PSY1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Carl Jung, Collective Unconscious, Hans Eysenck

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY1011
• Professor: Dr Christopher Siva

Document Summary

Allows us to try to understand the person as a whole such that individuals can be seen as: Defining personality (cid:862)psy(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al (cid:395)ualities that (cid:272)ont(cid:396)i(cid:271)ute to an individual"s endu(cid:396)ing and distin(cid:272)tive patte(cid:396)ns of feeling, thinking and (cid:271)ehaving . Enduring: consistent across time and across different situations. Distinctive: features that differentiate people from one another. Contribute to: factors that casually influence, and thus at least partly explain, an i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)ies. Feeling, thinking and behaving: all aspects of a person. The contribution of a shared environment (e. g. parenting style, social status, divorce) has very little influence on personality. Adoptive families do not show family resemblance in personality. Contribution of non-shared environmental factors (personal life experiences = illness, peers, accidents, favouritism) is strong. More than 50% of the variation is non-genetic. A complex interaction between genes and environment from conception to death. Personality theory: an attempt to explain how people are similar, different, and unique.