PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Extraversion And Introversion, Reality Principle, Neuroticism
3 May 2018
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What is personality?
ā¢ Aī
¶ iī
¶dividualās uī
¶iīue patteīī
¶ of thoughts, feeliī
¶gs, aī
¶d īehavioīs
o Persist over time
o Across situations
ā¢ Stable, enduring differences
ā¢ Humanistic Personality Theories: stress the potential for growth and change
o Carl Rogers
āŖ Self-actualizing tendency: the drive of human beings to fulfill their self-
concepts
āŖ Fully functioning person: an individual whose self-concept closely
resembles his/her inborn potentials
āŖ Helped along with unconditional positive regard
ā¢ Iāll help īou ī
¶o ī
µatter what instead of conditional positive regard
(I only help you if you are not wrong)
Trait theories
ā¢ Words we use to describe friends
ā¢ People differ according to the degree to which they possess certain personality traits
The Big Five Dimensions
ā¢ Extroversion
ā¢ Agreeableness
ā¢ Conscientiousness: BIGGEST OF THE FIVE
ā¢ Emotional stability (Neuroticism)
ā¢ Openness to experience
Psychodynamic Theories (Freud)
ā¢ Much of mental life is unconscious
ā¢ Mental processes can be in conflict
ā¢ Personality patterns start in childhood experience
ā¢ The three parts:
o ID: pleasure principle, unconscious
o Ego: reality principle
o Superego: morality principle
āŖ Pride
āŖ Guilt
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