Filipino Personalities & SW

• Asthenic


  Thin, Tall, Fragile, narrowly built and looks very weak
• Athletic


  Muscular and energetic
• Pyknic


  Round and robust or plump
• Dysplastic


  Malproportioned body, a combination of any of the above body built
• Sheldon's Primary Component of Body Built

  • Endomorphy
  • Mesomorphy
  • Ectomorphy
• Endomorphy


  Round, soft bodies with large abdomen
• Mesomorphy


  Hard, sturdy with strong bones and muscles
• Ectomorphy


  Thin, small boned, fragile with flat chest
• Temperament associated with body types

  • Endomorphy with viscertonia
  • Mesomorphy with somatotonia
  • Ectomorphy with cerebtonia
• Endomorphy


  • Sociable
  • Fond of food and people
  • Even tempered
  • Affectionate
• Mesomorphy


  • Love with physical adventure
  • Enjoyment of exercise and vigorous activity
  • Competitive aggressiveness
  • Assertiveness of behavior
• Ectomorphy


  • Inhibited in movement
  • Love of privacy
  • Secretive
  • Self-conscious
• Personality (Allport)


  Dynamic organization, psychological, determine, characteristics behavior and thoughts
• Personality (Guilford)


  Person's unique situation patterns of traits
• "No brain, no personality" (Murray, 1951)
• Personality (Hall & Gardener)


  The impression an individual makes on others
• Personality (Fromm)


  The totality of individual psychic qualities
• Personality (Pervin)


  Structural and dynamic properties of an individual as they reflect themselves in characteristic response to a Person's unique situation
• Sigmund Freud was born on Freiberg, Moravia (now Czechoslovakia)
• Freud worked with Joseph Breuer
• Catharsis


  Process where symptoms of patients would disappear temporarily or permanently by encouraging them to express their feelings and emotions
• Id


  The most primitive of the three structures, is concerned with instant gratification of basic physical needs and urges
• Ego


  The rational, pragmatic part of our personality
• Superego


  Concerned with social rules and morals—similar to what many people call their" conscience" or their "moral compass"
• Cathexis


  The relationship or connection between a need and an object that will satisfy the need
• Anti-cathexis


  The inhibition of an impulse by either the ego or the Superego
• Anxiety


  A feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can be mild or severe
• Types of anxiety


  • Reality anxiety
  • Neurotic Anxiety
  • Moral Anxiety
• Ways to decrease anxiety


  • Deal with the situation directly
  • Denying the situation itself
• Fantasy


  Temporary escapes from the frustrations of reality
• Nomadism


  Continual wandering from place to place
• Regression


  A frustrated individual may seek unconsciously to return to an earlier more secure period of life
• Repression


  Process of excluding from conscious awareness of undesirable thought, feeling, or memory that causes pain, shame or guilt
• Types of Displacement


  • Scapegoating
  • Free-Floating Anger
  • Suicide
• Projection


  The individual unconsciously convince himself that others have the undesirable thoughts and motives that he actually has himself
• Sublimation


  Indirect expression of a need which cannot be satisfied directly, through acceptance of an alternate goal which provides a socially acceptable outlet of expression of the sexual urge
• Substitution


  Expression of frustrated impulses indirectly with no change in conscious quality of desires
• Rationalization


  Logical explanations are devised to explain and justify behavior which might result loss of social approval and self-esteem
• Compensation


  An attempt to disguise the presence of a weak or undesirable trait by emphasizing desirable one
• Overcompensation


  Extreme or socially unacceptable attempt to counterbalance failure actual or imagined inferiority