PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Attachment Theory, Object Relations Theory, Neuroanatomy
23 May 2017
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Chapter one - the study of the person. Psychology is about the precise manipulation of independent variables for the furtherance of compelling theoretical accounts of well-specified phenomena. The study of personality comes close to what non-psychologists intuitively expect psychology to be, and addresses the topics most people want to know about. Personality psychology addresses how people feel, think, and behave. The three essential topics of psychology - how people think, how they feel, and how they behave. Personality psychology is not the same as clinical psychology, but the two subfields do overlap; when patterns of personality are extreme, unusual, and cause problems, the two subfields come together in the study of personality disorders. Clinical and personality psychology share the obligation to try to understand whole persons, not just parts of persons, one individual at a time. The mission of personality psychology is to explain whole persons. o.
