[PSYCH 2B03] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 61 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Theories difficult to test: postdictive, not predictive, vague, abstract concepts. Whatever makes for consistency in our behaviour. Whatever is responsible for individual differences in behaviour. There are many different steps to researching the relationship of certain personalities and often how they interact for a certain person is different for the next person with how it shapes them as an individual. There are 7 different perspectives on personality, which are in many ways different from one another yet still sometimes overlap in ideas of how they work and what results they produce. Type approach: limited number of distinct personality types, emphasis on biological bases of personality, oldest approach, the four humors. Trait approach: personality = internal characteristics and tendencies, emphasis on biological factors, say little about development. Psychodynamic approach: personality = action & interaction of psychic structure, behaviour = interaction between biology and experience, says much about development, freud developed this approach.
