PPT-PERSONALITY UNIT 10 UNIT OVERVIEW

The Psychoanalytic Perspective The Humanistic Perspective The Trait Perspective The SocialCognitive Perspective Exploring the Self INTRODUCTION Personality Expressed by ones traits and cultural situation. Significance of Freud:. Popularized the idea of the unconscious. Started psychoanalysis/Founded Psychodynamic theory. Ended the notion that evil spirits caused mental illness. Methods for tapping the unconscious:. disorders. Personality. Enduring . pattern of feeling thinking . and behavior . that make individual unique person. Elements of personality. Since early age. Consistent over time. Recognized by friends. Extending Beyond Psychodynamics . How Our Personal Identity is Formed. Personality, . What. . is it. ?. Personality. It is . an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Module from SIOP. Personality in the Workplace. Personality. includes the unique ways people think, act, and behave. Personality tends to be fairly. . stable. over the lifespan, though it can be influenced by situations. 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. . Chapter 15. Fun Personality Tests - . http. ://www.outofservice.com. /. Personality. An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting (. unique & consistent. ).. Each dwarf has a . After reading the article/information about . Narcissistic Personality Disorder . please answer the following on the bottom of the handout. . In your own words, how would you describe someone that is a narcissist? . 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:. 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. Refers to an individual’s . unique and relatively consistent pattern of thinking, feeling, and . behaving. Personality . theory: . Describes . and . explains . how people are similar, how they are different, and why every individual is . 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. . What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?. What approaches and interventions work with BPD?. Self care working with BPD.. What is Cluster B: Dramatic-erratic group?. Four distinct personality types organized by descriptive similarities. These similarities separate this group from Cluster A (odd-eccentric) and Cluster C (anxious-avoidant). %). In this section of the course, students explore major theories of how humans . develop enduring . patterns of behavior and personal characteristics that influence how . others relate . to them. The unit also addresses research methods used to assess personality.