1. Chapter 12 Personality

2. Personality Consistent Tendency: behavior across situations
Distinctiveness: Individual personality traits

3. Personality An individuals unique set of consistent behavioral traits
Stability of behavior over time
Behavioral differences among people reacting to the same situation ( distinctiveness )

4. Personality Trait
A durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations

5. The Five Factor Model Extraversion:
outgoing, sociable, upbeat, friendly, assertive, gregarious
Positive
Happy
Motivated to pursue social contact, intimacy, interdependency

6. Five Factor Model 2. Neuroticism
anxious, hostile, self conscious, insecure,
vulnerable
Negative
Overreact to stress
Impulsive, emotionally unstable

7. Five Factor Model 3. Openness to Experience
curious, flexible, imagination, artistic, sensitive, unconventional attitudes
Tolerant
Less need for closure on issues
Liberal politics, less prejudice

8. Five Factor Model Agreeableness
sympathetic, trusting, cooperative, modest,
straightforward
Constructive approach to conflict resolution
Less quarrelsome, empathy, helping
Opposite: suspicious, antagonistic, aggressive

9. Five Factor Model 5. Conscientiousness
Disciplined, well organized, punctual,
dependable
Constraint
Strong self discipline
Diligence & dependability

10. Psychoanalytic Theory
Attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious behavior
Developed by Freud, and later by Jung and Adler
Focus on early childhood experiences, unconscious motives and conflicts

11. Psychoanalysis Lengthy verbal instructions with patients
Developed by Freud
An attempt to probe deeply into patients lives by making them aware of their unconsciousness

12. Freud
Behavior governed by unconsciousness Childhood experiences Emphasis on sexual urges

13. Freud’s Structure of Personality
ID: primitive, instinctive, seeks pleasure – Pleasure Principle
Ego: Reality principle, decision making, mediates between ID ( desire ) and socially acceptable behavior
Superego: Moral component, guilt

14. Freud’s Levels of Awareness
Conscious: Whatever one is aware of at particular point in time
Preconscious: Easily retrieved material just beneath the surface of awareness.
Unconsciousness: Thoughts and desires we