PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Conscientiousness, Heritability, First Principle
4 Dec 2012
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Curious, original, intellectual, creative and open to new ideas. Outgoing, talkative, sociable, and enjoys being in social situations. A new big five (mcadams & pals, 2006) New big five ocean big five. Five principles give outline of how to make psychological sense of individual human life: evolution and human nature, dispositional signature (traits, characteristic adaptations, life narratives and modern identity, role of culture. Feels all textbooks falls into these two categories: parade of grand, irreconcilable theories. Textbooks are organized to list theories by such and such psychologist in a broad, non integrative way: research topics and issues. Topic is broken up into discrete ways of doing things comprised of research topics and questions. Personality psychology"s mission: provide an integrative framework for understanding the whole person the whole person includes the uniqueness of each person. Individual differences (like some others: evolution and human nature. First principle: general evolutionary design, human nature.
