PSYC 2530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dodge Morgan, Nomothetic, Falsifiability

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2530
• Professor: Katherine Starzyk

Document Summary

Personality = one"s characteristics pattern of thought, emotion, behavior --> together with the psychological mechanism - hidden or not - behind those patterns (p. 5: provides basic experience of suffering (mental illness) Explain whole persons key role but in fact it"s impossible the biggest problem too because if you try to understand everything about a person at one time, yourself may be overwhelmed and go blank. Solution: should limit observations to specific patterns basic approach (below) Not the only and not always the most cause of the behavior. To understand one person, what makes people unique (e. g, hitler) Pros: complete understanding of a single individual (can understand that person very well); great for important people (e. g, presidents - how they empower) Cons: subjective, not easily falsifiable, not generalizable, need a biographer: biographer is unnecessary material for understanding a person today due to facebook (almost ppl enclose their info on it) The analysis of the personality of hitler (further reading)