Ch. 9 psych

Ch. 9 psych State vs. Trait - State is a temporary change in ones personality, while a trait is a relatively permanent individual characteristic. Cardinal trait - Dominant trait-need for money ruling and power. Wanting control ( Narcissus, Machiavelli, Napoleon) Central trait - general characteristic; between 5 and 10 of these shape much of our behavior Secondary traits of civilization - Traits only a close friend or family member can see Cattell - 16 personality factors Brought eugenics to America Founded the psychological corporation with thorndike and woodworth Thought that intelligent was related to sensory acuity Wissler - sensory and motor skills do not correlate with achievement and not much with intelligence-proved his professor Pearson wrong OCEAN - openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism MMPI - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Frued - founder of psychoanalysis What did frued say was necessary for adjusting - Love and work (lieben und arbeiten) libido - sex drive Eros - God of love thanatos - death Ego (Freud) - Rational thought; controls & channels the id; reality principle Id (Freud) - innate biological instinct and urges; self serving, irrational, and totall