Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Authoritarian Personality, Theistic Evolution, Theophrastus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: Catharine Hondzel

Document Summary

Personality psychologists avoid abstract philosophical or religious musings and focus on thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of real people. Personality psychology scientific study of psychological forces hat make people uniquely human: their goal is to find and describe individual differences between people that are psychologically meaningful and relatively stable. We say relative, because we cant be stable in all our traits. We have to be flexible and adaptable to meet the demands of society. Personality shifts- for ex. , dinner with parents is different than dinner with friends. Can change with your mood but does not permanently shift. Personality a person"s pattern of psychological process arising from feelings, thoughts and other areas of psych. It is expressed through its influence on the body, conscious mental life and though their social behaviour. (mayer, 2005) If a person"s behaviour changes frequently, it may not be indicative of personality. Sometimes the change in the person"s behaviour can also be meaningful of personality.