PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Personality Disorder, Testability
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People"s traits change over the course of time and the initial observation. It"s difficult to generalize information about a person when you"ve seen them just in one. Personality psychology: study of the whole person. Psychology is about many things: perception and attention, cognition and memory, neurons and brain circuitry, abnormal behaviour, social behaviour, therapy etc. Goal of personality psychology: study individual differences in people (classify, categorize and organize via biological and environmental forces/factors) Personality psychology: formalizes and systematizes general human effort to know persons. Personality psychologists use traits to determine a person"s individuality. Trait behaviours predict behaviour over time and for different situations. There"s 5 categories of dispositional personality traits (implicated in social behaviour): (ocean) Personality traits: general, internal, and comparative dispositions given to people in our initial. Quantify differences in dispositional traits: self-report questionnaires. After thinking of the general" trait attributions/general dispositional outline we need to look at.
