PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Psychology, Nomothetic, Testability

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: John Zelenski

Document Summary

Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment. (allport) Personality is that which permits prediction of what a person will do in a given situation. It is concerned with all the behavior of the individual, both overt and under the skin. (cattell) Personality is the more or less stable and enduring organization of a persons character, temperament, intellect and physique, which determines his unique adjustment to his environment. (eysenck) Personality is the relatively enduring pattern of interpersonal situations which characterize a human life. (sullivan) Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations to the intrapsychic, physical, and social environments. (larsen et al. Try to explain why people do what they do. In some ways, every human being is . We all have a need to be social.