PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pigeonholing, Personality Psychology, Social Learning Theory
6 Sep 2013
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Psychology is about the precise manipulation of independent variables for the furtherance of compelling theoretical accounts of well-specified phenomena: eg/ how many milliseconds does it take to find a circle in a field of squares. Psychological triad the combination of how people think, feel and behave. Personality an individuals characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour, together with the psychological mechanisms (hidden or not) behind those patterns. The mission to understand everything about a person at once is impossible. Choose to limit what you"re looking at search for specific patterns, way of tying together different kinds of observations, certain kinds of patterns and certain ways of thinking about these patterns. Trait approach focus on the ways that people differ psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized and measured. Biological approach understand the mind in terms of the body; address biological mechanisms (such as anatomy, physiology, genetics, evolution) and their relevance for personality.
