[01:830:338] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (27 pages long!)

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:338
• Professor: Professor Lyra Stein

Document Summary

The goals of personality psychology: personality refers to an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms hidden or not behind those patterns, they assemble an integrated view of whole, functioning individuals in heir daily environments. Personality data: funder"s second law: there are no perfect indicators of personality; there are only clues, and clues are always ambiguous, funder"s third law: something beats nothing, two times out of three. Four kinds of clues: four types of clues s, i, l, and b data. B data disadvantages: difficult and expensive, experience sampling methods require major efforts to recruit, instruct, and motivate research participants, may also need expensive equipment, uncertain interpretation, appearances are often ambiguous or misleading. Mixed types of data: behavioroid a hybrid between b data and s data (in which participants report what they think they would do under various circumstances)