PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness, Trait Theory

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: Caleb Owens

Document Summary

All humans need to be loved a general, universal law about human psychology. Idiographic focus what makes each one of us different or. Idios greek work meaning one"s own", just belonging to you personally" etc. Aims to account for a person"s uniqueness. If all you do is focus on individual will miss the similarities between others: theories try to describe uniqueness and individuality within general laws of human behavior, e. g. Four broad fundamental approaches to personality theory all approaches alive & well in psychology: psychoanalytic/psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic/phenomenological/existential, dispositional. With each approach, there are many different theories but what is a theory, and. What does it do/what is its function: a theory is a system of statetements, and like any statements the statement states what the theorist believes to be true, e. g. Evaluating theories: conceptually, analysis of concepts, arguments, definitions and assumptions (refer to reading) influence theory which in turn influence the research hypothesis, testing whether or not these are coherent!