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BUT
when she’s late nearly every day,
for all the courses she teaches,
and late for most events,
late in paying her bills,
late in returning phone calls,
then we might describe her as tardy (a surface trait).
Personality
Openness to experience-nonopenness
Conscientiousness-undirectedness
Extroversion-introversion
Agreeableness-antagonism
Neuroticism-stability
Where do our
personalities come
from?
The Origin of Personality
Social/Cognitive Approach
Humanistic Approach
Psychodynamic Approach
Social-Cognitive Perspective
Locus of Control
proposed by Julian Rotter
belief that rewards either are or are not controllable by
one’s own efforts
may be internal or external
Social-Cognitive Perspective
Self-Efficacy
proposed by Albert Bandura
belief about one’s ability to perform specific tasks
can be high or low
Social Cognition
Beyond Traits
Differences in cognitive processing also play a large role
in personality
E.g., delay of gratification
Delay of Gratification
Delay of gratification
Abraham Maslow
hierarchy of needs
self-actualization - the
realization of one’s
dreams and capabilities
Psychoanalytic Approach
Unconscious
Id
Psychoanalytic Approach
Conscious
Ego
• Preconscious -
Superego Preconscious
everything that can,
with a little effort, be
Unconscious
brought into
consciousness Id
Psychoanalytic Approach
Conscious
Ego
Superego Preconscious
• Unconscious -
inaccessible Unconscious
warehouse of Id
anxiety-
producing
thoughts and
drives
Psychosexual Stages
Sexuality is repressed
Children participate in hobbies, school and same-sex
friendships
Genital Stage (puberty on)