PSYCO333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pigeonholing, Gilmore Girls, Personality Psychology
2 Feb 2018
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Chapter 2- methods in the study of personality. *great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and surprisingly often, the opposite is true as well. Applies to fields of research, theories, and individual people. Personality ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455)"s (cid:271)(cid:396)oad (cid:373)a(cid:374)date to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t fo(cid:396) the ps(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) of the (cid:449)hole pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:396)eal-life concerns. Personality is coherent, and each part stems from and depends on the others. Pigeonholing is any process that attempts to classify disparate entities into a small number of categories (usually, mutually exclusive ones) Personality psychology tends to emphasize how individuals are different from one another: critics say personality psychology pigeonholes people. Often entails categorizing and labelling people, but it also leads the field to be extraordinarily sensitive to the fact that people really are different. *there are no perfect indicators of personality; there are only clues, and clues are always ambiguous. *something beats nothing, 2 times out of 3.
