PSY 309 Study Guide - Final Guide: Joseph E. Ledoux, B. F. Skinner, Endocrine System
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An individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms-hidden or not-behind those patterns. Unique, relatively stable pattern: mind, biological approach- believes us to be as a consequence of our genetics and physiology, psychoanalytic approach- Getting to know someone by observing the number of calls they make or the number of parties they attend a. ii. Physiological measures: blood pressure, heart rate: l data- the results or indirect measures of people"s actions or attitudes or outcomes * obtaining verifiable, concrete information about the person that may relate to personality b. i. Voting behavior; arrests: i (informant) data- judgements by knowledgeable, well acquainted others". Walter mischel argued that we can only predict someone"s behavior so well. (up to . 40 correlation) Both personality assessment and people"s attempts to predict others behavior is fundamentally flawed c. c. i. Surface traits: defines as a cluster of behaviors c. ii. Situationism that may somehow fit , such as dependable .
