If you were an actor playing

in a courtroom drama, which

of the following characters
would you see yourself
portraying?
The Lawyer The Accused
The Detective The Witness
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You normally keep your cool under fire andYER
rarely let others see you sweat. But you
also have a different face that surfaces only
under the most intense pressure –a
hotheaded fighter who’s able to forget
restraint and explode when the case
demands it. This combination of cool
readiness and fiery passion carries you
through even the most desperate situations.
 V E
TI
EYou
C don’t get swept away by chaos and
D ET
confusion and always keep your head
while others around you lose theirs.
People sense and respect that
imperturbability and tend to turn to you
for help when they’re in distress. This
means that trouble seems to follow you,
but you don’t mind the added stress –in
fact it only makes you calmer.
 AtE D first glance you seem tough and
U S
C
A unconcerned, but underneath, you lack
C
what it takes to see your battles
through to the end. When things get
tough, you waste time second guessing
and judging yourself instead of
addressing the problems at hand. It’s
probably in your own best interest to
ally yourself with someone who
handles things more practically.
 W
IT
You may look cooperative and helpful in ES N
S
any given situation but your flexibility and
eagerness to please also make you a source
of another kind of trouble. By trying to get
along with everyone all the time, you end
up being inconsistent and even a little
untrustworthy. Don’t worry so much about
whether your statements are making people
happy or upset. The only thing you really
have to prove is yourself
PERSON
ALITY
PERSONALIT
Y
A pattern of relatively
permanent traits and unique
characteristics that give both
consistency and individuality
to a person’s behavior.
Sigmund
Freud
Early childhood
experiences that create
high levels of anxiety are
repressed into the
unconscious, where they
may influence behavior,
Id
•Contains our basic instinct
•Raw and savage part of the
personality
•Operates on the pleasure
principle
Superego
•Serves as the moral and
idealistic principles
•It has two subsystems:
Conscience Tells us what not
to do
Ego Ideal Tells us what we
should do
Ego
•Governed by the reality
principle
•Is responsible for reconciling the
unrealistic demands of the id and
the superego.
Defense
Mechanis
•Defense mechanisms
operate at an
unconscious level and
help ward off
unpleasant feelings
(i.e.anxiety) or make
good things feel better
Repression
•Burying a painful feeling or
thought from your
awareness though it may
resurface
Example: in symbolic form.
You can't remember your
father's funeral.
Suppressio
n
•We consciously choose to not
indulge in a conscious
thought, feeling or action
even though
Example: we are aware of
it
You constantly make yourself
busy to avoid thinking about
Denial
•Not accepting reality because
it is too painful.
Example:
You are arrested for drunk
driving several times but don't
believe you have a problem
Projection
•Attributing your own
unacceptable thoughts or
feelings to someone or
something
Example: else
You get really mad at your
husband but scream that he's
Regression
•Reverting to an older, less
mature way of handling
stresses and feelings
Example:
You and your roommate have
get into an argument so you
stomp off into another room
Displaceme
nt
•Channeling a feeling or
thought from its actual
source to something or
someone else.
Example:
When you get mad at your sister,
you break your drinking glass by
throwing it against the wall.
Sublimatio
n
•Redirecting unacceptable,
instinctual drives into
personally and socially
acceptable channels
Example:
Intense rage redirected in the
form of participation in sports
such as boxing or football
Reaction
Formation
•Adopting beliefs, attitudes,
and feelings contrary to what
you really believe
Example:
Even though an atheist, a man
goes to mass on Sundays.
Rationaliza
tion
• Justifying one's behaviors and
motivations by substituting
"good", acceptable reasons for
these real motivations
Example:
Justifying one's behaviors and
motivations by substituting
"good", acceptable reasons for
Undoing
• Trying to reverse or "undo" a
thought or feeling by
performing an action that
signifies an opposite feeling
than your
Example: original thought or
feeling
You have feelings of dislike for
someone so you buy them a gift
Compensati
on
People overachieve in one
area to compensate for
failures in another
Humor
•Focusing on funny aspects of
a painful situation.
Example:
A person's treatment for
cancer makes him lose his
hair so he makes jokes about
Alfred
Adler
Adler believed that people
are basically self-
determined and that they
shape their personalities
from the meaning they
give to their experiences.
Alfred
Adler
Although people’s
perception of the situation
is more important than
numerical rank, Adler
formed general hypothesis
about birth order
OLDEST CHILD
Positive Traits: Negative Traits:
• Nurturing and • Highly anxious
protective of others • Exaggerated feelings of
• Good organizer power
• Unconscious hostility
• Must always be right
whereas other must always
be wrong
• Highly critical of other
SECOND CHILD
Positive Traits: Negative Traits:
• Highly motivated • Highly competitive
• Cooperative • Easily discouraged
• Moderately
cooperative
YOUNGEST CHILD
Positive Traits: Negative Traits:
• Realistically • Pampered lifestyle
ambitious • Dependent on others
• Wants to excel in
everything
• Unrealistically
ambitious
ONLY CHILD
Positive Traits: Negative Traits:
• Socially mature • Exaggerated feelings
of inferiority
• Low feelings of
cooperation
• Inflated self-esteem
• Pampered style of life