Psychology 3301F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Walter Mischel, Validity Scale, Clinical Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3301F/G
• Professor: Kim Dossett

Document Summary

Intro: we seek patterns in behaviours, generate hypotheses about why those patterns occur, make inferences about other personal characteristics and predict future behaviours based on these patterns. Personality traits = tendency to consistently behave in a specific way: personality theorists work to examine the influences of genetics and life experience on the development of traits. Projective personality tests = tests requiring drawings or a response to ambiguous stimuli, based on the assumption that responses reveal info about personality structure. Substantial evidence for the existence of conscious suppression: however fails to accomplish goal. Psych research has established that a lot on non conscious processing occurs but according to wilson and. Dunn this processing is largely related to matters of perception, attention, learning and automatic judgements: wilson and dunn suggested that we could learn much about ourselves by attending to how others view us.