PSY 3303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Extraversion And Introversion, Data Analysis, Job Performance
23 Apr 2016
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Chapter 15 assessing personality theory and research. Primary difference in personality theories: qualitatively different units of analysis. Psychodynamic: conscious and unconscious mental systems that conflict with one another. Trait theory (especially big 5 and 5-factor): dispositional tendencies overt tendencies to perform actions and have emotional experiences: don"t discuss mental conflict, don"t infer mental systems. Behaviourism: persons possess different response strengths as a result of their history of. Cc and oc: don"t infer trait structures or psychodynamic structures. Social cognitive: emphasized conscious thinking processes, enduring beliefs about the self, and social contexts in which beliefs develop and function: structural variables of theories of rogers, kelly, bandura, and mischel were similar. Theories also differ in how abstract their structures are. Least abstract structure is the major structural unit used by learning theorists to describe behaviour: the response: observable behaviour of the organism. Structures in psychoanalytic theory (id, ego, superego) are even more abstract and present problems in measurement.
