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Personality
Francine Sims LPC, LLP, [email protected]
Introduction to Psychology
Body Types
somatology
Example of a Trait MeasureYou can try completing a self-reportmeasure of
personality(a short form of the Five-FactorPersonalityTest)
here. There are 120 questionsand it should take you about 15–20 minutes to complete.You will receive feedback
about your personality after you have finished the test.
http://www.personalitytest.net/ipip/ipipneo120.htm
The theory of psychological type was introduced in the 1920s by Carl G. Jung. The MBTI tool was developed in the 1940s by Isabel Briggs Myers and the original research was done in the 1940s and '50s. This research is ongoing, providing users with updated and new information about psychological type and its applications. Millions of people worldwide have taken the Indicator each year since its first publication in 1962.
The idea that there are five fundamental underlying trait dimensions that are stable across time, cross-culturally shared, and explain a substantial proportion of behavior.
1. Energetic Relaxed Depends on the situation2. Skeptical Trusting Depends on the situation3. Quiet Talkative Depends on the situation4. Intense Calm Depends on the situation
Research has also shown that people tend to see more traits in other people than they do in themselves.
TAT, is a projective measure intended to evaluate a person's patterns of thought, attitudes, observational capacity, and emotional responses to ambiguous test materials. In the case of the TAT, the ambiguous materials consist of a set of cards that portray human figures in a variety of settings and situations.
What do you see?
What do you see?
What do you see?
understanding human behavior that focuses on the
role of unconscious thoughts, feelings and memories.
The id is entirely unconscious, and it drives our most important motivations, including the sexual drive (libido) and the aggressive or destructive drive (Thanatos)
In psychodynamic psychology, the component of personality that forms the basis of our most primitive
impulses.
represents our sense of morality and oughts.
The superego tell us all the things that we shouldn’t do, or the duties and obligations of society. The superego strives for perfection, and when we fail to live up to its demands we feel guilty.
In psychodynamic psychology, the component of personality that represents our sense
The ego is the largely conscious controller or decision-maker of personality.
The ego serves as the intermediary between the desires of the id and the constraints of societycontained in the superego.
EGO
behavioral genetics A variety of research techniques that scientists use to learn about the genetic and environmental influences on human behavior bycomparing the traits of biologically and nonbiologically related family members
behavioral genetics
family studyA behavioral genetics study that starts with one personwho has a trait of interest and examines the individual’sfamily tree to determine the extent to which other family members also have the trait.
family study
twin studyA behavioral genetics study in which the data from many pairs of twins are collected and the rates of similarity for identical and fraternal pairs are compared.
Personality is defined as an individual’s consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving. Early theories of personality, including phrenology and somatology, are now discredited, but there is at least some research evidence for physiognomy—the idea that it is possible to assess personality from facial characteristics
Stangor, C. (2010). Introduction to Psychology. Irvington, NY: Flat World Knowledge.
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