PSYC 2310H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psychoanalytic Theory, Internal Consistency, Crucial Conflict
2 Feb 2018
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Why study personality: personality psychology addresses the whole integrated, coherent, unique individual, personality theories are part of the intellectual tradition of the past century. Defining personality: the field of personality addresses three issues that are difficult to reconcile, human universals. Answering questions about persons scientifically structure stable, enduring aspects of personality: qualities that endure from day to day and from year to year the building blocks of personality theory. Personality not merely a physical system people construct and respond to, meaning there is no guarantee that the traditional scienfitic procedures of breaking a system into consituent parts will be sufficient to undress. It helps people to generate new knowledge about the topics they recognize as important to their ****not. The challenge of constructing a personality theory theorists must pursue a challenging set of scientific goals that go beyond intuition. Address a broad set of what, how and why questions about personality structure.
