PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Testability

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Danay Novoa

Document Summary

Personality traits: characteristics that describe ways in whichpeople are different from each other, average tendencies, help describe people, help explain behaviour, help predict behaviour. The processes of personality: inputs, decision rules, outputs. 3 levels of personality analysis: human nature, individual and group differences, individual uniqueness. Human nature: how we are like all others , traits and mechanisms of personality that are typical of our species and possessed by nearly everyone, language, need to belong. Individual uniqueness: how we are like no others , individual uniqueness refers to the fact that every individual has personal and unique qualities not shared by any other person in the world, individuals can be studied nomothetically or ideographically. Contemporary research: most current personality research addresses ways in which individuals and groups differ, not human universals, personality psychologists specialize in a particular domain, such as biological aspects of personality or how culture impacts personality. Six domains of knowledge: dispositional, biological, intrapsychic, cognitive-experiential, social and cultural, adjustment.