Personality

freud

• early childhood conflicts have lasting effects
• personality is shaped by unconscious forces

id, ego, superego

pleasure principle, impulse, primitive, source of libido

reality principle (rational)

• rigid and moralistic
• ego-ideal
• conscience

what we should be

rules for how we should behave

0-18 months; fixation centers around giving up mother's breast

12-18 to 3 yrs; conflict centers around toilet training; expulsive retentive

3 to 5-6 yrs; oedipus conflict: sexual feeling towards opposite sex parent are resolved by identifying with same sex parent

5-6 yrs to puberty: growth in intellect, creativity, and skills

puberty and afterward: mature adult personality and you mate and have sex for satisfaction

remove painful experiences from the conscious mind

putting your own feelings about yourself to another group

express complete opposite of uncomfortable feelings

reverting back to immature behavior

excuse

chose a safer target for your behavior that you want to act out to another person thats causing you that hurt

changing out of the norm urges into socially acceptable behavior

Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney

• extroversion vs introverion
• archetypes

everyone struggles with inferiority complex

basic anxiety

• trait theory-relative stable predisposition to behave in a certain way
• central and secondary traits
• cardinal trait

• factor analysis 16 personalities(source traits),
• surface traits (superficial)

ocean- openess, consciousness, extrovertness, agreeableness, neuroticism

• trait theory-3
• extroversion, neuroticism, psychoticism(impulsivity)

• Behavioral Activating system-reaction to reward (extrovert)
• Behavioral Inhibition System-reaction to punishment-(introvert)

• growth orientation
• deficiency growth

• rorschach ink blot test
• thematic appreciation test
• sentence completion test

minnesota multiphase personality test (MMPI-2)