PSYB30H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Personality psychology addresses how people feel, think, and behave (psychological triad) and is closely allied with clinical psychology; is where the rest of psychology comes together (drawing heavily from social/cognitive/developmental/clinical/biological psychology); contributes to each of these subfields. Personality: an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms (hidden or not) behind those patterns. Table 1. 1 basic approaches to personality and their focal topics. Focused on the ways that ppl differ psychologically. Trying to understand the mind in terms of the body. Humanistic psychology (pursues how conscious awareness can produce such uniquely human attributes such as existential anxiety/creativity/free will and tries to understand the meaning/basis of happiness) Learning approach (concentrating on how ppl change their behavior as a result of rewards/ punishments/experiences) Social learning theory (draws inferences about the ways that mental processes such as observation and self-evaluation determine which behaviors are learned and how they are performed)
