PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Susan Cain, Personality Psychology, Adaptation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

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[ buy the book quiet by susan cain for the 15% optional paper] Why take an introduction to personality course? (1) (2) You belong to a brainy and social species. Humans have evolved to be like this, the brainy-ness evolves because we have a complex social organization where we live. The brain is primed to take in info about other people and to do so in a systematic way (3) You are probably at an age that highlights the importance of making accurate personality assessments. If you ask people about their past/narrative memories, a large percentage of the memories they have are from the ages of 16 to 25. There"s something important and consequential about the age we"re at now. It"s the age at which we start making important decisions [friends, field of study, romantic partners] Because we"re making all of these important decisions, it"s really important to have a way to organize our personality assessments.