PPT-Chapter 1: Introducing Personality

Learning Objectives After reading this chapter you should be able to do the following Define personality and explain the personality concept in psychology Describe how personality can be approached from the standing of knowledge . Read pg. 477-478 (top) featuring a very unique personality, Steve Irwin. Read the selection with this question . in mind. : . Which traits characterized Irwin’s personality? . Why does personality form? In other words, what are the major forces that make people “who they are?”. Pia. Torres and Kristine Tran. Period 5. Vignette. Diana Miller, 25, entered a long-term treatment unit of a psychiatric hospital after a serious suicide attempt. Diana had been a sociable child until she turned 12. She became demanding sullen, rebellious, shifting from a giddy euphoria to tearfulness and depression. She became promiscuous, abused marijuana and hallucinogens and ran away at 15 with a boy. She craved excitement and would get drunk and dance wildly, and left with strange men. When she was 17, she made her first suicide attempt by cutting her wrist severely. She was obsessed with calories and with the need to have her food cut into particular shapes and arranged on her plate in a particular manner. If her parents didn’t do this she would have tantrums. She never had female friends and she has often been “eaten alive” with boredom. She languished at home, grew more depressed and agoraphobic and escalated her valium use. . Introducing Trigonometry. The London Eye (originally called the ‘. Millenium. Wheel’) is a large . F. erris wheel on the South bank of the River Thames.. It is a huge structure which is 120m in diameter.. Personality. Consistent Tendency: behavior across situations. Distinctiveness: Individual personality traits. Personality. An individuals unique set of consistent behavioral traits. Stability of behavior over time. Uni. -dimensional or Multi-dimensional. Theoretical . or Psychometric (data reduction). Factor Analysis or Criterion Reference. Normal or Abnormal Traits. Group or Individual Administration. Oral or Written. According to Freud, the part of the psyche that stops a person from stealing is the. Collective unconscious. Id. Superego. ego. Answer: C. Superego. Gary feels that his younger son George is unattractive and not very smart. He accuses his wife of picking on George and favoring their other son. What defense is being used?. Hans Eysenck believed that we can describe people’s personalities by classifying them along two scales: . Introversion-extraversion scale. Stable-unstable . scale. The Big Five. Many contemporary trait theorists believe personality can be described using 5 traits:. Alice F. Short. Hilliard Davidson High School. Chapter Preview. Psychodynamic Perspectives. Humanistic Perspectives. Trait Perspectives. Personological and Life Story Perspectives. Social Cognitive Perspectives. nner . psychological characteristic . that reflect how a person . responds. to his/her environment.. Inner characteristics -can be specific personal . qualities, attributes, traits, mannerisms . that distinguish one individual from others. What is Personality?. Read “A Day in Life” on page 321. Would. Hannah do something like that?. The answer to that question relies on our perception of Hannah’s personality. When people think of personality, they often think of the most striking element of that personality, like having an “assertive personality” or an “artistic personality”. inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. . usually without depression or delusions.. Robert Lee Yates: . Spokane Skid Row Killer. Personality Disorders. Broken down into Clusters:. People with personality disorders have . formed peculiar and unpleasant personality patterns. . For example, some are very secretive, some very self-centered and selfish, some suspicious all the time. . DSM-IV lists 10 separate personality disorders, with an average prevalence of 1-2%. Three clusters: anxious-fearful, odd-eccentric, and dramatic-impulsive. Concern:. . Categorical vs. Dimensional (DSM-V)?. Tier 1 . What is personality?. The . word ‘personality’ refers to the collection of characteristics or traits that we have developed as we have grown up and which make each of us an individual. These include the ways that we:.