cognitive, trait, social learning, and behavioral ...

Welcome to the Personality Unit

Learning Targets: Compare and contrast the major theories and approaches

to explaining personality: psychoanalytic, humanistic,

cognitive, trait, social learning, and behavioral.

Identify Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung & Anna Freud.

Differentiate between the Id, Ego & Superego.

What is Personality?

“Characteristic pattern of thinking,

feeling and acting.”

Psychologist who study personality focus on the

enduring traits and qualities we demonstrate over

time.

How does Gender Connect to Personality?

Males:38%= Strong27% = Competitive26%= Immature 21%= Lazy3-way tie for 19%Goofy, Assertive, Brave

Females:38% = Emotional29% = Caring28% = Sensitive27%= Smart Tie for 21% = Loving & Sweet

Types of Personality Perspectives● Psychoanalytic - unconscious drives &

motivations

● Trait - specific characteristics of

personality

● Humanistic - inner capacity for growth

● Social-Cognitive - influence of

environment and society

Sigmund Freud ● Born May 6, 1856● Father of Psychoanalysis Perspective ● You either LOVE him or HATE him● Most popular dead psychologist● Believed that there are unlearned

biological instincts (especially of a sexual and/or aggressive nature) that can occur early in life and these instincts influence how a person thinks, feels, and behaves

Psychoanalysis Freud’s theory that our current thoughts & actions are due to unconscious motives and conflicts from our past.

Also, the therapy technique in which a patient lies on a couch ...Free Association: relaxing & saying any word that comes to mind

Fraud Man and Broman

The Iceberg

Conscious: our awareness

Preconscious: we can easily retrieve these thoughts

Unconscious: unaware of these thoughts (Freud said these were naughty, bad, sexual, aggressive thoughts)

pleasure principle

Reality Principle

morality principle

Video Example #1: Id, Ego & Superego

Video Example #2: Id, Ego & Superego

Video Example #3: Id, Ego & Superego

Freud’s Psychosexual Stages● Oral (0-18 mos) - centered on the mouth● Anal (18-36 mos) - focus on bowel/bladder

elimination● Phallic (3-6 yrs) - focus on genitals/

“Oedipus/ Electra Complex”● Latency (6-puberty) - sexuality is dormant● Genital (puberty on) - sexual feelings toward

others -- maturation of sexual interests

Other Freudian Ideas● Oedipus Complex-

● Electra Complex-

● Identification

Fixation-

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Freudian Slip