Download Term 1: Personality and Character Definitions and Theories and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Personality DEFINITION 1 a person's unique long term pattern of thinking, emotions, and behaviors; the consistency of who you are, have been and will become TERM 2 Character DEFINITION 2 personal characteristics that have been judged or evaluated; desirable or undesirable qualities TERM 3 personality traits DEFINITION 3 stable qualities that a person shows in most situations TERM 4 personality traits DEFINITION 4 people who have several traits in common TERM 5 Carl Jung DEFINITION 5 proposed that we are one or two personality types introvert and extrovert TERM 6 introvert DEFINITION 6 shy, reserves, self centered person whose attention is focused inward TERM 7 extrovert DEFINITION 7 bold outgoing person whose attention is directed outward TERM 8 self concept DEFINITION 8 your ideas perceptions, and feelings about who you are TERM 9 self esteem DEFINITION 9 a positive or negative evaluation of oneself TERM 10 personality theory DEFINITION 10 system of concepts, assumption, ideas and principles proposed to explain personality TERM 21 source traits DEFINITION 21 underlying characteristics of a personality TERM 22 factor analysis DEFINITION 22 a statistical technique used to correlate multiple measurements and identifying general underlying factors TERM 23 trait profile DEFINITION 23 graph of the scores on several personality traits TERM 24 extroversion DEFINITION 24 degree to which a person is introverted or extroverted TERM 25 agreeableness DEFINITION 25 how friendly nurturing and caring a person is, as opposed to cold indifferent self centered or spiteful TERM 26 conscientiousness DEFINITION 26 how self disciplined responsible and achieving a person is as oppose to irresponsible careless and undependable TERM 27 neuroticism DEFINITION 27 degree to which a person experiences negative upsetting emotions TERM 28 openness to experience DEFINITION 28 degree to which a person is intelligent and open to new ideas TERM 29 psychoanalytic theory DEFINITION 29 the best known psychodynamic approach grew out of the work of Sigmund Freud, a Viennese physician TERM 30 Psyche DEFINITION 30 Freud's term for the personality contains id, ego, and superego TERM 31 Id DEFINITION 31 the primitive part of personalty that remains unconscious, supplies energy, and demands pleasureself serving and irrational TERM 32 Ego DEFINITION 32 The executive part of personality that directs rational behaviorExecutive; directs id energiesoperates via reality principle; delay action until it is practical appropriate TERM 33 superego DEFINITION 33 a judge or censor for thoughts and actionscomes from our parents or caregivers; guilt comes from this TERM 34 Freudian Personality Dynamics DEFINITION 34 Ego is always caught in the middle of battles between the id's desires for immediate gratification and the superego's desires for moral behavior Neurotic and anxiety TERM 35 Neurotic anxiety DEFINITION 35 caused by id impulses that the ego can barely control
