Definition of Personality Pg. 514
Big Qs
• Origin/growth?
• Definition/ core components?
• Stability/ prediction?
Theories
• See summary table pg. 543
• Psychoanalytic Freud • Quote “You are what you were.” • Major Emphasis • Early childhood experience • Role of the unconscious and “scaffold of mind” • Ego- Rational component, mediating, ruled by reality principle • Id- Irrational component, impulsive, ruled by pleasure principle • Superego- Moralistic component, internalizing parental and societal rules • Psychosexual stages pg. 516 (libidinal energy) • Social Cognitive • QUOTE: “You vary across situations” • Person-situation controversy pg. 533ff • Bandura and bidirectional influences • Personality shaped by personality traits, environment, and behaviors pg 536 • Social learning revisited (role models and how we perceive role models) • Perceived control • Internal vs external (pg 537-538)
• Criticism pg 520-523 • Lifelong Development • Role of sexuality • Dreams and slips of tongue • Testability? Theory? • Evidence for repression? • Followers and psychodynamic theory • Adler, Horney, and Jung • Emphasis on social (not sexual) tensions • Humanistic • QUOTE: “You are what you become” • Emphasis on uniqueness and potential • Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (Bottom of triangle= fundamental/physical, middle= psychological/love/belonging/self esteem, top= self actualization • Pursuit of self-actualization • Peak experiences • Carl Rogers pg 524-525
Positive Self Concept pg 525
• The self esteem movement and rise of child centered parenting
• Is self esteem the product or producer of real achievement? (Damon)
• The importance of contingent vs non contingent reinforcement
Traits and Assessment
• Regardless of