PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Learning Theory, Humanistic Psychology, Unconscious Mind
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Personality psych addresses how people feel, think and behave; the psychological triad. Personality psych solves questions about internal consistency and self-knowledge. Personality psych is diff from clinical psychology but the two overlap: both try to understand the whole person not parts. Perso(cid:374)ality refers to a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) patter(cid:374)s of thought, e(cid:373)otio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns. Gotta limit what you look at, by searching for specific patterns. Diff approaches to personality are portrayed as competitors.
