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Personality Psych

Terms in this set (26)

Adler
Psychodynamic theorist best known for the concept of inferiority complex
allport
Trait theorist known for the concept of functional autonomy; also distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to personality
bandura
behaviorist theorist known for his social learning theory; did modeling experiment using "Bobo" doll; studied observational learning
Bem
suggested that masculinity and femininity were 2 separate dimensions; also linked with concept of androgyny
Cattell
Trait theorist who used factor analysis to study personality
Dollard and Miller
Behaviorist theorists who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoidance conflicts
Erikson
Ego psychologist whose psychosocial stages of development encompass entire lifespan
Eysenck
Trait theorist who proposed two main dimensions on which human personalities differ: introversion-extroversion and emotional stability-neuroticism
Freud, A.
founder of ego psychology
Freud, S.
Originator of the psychodynamic approach to personality
Horney
Psychodynamic theorist who suggested there were three ways to relate to others: moving toward, moving against, and moving away from
Jung
psychodynamic theorist who broke with Freud over the concept of libido; suggested that the unconscious could be divided into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, with archetypes being in the collective unconscious
Kelly
Based personality theory on the notion of "individual as scientist"
Kernberg
Object relations theorist
Klein
Object relations theorist
Lewin
Phenomenological personality theorist who developed field theory
Mahler
Object-Relations
Introject representations of caregivers into our personalities
Maslow
Phenomenological personality theorist known for developing a hierarchy of needs and for the concept of self-actualization
McClelland's Acquired Needs Theory
states that certain types of needs or desires are acquired during an individual's lifetime (N-Ach)
Mischel
critical of personality trait-theory, felt situations decide actions, not personality
Rogers
Phenomenological personality theorist
Rotter
locus of control
Sheldon
attributed crime to somatotype (body shape) (endomorphs, mesomorphs - most likely to be criminals, and ectomorphs).
skinner
behaviorism, operant conditioning
Winnicott
Object relations theorist
Witkin
studied field-dependence and field-independence using the rod and frame test
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