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Theories of Personality (Psychodynamic Perspectives (Freud's…

- - - - Conscious mind: Level aware of immediate surroundings and perceptions
      - Unconscious mind: Level in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness are kept
      - Preconscious mind: Information is available but not current conscious
    - - ID: Part of personality present at birth and completely unconscious
        
        Pleasure Principle: Immediate satisfaction of needs without regard for the consequences
        
        Libido: Instinctual energy that may come into conflict with demands of a society's standards for behavior
  - - - Anal Stage: Primary conflict- Toilet training (Ego develops)
      - Phallic Stage: Primary conflict- Awakening of sexual feelings and sexual curiosity
      - Oral Stage: Primary conflict-weaning
      - Latency Stage: Libido- Instinctual energy that may come into conflict with demands of a society's standards for behavior
      - Genital Stage: Sexual feelings re awaken with appropriate targets
- - - - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Based on Jung's theory of personality types
      - MMPI-2: Designed to detect abnormal behavior or thinking patterns in personality
      - NEO-PI: Based on the five-factor model
- - - - Unconditional positive regard: Given without conditions or strings attached
      - Conditional positive regard: Given only when person doing what providers of positive regard wish
    - - Real self: Actual characteristics, traits, and abilities
      - Ideal self: What one should be or would like to be
  - - - Self-concept: The image of oneself that develops from interactions with significant people in one's life
- - - - Reciprocal Determinism: Explanation of how the factors of environment, personal characteristics, and behavior can interact to determine future behavior
      - Self-efficacy: An individual's perception of how effective a behavior will be in any particular circumstance
    - - Locus of control: Internal vs. External
      - Expectancy: A person's subjective feeling that a particular behavior will lead to a reinforcing consequence
      - Reinforcement value: A person's preference for a reinforcer
- - - - Believed there were 200 traits, that were part of the nervous system/No evidence for this at the time
    - - Reduced number of traits to 16
        
        Surface traits: Aspects of personality that can be easily seen by other people in outward actions
        
        Source traits: The more basic traits that underlie the surface traits, forming the core of personality
  - - - Model of personality traits that describes five basic trait dimensions (O C E A N)- Modern trait theory