality: an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting Psychoanalytic Theory Id, Ego, Superego and defense mechanisms revisited Personality development through psychosexual stages

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General Psychology

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  1. General Psychology Chapter 12: Personality

  2. Personality? • Personality:an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting • Psychoanalytic Theory • Id, Ego, Superego and defense mechanisms revisited • Personality development through psychosexual stages • Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious: shared repository of species images – origins of myth and recurrent stories • Humanistic Theory • Abraham Maslow revisited • Carl Rogers: the importance of unconditional positive regard; genuineness, acceptance, and empathy; development of self-concept

  3. Video Personality and the Brain

  4. Finding “Traits” • Trait:a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to fee and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports • Empirically-derived tests • Series of questions • Administer questions to a large number of individuals • Run statistics (factor analysis) to see which items tend to vary together • Review sets of items for possible connections to personality or trait characteristics • Look for response patterns characteristic of known groups • Do people who are depressed tend to respond to the items in a particular way?

  5. Exercise Handout 12-11

  6. The “Big 5”(CANOE)

  7. Fictional Characters Exercise

  8. Big 5 Coorelates(Handout) • Have been in (or currently in) therapy/counseling? • Been addicted to the Internet? • Ever cheated on a college test? • Ever had a spring break in Florida or Mexico? • Ever dated a person of a different race or nationality? • Ever kept a personal journal or diary of your life and feelings? • Ever read twelve or more books in one year, not counting those for school assignments? • Ever marched or protested against an injustice? • Ever fallen in love at first sight? • Ever thrown a party for twenty or more people? • Ever gotten drunk for the sake of getting drunk? • Ever written a poem spontaneously (not for a class assignment)? • Ever smoked marijuana? • Ever listened to music by yourself in the dark? • Ever had a lover whose name you have forgotten? • Ever pulled an all-nighter to complete an assignment?

  9. Big 5 Coorelates Dollinger, S.J. (2004). “Predicting personlity-behavior relations: A teaching activity.” Teaching of Psychology.

  10. Big 5 Coorelates Dollinger, S.J. (2004). “Predicting personlity-behavior relations: A teaching activity.” Teaching of Psychology.

  11. Exercise Revisited(Scoring) • Reverse-score items 2, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 21, 23, 24, 27, 31, 34, 35, 37, 41, 43 (1=5, 2=4, 3=3, 4=2, 5=1) • Conscientiousness • Add 3, 8, 13, 18, 23, 28, 33, 38, 43; Range 9 to 45 (higher = more conscientious) • Agreeableness • Add 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37, 42; Range 9 t0 45 (higher = more agreeable) • Neuroticism • Add 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, 34, 39; Range 8 to 40 (higher = more neuroticism) • Openness • Add 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 41, 44 (higher = more openness) • Extraversion • Add 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31, 36; Range 8 to 40 (higher = more extraverted)

  12. Big 5(Sample Graph)

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