PERSONALITY Psychoanalytic Social-Cognitive Humanism
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PERSONALITY Psychoanalytic Social-cognitive Humanism Freud’s psychosexual theory Reciprocal determinism—interplay Structure: id (pleasure principle), ego Maslow—self-actualization of (reality principle), superego (morals, Hierarchy of needs Personal factors/internal cognition ideals) * Safety—security—love—self- Behavior Levels of awareness: conscious, pre- esteem—self-actualization Environment conscious, unconscious Carl Rogers—person-centered Personal control (Julian Rotter) Development: oral, anal, phallic Genuineness External locus of control (Oedipal complex, penis envy), la- Unconditional positive regard Internal locus of control tency, genital Empathy *Without internal locus, learned Fixations helplessness results Defense mechanisms - reduce anxiety Explanatory style (Martin Seligman) Repression (primary) Optimistic Regression Trait theory Unstable, specific, external Reaction formation Pessimistic Rationalization Stable, global, internal Displacement Bandura Sublimation Greeks—4 humors (choleric, san- Personality influenced by observa- Projection guine, melancholic, phleg- tional learning, outside influ- Denial matic) ences (Bobo doll study) Neo-Freudians Allport (student of Freud) Self-efficacy (belief in ability to do Adler—social, not sexual tensions Eysenck—unstable/stable; intro- things that lead to positive out- * Birth order, inferiority complex verted/extroverted comes) Horney—rejected penis envy idea Costa & McCrae (Big 5) Carl Jung—collective unconscious OCEAN (openness, conscien- Assessment tiousness, extraversion, agree- The self Projective tests ableness, neuroticism) Rorschach Assessment TAT - Thematic Apperception Test MMPI (used factor analysis, em- pirically derived) Hazel Markus— ―possible selves‖ Draw-a-person Spotlight effect Sentence completion Cattell’s 16PF Person-situation controversy Self-referencing effect Evaluation: Self-esteem * Repression often not shown (vivid Walter Mischel—emphasizes power of situational factors Defensive vs. secure memory often results after trauma) Self-serving bias * Terror management theory Expressive style—thin slices Barnum effect—astrology, etc. STRESS & HEALTH Stress response Obesity & health Coping Stressor—leads to eustress or distress Physiology Depends on appraisal Fat cells—30-40 million Fight-or-flight—Walter Cannon Divide if too full, can’t get rid of Problem-focused (address Adrenal glands fat cells stressor) * Epinephrine (quick response) Set-point/metabolism Emotion-focused (seeks support * Glucocorticoids (slow response) Fat cells—low metabolic rate from others) General Adaptation Syndrome—Selye Metabolism slows when fat cells Exercise Alarm—activation of sympathetic are deprived, tries to maintain Biofeedback nervous system fat level Meditation Resistance—deal with/fight Genetics Spiritual connection Exhaustion—breakdown of immune Adopted children’s weight not system (telomeres in DNA affected, correlated to adoptive parents can’t replicate); hippocampus can’t Identical twins correlation +.72 make new memories as well Fraternal twins correlation +.32 Illness Conflict Chemical effect Heart (Friedman & Rosenman study) Leptin in rats—when up, weight Type A—anger, reactive vs. down Type B—relaxed Approach-approach 69% of heart attack victims were A Losing weight? Win-win situation Immune system impaired 2/3 of women, 1/3 of men trying Avoidance-avoidance * B lymphocytes (fight bacteria— Lose-lose situation formed in bone marrow) Approach-avoidance * T lymphocytes (formed in thymus, One choice, pros and cons fight viruses, cancers) * Macrophages (―big eaters Conditioning the immune system (Ader & Cohen study) * Sweetened water with immune suppressing drug—created classi- cally conditioned immune suppres- sion * Placebo effect in illness? LEARNING Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Latest contributions Associative learning Associative learning - consequences of behavior Latent learning (Tolman) - allows prediction (associate stimuli) - operant behavior - cognitive maps (demonstrate - respondent behavior Thorndike’s Law of Effect learning after award is given) Pavlov’s dogs (1904 Nobel prize) Skinner Intrinsic motivation (desire to do * US (food) leads to: * Operant chamber (Skinner Box) something for its own sake) UR (salivation to food) * Shaping - When rewards are given for activ- * CS (bell) becomes associated with - Successive approximations ity that is intrinsically reward- US, leads to: * Discrimination ing, enjoyment declines * CR (salivation to bell) Reinforcement (overjustification effect) Elements of classical conditioning: Positive reinforcement—pleasurable Extrinsic motivation (desire to do Acquisition stimulus after a response (strengthens something for reward) Extinction the response) - Should be recognition for a job Spontaneous recovery Negative reinforcement—reduces or well done Generalization removes a negative stimulus Biological predispositions Discrimination (still strengthens the response) - Easier to condition behaviors that Implications: * Primary reinforcers (water, food, match natural behavior, pro- Rescorla’s research on predictability etc.) vs. secondary reinforcers mote survival Garcia’s research of biological predis- (money, etc.) Legacy of Skinnerian thinking positions * Schedules of reinforcement - Criticism of deterministic philoso- * easier to condition food aversions Continuous (rapid learning) phy, dehumanization, loss of to taste rather than sight or sound Partial (intermittent) personal freedom * easiest to condition behaviors that - Ratio (certain # of behaviors) Observational learning (modeling) promote survival * Fixed (5 visits to restaurant = Mirror neurons (biological basis) Applications: free meal) - promote empathy Aversive conditioning—pairing a * Variable (slot machine) Bandura’s Bobo doll study negative stimulus with a desired - Interval (certain period of time) Child watches adult, mimics stimulus can help kick bad habits * Fixed (ex. each day @ 3 p.m.) Increase of violence, aggression Drug addicts sometimes have cravings * Variable (ex. shooting stars) Media influence related to environment Punishment Violent crimes—87% on TV, Classical conditioning of immune re- Positive punishment (add bad thing) 13% real life sponse (Ader & Cohen study) Negative punishment (take away good) Violent action is correlated to Extinction can help cure phobias *Both create avoidance behaviors viewing violence (media, video (ex. lie—becomes neg. reinforced) games) - leads to desensitiza- tion MEMORY ENCODING STORAGE RETRIEVAL Controlled by attention Information-processing theory Aids (retrieval cues): Sensory STM LTM Context Types: State-dependent Acoustic Sensory memory (Sperling) Mood-congruent Visual Iconic Priming Semantic Echoic Recognition vs. recall Affected by: STM (requires attention) Chunking 7 +/- 2 chunks Retrieval failure: Self-reference effect Forgetting curve Elaboration LTM (Ebbinghaus) Rehearsal Explicit (declarative) Tip-of-the-tongue Spacing Semantic memory (facts) Reconstructive memory Hierarchies Episodic memory (incidents) (Elizabeth Loftus) Next-in-line effect Flashbulb memory *Misinformation effect Serial position effect (emotional incidents) *Source amnesia Primacy effect Prospective memory (remember *Rosy retrospection Recency effect to do something in the future) Interference Mnemonic devices Proactive Peg-words Retroactive Method of loci Amnesia Alliteration BIOLOGICAL FACTORS Anterograde Music Retrograde Lashley’s research Repression Hippocampus Amygdala Long-term potentiation Cerebellum Stress hormones DEVELOPMENT PHYSICAL SOCIAL COGNITIVE MORAL Prenatal Zygote Embryo (2-8 wks) Lev Vygotsky (social-cognitive) Schemas Kohlberg’s theory Fetus (8+ wks) Zone of proximal development Assimilation Preconventional morality Mentors Accommodation Avoiding punishment Teratogens Lorenz’s study of imprinting Conventional morality Fetal alcohol syndrome Harlow’s research on touch Sensorimotor stage (0-2) Accepting rules of society Radiation Stranger anxiety Object permanence (6 mos) Postconventional morality (8-15th week, migration) Ainsworth’s attachment theory Ethics, abstract morality Radiation: stops short Strange situation paradigm Preoperational stage (2-7) No absolutes FAS: too far Secure attachment (60%) Egocentrism Carol Gilligan Insecure attachment Animism Men - Rules & ethics Reflexes Ambivalent Symbolic thought begins Women - Relationships Moro Avoidant Rooting Baumrind’s parenting styles Concrete operational stage (8- Jonathan Haidt Babinski Authoritarian 12) Social intuitionist theory Palmar Authoritative Conservation Gut-level reactions Permissive Volume (limbic system) Maturation Erikson’s stages (psychsocial) Area Cephalocaudal Trust vs. mistrust Number Proximodistal (0-1) basic trust Reversibility Autonomy vs. shame & doubt METHODS OF Puberty (1-2) independence Formal operational stage (12+) STUDY Primary sex characteristics Initiative vs. guilt Hypothesis testing Secondary sex characteristics (3-5) initiation of tasks Abstract thinking Frontal lobe development Competence vs. inferiority Megacognition Longitudinal research (6-12) accomplishment Old age Identity vs. role confusion Self concept Cross-sectional research Recall vs. recognition (13-20s) sense of self 18 mo.—rouge test Decay of fluid intelligence Intimacy vs. isolation Consistency of crystallized (20s to 40s) relationship Intelligence Generativity vs. stagnation Dementia (40s to 60s) contribution STAGES OF DEATH/DYING (Kubler-Ross) Alzheimer’s disease Integrity vs. despair Denial … Anger … Bargaining … Depression …