PSYC 2310H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Psychology, Behaviorism, Psychoanalytic Theory
2 Feb 2018
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Five goals for the personality theorist: observation that is scientific. Study large and diverse groups of people. Use specialized assessments to study cognitive, affective and biological functions: theory that is systematic, theory that is testable (prove it!, theory that is comprehensive, application from theory to practice. Why study personality: personality psychology addresses the whole integrated, coherent, unique individual, personality theories are part of the intellectual tradition of the past century. Defining personality: the field of personality addresses three issues that are difficult to reconcile, human universals, individual differences, individual uniqueness. Psychological qualities that contribute to an individual"s enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving. Consistent across time and across different situations: distinctive. Features that differentiate people from one another: contribute to. Factors that causally influence, and thus at least partly explain, an individual"s tendencies: feeling, thinking, and behaving.
