Trait theories, the Big Five, and psychodynamic and humanistic personality theories from a college personality psychology course.
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- What does the Big Five model stand for?
- OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
- What is Openness to Experience?
- The trait reflecting curiosity, imagination, appreciation for art and ideas, and willingness to try new things.
- What is Conscientiousness?
- The trait reflecting organization, discipline, responsibility, and tendency to plan ahead.
- What is Extraversion?
- The trait reflecting sociability, assertiveness, talkativeness, and tendency to seek stimulation and interaction.
- What is Agreeableness?
- The trait reflecting kindness, cooperativeness, empathy, and tendency to be trusting and compassionate.
- What is Neuroticism?
- The trait reflecting proneness to negative emotions like anxiety, sadness, anger, and emotional instability.
- Who developed the lexical hypothesis in personality psychology?
- Gordon Allport.
- What is the lexical hypothesis?
- The idea that personality traits important in human life are encoded in language, so trait words reflect actual differences between people.
- Who developed the 16 Personality Factor model?
- Raymond Cattell.
- Who identified Extraversion and Neuroticism as key personality dimensions?
- Hans Eysenck.
- In Freud's theory, what is the id?
- The most primitive part of personality that operates on the pleasure principle, seeking immediate gratification of basic drives.
- In Freud's theory, what is the ego?
- The rational part of personality that mediates between the id and reality, operating on the reality principle.
- In Freud's theory, what is the superego?
- The moral conscience that internalized societal rules and values, operating on the morality principle.
- What are Freud's psychosexual stages?
- Five developmental stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital, each centered on a different source of pleasure.
- What is Freud's anal stage characterized by?
- Focus on control of bowel and bladder functions; conflicts here lead to anal-retentive or anal-expulsive personality types.