PSYC 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phineas Gage, Personality Psychology, Canoe.Com

• School: Langara College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1115
• Professor: Tory Chenier

Document Summary

Previous to his accident, he was a well-balanced, smart, energetic, and persistent. He became extremely careless, rude, offensive etc. One of the biggest fields of psychology. One of the central goals is to predict behaviour. How are you and i different from each other: physical/biological characteristics: age, height, gender, dna, etc, experience: years in school, number of siblings, etc, psychological characteristics: thirst, intelligence, humour etc. But now all psychological differences are permanent: state differences: te(cid:373)po(cid:396)a(cid:396)(cid:455) diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) people"s ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) (cid:894)hu(cid:374)ge(cid:396), anger, trait differences: pe(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)e(cid:374)t, e(cid:374)du(cid:396)i(cid:374)g diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) people"s ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hology (shyness, friendliness, courage) Personality: a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396)isti(cid:272) a(cid:374)d e(cid:374)du(cid:396)i(cid:374)g st(cid:455)le of (cid:271)eha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g, thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g, a(cid:374)d feeling (traits, not states: describes semi-permanent properties of people, much like adjectives describe properties of things. Personality factors: underlying traits on which all people can be high, low, or anywhere in between. Analogy: all monitors display colours through a mix of 3 colours/factors (red, green, blue)