general psychology

5.2 Assignment: Personality Theories

5.2 Assignment: Personality Theories

After reading the required resources, answer the following questions:

1. Explain why we use defense mechanisms according to Freud.

2. Use the following table to explain in your own words Freud’s three levels of consciousness:

Level of Consciousness	Description

3. In addition to proposing that the mind functions at three levels of consciousness, Freud also believed personality was composed of three mental structures. Use the following table to identify and explain in your own words the three mental structures:

Mental Structure	Description

4. Use the following table to identify and describe at least five psychological defense mechanisms. Provide an example of each one. (Do not use the same examples provided in the book chapter).

Defense Mechanism	Description	Example

5. Use the following table to explain Freud’s five (5) psychosexual stages of development:

Name of the Stage	Explanation

6. Describe in your own words the five-factor model (FFM).

7. What does Maslow's hierarchy of needs establish?

8. What does Bandura's theory of reciprocal determinism establish?

9. What does the Rotter’s theory establish?

10. What does Psychodynamic/Neo-Freudian Theories establish, specifically, the Alfred Adler and Carl Jung theories?

2