Five Factor Model Of Personality

Chapter 11 covers personality. Personality means the traits that make a person who they are. It is part of our uniqueness. Sigmund Freud came up with one of the first comprehensive theory of personality. He also recognized that our mental life happens outside of our conscious awareness. Psychologists who were influenced by Freud are called neo-Freud. They agreed with Freud that childhood experiences are important, but they reduced the importance of sex and focused further on the social environment and effects of culture on personality. They also founded a lot of their theories of personality on data from their patients. The Five Factor Model is the most common and widely used trait theory today. The five factors are openness, conscientiousness,

The Hawthorne effect means that performance in people is better when they are being noticed, watched, and paid attention by researchers or supervisors. Industrial psychology branch of psychology that studies job characteristics, applicant characteristics, and how to match them. Organizational psychology branch of psychology that studies the interactions between people working in organizations and the effects of those interactions on productivity. Industrial and organizational psychology field in psychology that applies scientific principles to the study of work and the workplace. Human factors psychology, or ergonomics, studies the interface between workers and their machines and physical environments. Human factors psychologists specifically seek to design machines to better support the workers using them. What stood out to me the most during this chapter is reading about how murder is the second leading cause of death in a workplace. It is hard to believe that reason is common in the

Psychopathology is the study of psychological disorders, signs and symptoms, etiology, and treatment of the disorder. The presence of a psychological disorder is indicated by major disturbances in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The disturbances have to reflect a dysfunction. It has to be of significant damage in one’s life, and cannot reflect culturally expected reactions to certain life events. Anxiety disorders are a group of disorders, it is characterized by extreme, persistent, and distressing fear and anxiety that hinders normal day to day functioning, an example is a phobia. PTSD is a disorder when the experience of a traumatic and stressful event, such as combat, sexual assault, or natural disaster. People with personality disorders show a personality style that is stubborn and uncompromising, causes distress and impairment, and creates problems for themselves and others. What I found most beneficial was reading, “Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders”. This will help me more when dealing with psychological patients at work. The most interesting thing I read was the dancing mania epidemic that happened in Western Europe between the 11th to 17th centuries. It makes me want to research it more and figure out the reason behind why it was happening. Reading the theories on possible causes was