Lecture Outline What is personality Individuals enduring patterns Of thoughts feelings and behaviors Expressed in different circumstances Traits not state Theories of Personality How we describe and explain those enduring patterns Pre psychological Trait theory Cognitive social theory Psychodynamic theory Humanistic theory Personality before psychology Balance of humors blood black bile yellow bile phlegm Determines personality o Sanguine o Choleric o Phlegmatic o Melancholic Trait Theory Traits are enduring patterns across context Observed traits stem from enduring patterns of internal processes Extroversion Introversion Sociable and risk taking versus socially inhibited and cautious Neuroticism Emotional Stability Anxious and moody versus emotionally stable Psychoticism Impulse control Antisocial and impulsive versus empathic and in control The BIG 5 OCEAN o o o o o Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism Cognitive Social theory Behavioral emphasis on learning Congitive focuses on RELEVANT situations Focuses on beliefs expectation and information processing in response to RELEVANT situations Assumes humans are essentially rational Assumes humans are self regulating Psychodynamic Theories of Personality Sigmund Freud et all o Erikson o Jung Loving and aggressive instincts Freud o We re driven to fight and to fornicate like other primates o Civilization leads us to be discontent Clinical Foundation o Personality as one big symptom Freud Freud We re barely conscious Consciousness and rationality are only the surface Unacceptable wishes lead to anxiety Personality as the individual s characteristic ways of defending against anxiety Freud s structural Models of personality Id infantile mind at birth o Seat of instincts Ego learning planning maintain psychic homeostasis o Meditates wishes and reality Superego internalized parents conscience and Ego ideals o Prohibits Personality as which agency typically dominates thoughts feelings and behaviors Freud s developmental model Personality as fixation at a certain stage Stages are defined according to erogenous zones Personality developed by early middle childhood Jung s Personality Theory 3 types Introverted extraverted Sensing feeling Intuitive thinking o Personal and collective unconscious Humanistic theory Self actualization We are EACH innately disposed to strive toward positive growth Conditions of worth and unmet needs get in the way The client knows the best Maslow s hierarchy of needs Personality assessment Why assess Vocational what jobs best suit Methods of personality assessment Observation and interviewing Self inventories
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