PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychodynamics, Personality Psychology, Falsifiability
Lecture 5
03 October 2017
11:28
Psychology Behind Personality
What is personality: a construct that explains the differences in the way people act, speak and
perceive their world
His definition:
1. dynamic organisation, inside a person, of psychological systems that create the
persons characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings
2. Coherent manner of interacting with oneself and with one's environment . How the
person affects/is affected by both situational and behavioural variables
Personality psychology
Academic personality psychology - the 20th century
Intelligence testing and applied needs
oPersonality traits - predictors of occupational and educational success?
oConscientiousness - better at most jobs, even with a lower IQ
o higher IQ did correlate better at most jobs
"character" and "personality"
Psychodynamic theory preceded academic personality psychology
Aims of personality psychology
To create and test theories that try to explain
oWhy people differ from one another
oWhat is the underlying organisation of personality
To measure personality
oHow individuals differ from each other
oBig 5
oFreud
Theories of personality
Theory
oA system of propositions that attempts to explain as specific phenomenon or
phenomena
Four main broad theories (paradigms) of personality
oTrait
oSocial-cognitive
oPsychodynamic
oPhenomenological
A good theory needs to be falsifiable:
oShould be able to be disproved
oSocial cognitive offer mostly testable hypothesis theories often do not
oForer (Barnum) effect
Participants completed a personality test
Rated highly that the test successfully predicted their personality
oItem examples
Self-critical
Need for admiration
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Document Summary
What is personality: a construct that explains the differences in the way people act, speak and perceive their world. 1. dynamic organisation, inside a person, of psychological systems that create the persons characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings. Coherent manner of interacting with oneself and with one"s environment . How the person affects/is affected by both situational and behavioural variables. Academic personality psychology - the 20th century. Intelligence testing and applied needs o o o. Conscientiousness - better at most jobs, even with a lower iq higher iq did correlate better at most jobs. To create and test theories that try to explain: why people differ from one another, what is the underlying organisation of personality. To measure personality: how individuals differ from each other o o. Theory: a system of propositions that attempts to explain as specific phenomenon or phenomena. Four main broad theories (paradigms) of personality o o o o.
