PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Estj, Infp, Birthmark
12 Oct 2016
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Someone you know: jenny (roommate), 5 words: tolerant, fun, likes grey"s anatomy, good student, californian. 5 words to describe bradley: lecturer, psychology, person, male, seems nice. 3 central components: traits (temperament, character, values, states (emotional/mental, more eeting than a trait, covert, acts (activities and behavior) Other categories: physical appearance (tall, red-haired, has a birthmark, social efforts and evaluations (boring, talkative, audacious, special talents and skills (plays basketball, high iq) Personality: study of the characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in an individual over time and across circumstances) We use personality to explain how others are in certain settings, and to predict how people will act in the future. Early theories about personality: freud model of id (base desires), ego (negotiator between desire and conscience), superego (conscience, carl jung extraversion vs introversion archetypes. Personal unconscious=experience unique to each individual, collective experience=more overarching across humanity.
