PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Juvenile Delinquency, Civil Service, Parental Investment

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Pscy 100 - introduction to psychology - lecture 5: personality. Personality: pattern of thinking and interacting that is unique to each individual and remains relatively consistent over time and across situations. You have a strong need for other people to like and admire you. Although you have some personality weaknesses, you are generally able to compensate for them. At times, you have serious doubts about whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. Explain individual differences how unconscious mental forces interplay with thoughts, feelings, and actions. Relatively stable and consistent characteristics that can be used to describe someone. Lack of remorse, manipulative, impulsive, egocentric, superficial charm, and shallow affect (cleckley, 1941; hare, 1991) Neurological underpinnings: frontal cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex, and the amygdala. Top 10 psychopathic professions: ceos, lawyers, tv/radio media, salespersons, surgeons, journalists, police officer, clergy person, chef, civil servant. How normal people can have theses negative traits and still do great things.