PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Toothpaste, Extraversion And Introversion, Ibm Officevision

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Oliver Michael Hardt

Document Summary

Personality disorders: began with looking as toothpaste such a simple thing can also dictate personality, defining personality: Stable way of thinking, feeling and acting. Problematic because this is all the definition is. What personality? (none of the listed below are personality) Ex: prof"s introversion is a trait he"s not introverted at gym(because demand is low) but introverted in other situations (he"s in front of the class because situation demands it) Reification: when you take abstract construct and treat it like it"s real. Like prof just talked about introversion like it is real. Many disorders are not real its not tangible. On one hand depression is very real (because people suffer from it) But also not real (because you need to have some symptoms that are decided randomly shape of depression is subjective) Depression changes by only tweaking one symptom (constructs are real but can change at any given time no real boundaries)