PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Julian Rotter, Cognitive Revolution, Personality Psychology
6 Feb 2018
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Chapter 1 learning objectives: definition of personality. In pre-modern society there was no stepping out of one(cid:495)s community and one(cid:495)s roles to act differently. Roles determined who you were. years ago the notion of (cid:498)seeking to understand the individual became a highly cherished cultural project(cid:499). There are more than one way to answer these questions. Book provides introduction to the scientific study of personality. Heredity, environment or some combination of the two: scientific study of personality attempts to predict, control and explain individual differences. The nature of personality psychology: personality psychology is at crossroads with other fields of psychology (ex. developmental, abnormal, social) Defining personality: the unique, dynamic organization of characteristics of a particular person, physical and psychological, which influence behavior and responses to the social and physical environment. Of these characteristics, some will be entirely unique to the specific person (i. e. memories, habits, mannerisms) and others will be shared with a few, many or all people.
