PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Consistency, Personality Psychology, Personality Development

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 505
• Professor: Paul Brunet

Document Summary

Henry murray: an individual"s personality is an abstraction formulated by the theorist and not merely a description of the individual"s behaviour. An individual"s personality refers to a series of events that ideally span the person"s lifetime. (snapshot won"t give you personality) Pervin: personality is the complex organization of cognitions, affects, and behaviours that gives direction and pattern to the person"s life. Like the body, personality consists of both structures and processes and reflects both nature and nurture. In addition, personality includes the effects of the past. Magnavita: personality is an individual"s habitual way of thinking, feeling, perceiving and reacting to the world. Funder: personality is an individuals characteristic pattern of thought, emotion, and behaviour together with the psychological mechanisms hidden or not behind those patterns. Catell: personality is that which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situation, it is concerned with all the behaviour of the individual both overt and under the skin.