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PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT…
Getting Started
Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach
How the Parts Fit Together
Focus on Processing-Area Structures
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PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT…
Getting Started
Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach
Aspects of Structural Area Models
• The most general of structural models• They divide personality according to the
processes they carry out• They also organize traits
– According to which area of personality the trait describes (e.g., emotionality, cognition)
– Not according to correlational criteria
PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT…
Are There More General Approaches to Structure?
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The Trilogy (Quaternity?) of Mind
A. MotivationB. EmotionC. CognitionD. (Maybe…) Consciousness
PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT…
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Trilogy of MindCognition: Thoughts and
reasoning about information
Emotion: Feelings such as anger and happiness that communicate about relationships
Motivation: Urges and desires that direct the individual
Cognition
EmotionMotivation
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A Brain to Match?
• The Triune Brain– MacLean– Evolutionary Focus
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A Brain to Match? • Reptilian Brain
– Reproduction– Territoriality– Hunting for food– Defense
ThalamusCerebellumHypothalamusAmygdalaPons
PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT…
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A Brain to Match?
ThalamusCerebellumHypothalamusAmygdalaPons
• Old Mammalian Brain– Caregiving for the
young– Emotions– Social Relationships
HippocampusCorpus Callosum
PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT…
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A Brain to Match?
ThalamusCerebellumHypothalamusAmygdalaPons
HippocampusCorpus Collosem
• New Mammalian Brain – Language– Higher cognitive
functions
Cerebral Cortex
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The Systems Set
E nergyLattice
K now ledgeW orks
R oleP layer
Execu tiveC onsc iousness
Executive Consciousness: Self awareness and self- control Energy Lattice: Motives and emotionsKnowledge Works: Mental models and intelligenceRole Player: Social roles and how to carry them out.
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The full systems set
diagram
Are There More General Approaches to Structure?
PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT…
Are There More General Approaches to Structure?
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Organizing Traits• Method:
– Select 70 commonly discussed traits from glossaries of personality textbooks
– Place definitions after each trait– 9 raters (graduate students) classify traits
according to personality area
PART 3: PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION CHAPTER 8: HOW THE PARTS FIT…
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Testing the Systems Set Executive Consciousness Absorption, will-power, self-control, private-self-consciousness, self-awareness, self-esteem, etc.
Role PlayerMachiavellianism, sincere-insincere, public self-consciousness, entertaining-dull, leader-follower, friendliness-hostility, extroversion-introversion, shyness, athletic- sedentary, graceful-clumsy
Knowledge WorksVerbal intelligence, perceptual-organizational intelligence, creativity, internal-external locus of control, emotional intelligence, etc.
Energy LatticeInterest, curiosity, neuroticism, guilt-proneness, need for achievement, etc.
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What Are Structural Connections to the Environment?
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