PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Inter-Rater Reliability, Open Data Protocol, Behavioural Genetics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Personality= the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations to the intrapsychic, physical, and social environments. Aka definition: psychological traits/mechanisms, are within an individual, are organized and endure (consistent and can stand the test of time, that influence actions of the individual, can adapt to the environments (intrapsychic, physical and social) 3 levels of personality: human nature level of analysis (like all others, group differences level of analysis (like some others) Individual uniqueness level of analysis (like no other) Is a gap between grand theories of personality (human nature) and contemporary research in personality (group/individual levels: these can be solved with the domains of knowledge. 6 domains of knowledge: dispositional domain, deals with the ways in which individuals differ from one another. Interested in the # and nature of fundamental propositions.