PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: First Principle, Heritability, Neuroticism

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 3280
• Professor: Tim Jukes

Document Summary

Curious, original, intellectual, creative and open to new ideas. Outgoing, talkative, sociable, and enjoys being in social situations. A new big five (mcadams & pals, 2006) New big five ocean big five. Introducing a new framework of understanding personality. Five principles give outline of how to make psychological sense of individual human life: evolution and human nature, dispositional signature (traits, characteristic adaptations, life narratives and modern identity, role of culture. Feels all textbooks falls into these two categories: parade of grand, irreconcilable theories. Textbooks are organized to list theories by such and such psychologist in a broad, non integrative way: research topics and issues. Topic is broken up into discrete ways of doing things comprised of research topics and questions. Personality psychology"s mission: provide an integrative framework for understanding the whole person the whole person includes the uniqueness of each person. Unique patterning (like no others: evolution and human nature. First principle: general evolutionary design, human nature.