PSYC 1315 1st Edition Lecture 25 Last Lecture Psychodynamics Personality Current Lecture Psychodynamics Personality The Big 5 factors model of personality O Openness C Conscientiousness E Extraversion A Agreeableness N Neuroticism Openness Agrees with everything willing to try anything new experiences tolerance creativity curious Conscientiousness Ethical dependable better work performance Extraversion Talkative sociable fun loving affectionate engage in social activities expresses gratitude Agreeableness Sympathetic warm trusting cooperating generosity Neuroticism Emotional stability if you have a lower score it means you are more sensitive higher score means you are more emotionally stable anger depression anxiety Personological approach The uniqueness of each person is to focus on his or her life story and history Murray s approach Personology to refer to the study of the whole person He believed that to understand a person we have to know that persons history physical psych and social Life approach to identity McAdams developed the life story approach to identity A unique life story representing our memories of what makes us who we are Looks at extremes the ups and downs Social Cognitive Perspective Conscious awareness beliefs and expectations Behaviorist roots are observational learning modeling and classical conditioning Learning how to act Banduras Social Cognitive Theory Behavior environment and person and cognitive factors are all important in understanding personality 1 Observational learning bandura see how other people respond and then we adapt to those behaviors 2 Locus of control external I have no control of what happens internal I control what happens to me 3 Self efficiency belief about our own abilities related to a particular situation influences whether people even try to develop healthy habits as well as how much effort they expand in coping with stress how long they persist in the face of obstacles and how much stress and pain they experience Mischel s Contributions This quality of traits suggest that a person should behave consistently in different situations in other worlds individuals should exhibit cross situational consistency Situational consistency is maybe not across situations but may do within a situation only get a certain way during given time but not all the time in every situation Self monitoring is molding behavior to fit in a situation adapting to environment or with the people we are with Personality Tests Self report has a disadvantage of changing response based on how you want someone to see you and an advantage of standardized and objective To make sure people are telling the truth you can be anonymous reverse coding multiple sources about same person Projective Interpret ambiguous stimuli Roschach test is ink test and you have to say what you see TAT test is you are given a picture and you have to say what the story is Type A Behavior pattern Hostile competitive impatient related to heart disease Type B Behavior pattern Relaxed easy going good health
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