PSY 505 Lecture 1: 1. Studying Personality
17 May 2016
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Your personality can limit or expand your options and choices. It has already shaped your experiences and will continue to do so. We judge and are judged by our personality. The subject of personality is too complex for a simplified description. Humans are too complex and changeable in different situations and with different people. A widely used personality test, the adjective checklist, offers an astonishing 300 adjectives to describe personality. The place of personality in the history of psychology. The birth of psychology took place in the late 19th century in germany and was largely the work of wilhelm wundt, who established psychology"s first laboratory in. The new science of psychology focused on the analysis of conscious experience into its elemental parts, a mothod borrowed from the natural sciences, which reduced all matter to its basic elements in order to analyze them.
