PSY 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Midlife Crisis, Psychoanalytic Theory, 18 Months
30 Jul 2018
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Personality - an organized combination of attributes, motives, values and behaviors unique to each individual. Dispositional traits - extraversion or introversion, independence or dependence, etc. Characteristic adaptations - more situation-specific and changeable ways in which people adapt to their roles and environments. This includes goals, motives, plans, schemas, self-conceptions, developmental issues and concerns, and coping mechanisms. Narrative identities - unique and integrative life stories that we construct about our pasts and futures to give ourselves an identity and our lives meaning. Self-concept - your perceptions, positive or negative, of your unique attributes and traits as a person. (cid:894)(cid:862)what i a(cid:373). (cid:863)(cid:895) Self-esteem - your overall evaluation of your worth as a person, high or low, based on all the positive and negative self-perceptions that make up your self-(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept. (cid:894)(cid:862)ho(cid:449) good i a(cid:373). (cid:863)(cid:895) Identity - an overall sense of who you are, where you are heading, and where you fit into society.
