PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Defence Mechanisms, Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Personality: a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively constant over time and situations. Idiographic approach: focusing on creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristic. Helpful for understanding yourself and the social world, and can be applied to full range of human experience to anyone. Nomothetic approach: examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure, to understand the factors that predict certain behaviours across people in general. Dr. gordon flett at york university examined personality predictors of alcohol, drug use, and depression in university students. Dr. lawrence walker from university of british columbia has sought to identify the moral personality, seeking the personality factors that predict courage and heroism. Dr. jacob hirsh at the rotman school of management in toronto has examined the personality predictors of pro-environmental motivations.