APSYCH Unit 7a part 2

• 1. focuses on person, person centered 
• 2. striving to be good, revolves around person

• 1. created hierarchy of needs 
• 2. reaches self-actualization

• 1. basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieves 
• 2. motivation to fulfill one's potential 
• 3. some people don't attempt to reach this level

• 1. believed in freewill 
• 2. personality is made up of choices 
• 3. people are good and filled genuineness, acceptance and empathy

• 1. total acceptance toward another person 
• 2. develop deeper self-awareness and more realistic self-concept 
• 3. unconditional love

• 1. how others evaluate our worth (peers, family, teachers) 
• 2. depend on evaluation of others

• 1. dispenses between self-concept and actual thoughts 
• 2. ideal self and real self

• 1. fails to appreciate reality of our human capacity for evil "naive" 
• 2. concepts are vague/subjective 
• 3. individualism promotes humanism (self-indulgence, selfishness, moral restrains)

• 1. characteristic pattern of behavior assessed by inventories and peer reports
• 2. stable

• 1. classified people by body type 
• 2. endomorph (big, curvy, content)
• 3. mesomorph (athletic in shape, kind, outgoing) 
• 4. ectomorph (thin, tall, cold)

• 1. reduce many of our normal individual variations to two or three genetically influenced dimensions 
• 2. factor analysis to correlate between traits 
• 3. P.E.N. (psychoticism-caring; extroversion-outgoing;neurotism-emotionally stable)

• 1. 16 personality factors into 2 types, source traits and surface traits 
• 2. source traits: underlying traits that make up person 
• 3. surface traits: traits seen individually, coming form sources traits

1. traits vary on circumstances

• 3 types of traits
• 1. cardinal disposition: one trait that plays a vital role in everything a person does 
• 2. central disposition: primary characteristics seen in person 
• 3. secondary disposition: personality traits that are present but don't define someone

• 1. most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests 
• 2. identify emotional disorders

• Openess - variety/routine 
• Consciousness - organized and nonorganized 
• Extraversion - outgoing, affectionate 
• Agreeableness - softhearted/ruthless
• Neurotism - emoitionally stability

• nomothetic: basic traits are universal with everybody 
• idiographic: traits unique to individual; degree t which we have "Big Five"

applies principal of learning, cognition, and social behavior personality

self-efficacy: person's belief about own ability it given situation increases;

personality influence and our influence by interaction with enviroment

• 1. Julian Rotter 
• 2. perception that one control one own's fate

• perception that chance beyond one's personal control determines one's fate
• ex: did bad on test, teacher hates you

• the perception that one controls own's fate
• ex: succeed in test, study

hopelessness and unable to avoid repeated aversive events

personal construct theory: in order to undertand the world, people develop personal construct. ex: diff idea of love

best way to predict someone's behavior in given situation, observe person's behavior pattern in similar situations

mostly interested about studying "self"

• others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders 
• ex: tripping

• 1. one's feelings of high or low self-esteem
• 2. high: pressures to conform, less likely to use drugs, persistent in diff. tasks

a readiness to perceive oneself favorably

understanding one self

one's identity to terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications

priority to the goals of one's group and defining one's identity accordingly