PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Reality Principle, Dependent And Independent Variables, Erogenous Zone
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Introduce you to scientific study of the whole person in biological, social and cultural context. General, internal and comparative dispositions accounting for consistencies we perceive or expect in behaviour across situations and time. Adaptation to motivational, cognitive, and developmental challenges that people confront across the life span. Level iii: life stories integrating a life and the self. Internalized evolving narratives of that integrate past, present and future to provide life with a sense of unity and purpose. We are products of the evolutionary process . Explicity defined constructs starts with unsystematic observation categorize into a concept!, explanatory variable, Linked by correspondence rules - correspondence is relation to 2 constructs. Specifying testable hypotheses once you get enough stable data patterns. Non-scientific theories: astrology, palmistry (hand-reading), our implicit personality theories. Might not be observable personal health (physical, emotional, spiritual) Desiderata for a theory of personality standard for a theory (ordered by fournier)
