PSYO 3280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Barnum Effect, Social Science, Robert Sternberg
14 Jan 2016
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Type a people are characterized by speed, impatience, and aggressive. Personality research is guided by three main goals or objectives: 1. To describe personality differences as completely as possible. How are these features related and to what degree are: 2. To make predictions about personality in the future based on what is currently known about personality. Personality goals from an idiographic vs. nomothetic perspective. Allport alluded to the important distinction he first made in 1937 between the idiographic and nomothetic approach to studying personality: much of personality research is focused on the nomothetic approach. The nomothetic approach involves gathering a small amount of data from a relatively large sample in the hopes of identifying general laws or principles. The nomothetic approach can be regarded as a variable-centred approach that may tell us, for instance, whether one variable relates to another variable.
