Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Precession, Extraversion And Introversion, Big5

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Matthew Maxwell

Document Summary

De nition: a set of propositions that is logically organized to explain events, relationships among events, and explain and predict the occurrence of these events. Time spent on social media: historical, foundational theories had very broad focus: Identify and de ne variables: identify the various variables and ideas that may push people to spend time on social media sites. Specify relationships between variables: connect the variables discovered based based on certain aspects. Why are they important: provide narrative/explanation for what drives human behaviour. Provides important: helps psychologists organize knowledge, guide research. Knowledge-creation process is more e ceint, less redundant. *** falsi able: creating a theory can help reduce redundancy in the eld (people doing similar or the same topic, they can be tested, Personality: an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits, personality trait: a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Personality is divided into three structures: id: primitive, instinctive component.