Personality.
Personality Homework assignments may consist of any of the following:
➢ Personal experiences that relate in some way to the personality chapter.
➢ Course-related newsworthy items you read about in newspapers, news magazines, etc.
➢ Information you study in other courses that relates to the material we have studied.
➢ Miscellaneous items—for example, you might choose to use a magazine advertisement, TV show, cartoon, or movie to illustrate a psychological principle (this category is intentionally broad and vague in order to allow you to be creative).
For each of your assignments, you should describe in detail the facts or observations surrounding the situation/event and relate how psychological research or theory gives you particular insight into that situation—its causes, its correlates, its relation with other events, and/or other pertinent topics. You must include a copy of the original information (e.g., newsworthy items, information from other courses, cartoon) whenever possible with your assignment. When you use a personal experience or some other event that you cannot copy as your stimulus, you must describe it in enough detail that I can understand the experience/event that made you think of its relation to psychology.
After you write about the stimulus, you should clearly connect it to psychological concepts or knowledge as noted in your textbook. I should not have to guess what psychological concept you think your stimulus relates to in the textbook—you must draw the link for me. You should explain the concept to me as you would to a friend or relative. Putting things in your own words is the most desirable approach.
In addition, be certain that your assignment contains a critical thinking element and MUST label it.
NOTE:personality is in chapter 11 from Weiten, W. (2014). Psychology: Themes & Variations(Briefer version; 9th ed.). I can send you a copy of the chapter if necessary.
I wrote kind of a summary about chapter 11. It’s mainly about personality—Freud unconscious mind, if you would like to see it let me know
i will just send you everything and you are free to read it or not.
Personality
Case in the early 1950s: Christine costner sizemore, walked into a psychiatrist complaining about having severe and blinding headaches, she said sometimes followed by blackouts. However, sizemore appeared to be a typical young mother in a bad marriage with no serious psychological issues. Her doctor described her as shy, constrained, and careful. After few months of treatment nothing unusual or serious happened. Then one day during therapy she mentioned that she went on a recent trip but she had no memory of it. Several days later, on her next visit she told her doctor if hearing imaginary voice meant she was insane, while the doctor was thinking about it, sizemore changed her posture and everything about her changed suddenly, some even argued that this could be another woman and then sizemore “other side” began talking in third person about sizemore issues, when asked her name and how is she, she replied with a different name and different identity.
Later sizemore doctor, told her to take psychological personality tests , she took the test twice, one time when she is sizemore, and the other when she was her “other-self”. Her doctor submitted the test to independent researchers, they did not know that the result of the test came from the same person, the analysts concluded that the two personalities had quite the opposite self-image “qualities”, the woman who originally entered the therapy sizemore (also known as eve white) saw herself as, weak, passive, and bad, and her other “self” saw herself exactly the opposite.
It took 18 years to cure Sizemore. It was Eve Black who had tried to choke Chris Sizemore’s two-year-old daughter, leading her to seek psychiatric help for the first time.
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Usually other “hidden self” are the opposite of our self, We all have many personalities within us , when you are doing an important interview for a job you will tend to “act” like this is your usual self, you will act in a polite manner and such, and when your friend or family interview or talk to you, you will tend to act as they know you, you will not show them “yourself” that when you were interviewed by someone important.
People will have more personalities as the time passes, act differently when in a good mood and act like a different person when in a bad one. however , sizemore was an extreme Case. some studies even show that people make different moral decisions after seeing a happy movie. Studies with implicit prejudice revealed, that we all have two sides of ourselves, “one” is the unconscious self who despise other racially different people, or “Large” people, or transgenders, and the conscious side who loves everyone. however , psychologists have usually presumed that the way a person feels and act reflects unchanged traits,that form the core of the individual personality.
My source is from: how the unconscious mind rules your behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
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Personality describes the individual contrasts in characteristic forms of thinking, emotion, and behavior. The major personality types according to psychologists are; openness, neuroticism, agreeableness, introversion/ extroversion, conscientiousness, extraversion. Everyone has some knowledge of their individual personality type, they could be lively or reserved, subtle or thick-skinned. There are also disorders associated with personality types. Personality disorders are mental disorders where the individual has an inflexible and unhealthy form of thinking, performance, and behavior.
In a case from the early 1950s, Sizemore went into a psychiatrist grumbling about severe and strong headaches and sometimes blackouts. However, Sizemore seemed to be a normal young mother who was in an unhealthy marriage and did not have acute psychological problems.
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