PSYC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emic And Etic
Personality Week 1
Introduction
What is it?
- Consistent behaviour patterns and intrapersonal processes originating within the individual
- Interpersonal (relationship with the environment & others) vs intrapersonal (relationship with
yourself)
Approaches (6)
1. Psychodynamic: argue that people’s unconscious minds are largely responsible for important
differences in their behaviour styles
2. Trait: identify where a person might lie along a continuum of various personality characteristics
3. Biological: inherited predispositions & physiological processes to explain individual differences
4. Humanistic: identify personal responsibility & feelings of self acceptance as the key causes of
differences
5. behavioural/social learning: consistent behaviour patterns as the result of conditioning &
expectations
6. cognitive: looks at differences in the way people process info to explain differences
Explorations (3)
1. genetic vs environment
2. unconscious vs conscious of choices
3. determinism vs free will
Application
- psychotherapy: psychoanalytic, humanistic & cognitive therapists, and behaviourists
- also by psychologists working in educational, organizational and counselling settings
Assessment
- self-report (most popular)
- projective tests (psychoanalytic)
- observation (behavioural)
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