exam 4

• define personality 


  characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behavior

  the organized combination of attributes, motives, values, and bahaviors that are unique to each individual
• personality stability

  • big 5, OCEAN
  • chess & thomas
  • buss and ploman
  • jerome kagan
• personality change

  • stage theories (erickson)
  • james marcia- identity diffusion
  • bandura social learning
• trust vs 


  mistrust
• identity vs 


  role confusion
• intimacy vs


  isolation
• generativity vs


  stagnation
• integrity vs 


  dispair
• stage 1 virtue

  hope
• stage 5 virtue

  fidelity
• stage 6 virtue

  mature love
• stage 7 virtue

  care
• stage 8 virtue

  wisdom
• trust vs mistrust age

  birth to a year
• identity vs role confusion age

  12-20
• intimacy vs isolation age 


  20-40
• generativity vs stagnation age

  40-65
• integrity vs dispair age

  65+
• genes

  am i producing something that will live on after me
• generate 


  am i being productive or stagnating
• generation

  universal sense of responsibility toward all human beings

  strength and support to next generations
• who did marcia expand on

  erickson
• marcia's 2 key factors


  exploration and commitment
• 4 stages of identity achievement

  1. foreclosure
  2. moratorium
  3. diffusion
  4. identity achievement
• foreclosure 


  made a commitment

  no exploration
• moratorium 


  no decision

  exploring and questioning
• diffusion


  no exploration

  no questioning
• identity achievement 


  explored

  commitment
• what percent of college students have achieved identity achievement

  40%
• what is MAMA

  moratorium ->identity achievement->moratorium-> identity achievement
• adults questioning their identity about every ___ years

  7
• bandura- social learning/ reciprocal determinism 


  influences between people, their enviroment and their actions/behavior
• big 5/ OCEAN

  • openess
  • conscientious
  • extraversion
  • agreeableness
  • neuroticism (emotional stability)
• psychometric/ trait 


  personality is relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors called traits

  GENETICALLY BASED
• sense of agency 


  a sense that infants have that make them realize they can cause things to happen in the world
• temperament 


  early genetically based tendencies to respond in predictable way

  foundation of personality
• emotional regulation- rothbart and bates 


  ability to control or regulate one's desires, impulses, and behaviors (self-control)
• looking glass self


  basing sense of self on how others view you
• chess and thomas

  • easy
  • difficult
  • slow to warm up
• chess and thomas questions

  1. typical mood
  2. predictability of biological functions
  3. approach or withdrawal from stimuli
  4. intensity of emotion
  5. adaptability to change ro to new things