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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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Getting Started

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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


Are There More General Approaches to Structure?

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The Trilogy (Quaternity?) of Mind

A. MotivationB. EmotionC. CognitionD. (Maybe…) Consciousness




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




A Brain to Match?

• The Triune Brain– MacLean– Evolutionary Focus




A Brain to Match? • Reptilian Brain

– Reproduction– Territoriality– Hunting for food– Defense

ThalamusCerebellumHypothalamusAmygdalaPons




A Brain to Match?


• Old Mammalian Brain– Caregiving for the

young– Emotions– Social Relationships

HippocampusCorpus Callosum




A Brain to Match?


HippocampusCorpus Collosem

• New Mammalian Brain – Language– Higher cognitive

functions

Cerebral Cortex




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.




The full systems set

diagram





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




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.


What Are Structural Connections to the Environment?


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