1. Types of Personalities
What is personality?
Types of Personalities 1. 2. 3.
____external environment
____temperament
____interpretation of experience
____conscious awareness
____childhood experiences
____rewards and punishments
____abilities
____organizations of reality
____ the self
____ unconscious motives
____ observable behavior
____ enduring characteristics
____ expectations
____ subjective feelings
____ sexual instincts
Psychoanalytical Cognitive Behavioral Humanistic
Neurobiological Sociocultural

2. Why test personality?
TYPES OF TESTS:
General Assessments:

3. Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development
Psychoanalytic Perspective
Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development
Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latent
Genital
fixations

4. Defense Mechanisms 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Neo-Freudians

5. IDENTIFYING DEFENSE MECHANISMS
Label each statement with the correct defense mechanism from the list:
A. Repression E. Displacement
B. Denial F. Sublimation
C. Reaction Formation G. Projection
D. Rationalization
____1. Sarah is heavily involved with an anti-pornography campaign & fights her own erotic interest in it. She hopes her campaign will convince others of her purity.
____2. A young woman who was assaulted & raped a number of years ago in a terrifying attack has forgotten the incident.
____3. Your boss yelled at you, you yelled at your co-worker, your co-worker yelled at his wife , his wife spanked the kid & the kid kicked the dog.
____4.”Stop asking me ! I don’t want any ice cream. I think YOU want more ice cream!”
____5. Eduardo reads an article about skin cancer. He goes home & examines the marks on his leg. He then comments to his friend on the tendency for his family to have very dark moles with irregular borders.
___6. Joshua had a bad semester & was put on academic probation. Instead of returning to college, he quite to “pursue something worthwhile.”
___7. Mia is usually an angry, hostile person. But since she’s been playing on the volleyball team her mood has improved.
___8. You got fired & couldn’t make your car insurance payments, so you’re riding your bike. You tell friends, “I really prefer to ride my bike. I need the exercise.”
___9. A young woman who finds herself attracted to other women proclaims that she hates lesbians & joins a vicious anti-gay group.
___10. The parents of Jim say that “everyone goes through a drinking stage; it’s not a problem” even though Jim just received his third DUI.
___11. Soldiers exposed to traumatic experiences in concentration camps sometimes had amnesia & were unable to recall any of their ordeal.
___12. A priest converts his sexual energy into running a busy soup kitchen to feed the poor.
___13. A woman with a strong sexual drive constantly criticizes her female co-workers for dressing seductively & flirting.

6. HUMANISTIC Perspective
Individualism
vs.
Collectivism

7. Trait Theories 1. 2. 3. PENNESS O ONSCIENTIOUSNESS C XTRAVERSION E
GREEABLENESS
EUROTICISM O C E A N 3.

8. Social-Cognitive Theories on Personality
EXTERNAL VS INTERNAL

9. HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL
Social Psychology
HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL
ATTRIBUTIONS
Cognitive Dissonance Theory 1. 2. 3.

10. Social Relations
DESCRIMINATION
PREJUDICE
vs.
Aggression

11. Attraction 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
LOVE...
Altruism

12. Social Influences OBEDIENCE REASONS for CONFORMITY 1. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4.5. 6. 7.