PSYC 2P25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality And Individual Differences, Determinism, Trait Theory
12 Jun 2016
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Not a common definition agreed upon agreement among. Differences in psychological characteristics: behaving, thinking, and feeling. Personality opinion survey: define personality, what are some characteristics of people you know that give them their personality? o o. Open/abstract thinking: define normal ( healthy ) behavior, what the majority is doing/ how the majority behaves, when you first meet people, how do you characterize them and decide how to act around them? o. Trait theory is the up and coming for research, not so much for therapy. Carl younge, freud, etc. still important in therapy even though not so much him research. Try to understand each individual"s complex, unique features. Used in writing (biography, even fiction for characters) Takes too much time for comparison and correlations. Could study someone for years and still not fully know them. Try to understand all people in terms of specific personality variables . Describe someone of where they sit on specific variables. o.
