PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Walter Mischel, Personality Psychology, Clinical Psychology

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

At 18 years old koestner hoped he could find out how to in fact "get a personality" -(lol) 18-20 years old was a low point in his life. By the time he was 18 years old he felt like an outcast. Change could be attributed to the challenges one faces as an adolescent--they become more complex, Koestner always believed that the way he behaved, how he came across to other people did not match who he felt he was. Something was being lost in his interactions with other people. He was believed he was funnier, more thoughtful, more interesting than he came across. The course koestner took did not answer any of these questions (it wasn"t fair to have so much expectation from a course but still useless!) The textbook for intro to personality is a classic written by walter mischel argued that there was no such.